PAINT SILKIES!?!?!

[Loriemarler]

I picked up a cuckoo silkie that someone had returned to a feed store. I thought he was a roo, but "he" laid an egg yesterday. What happens if you combine a cuckoo hen with a paint roo?

I want to know this too

 

[jerryse]

I want to know this too

If the rooster has 2 barring genes you will get 50% cuckoo and 50% cuckoo paint . Males will have 1 barring gene . Females can only have 1 barring gene . If you use cuckoo hens and a black rooster you will get black sex links that can be sexed at hatch . Males will have a white head spot and 1 barring gene .

 

[Loriemarler]

If  the rooster has 2 barring genes you will get 50% cuckoo  and 50% cuckoo paint . Males will have 1 barring gene . Females can only have 1 barring gene . If you use cuckoo hens and a black rooster you will get black sex links that can be sexed at hatch . Males will have a white head spot and 1 barring gene .

So on the paint cuckoo the body color would be white with cuckoo spots showing through?

 

[jerryse]

So on the paint cuckoo the body color would be white with cuckoo spots showing through?

Yes.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

So on the paint cuckoo the body color would be white with cuckoo spots showing through?

That would be awesome. Unfortunately I lost Stan (yes, he ended up being a boy) to a bobcat. I would like another cuckoo silkie roo!

 

[Loriemarler]

Woohoo!! That makes me happy! I have a paint chick in the brooder right now and a trio of cuckoo silkies so regardless of sex I should be able to get a paint cuckoo silkie!!! How cool is that

 

[Mia Sebastian]

I just hatched 10 chicks from a paint pen. 5 are spotted, 4 are white and one black. two of he white ones have pink skin. is this normal? are the white ones going to develop spots?

 

[Mia Sebastian]

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