Pictures of what I think is my Buff Silkie Bantam

[pattee]

But not a fluff ball like Silkies are ~ right?

 

[bangor777]

She's a beautiful girl! Enjoy her and get yourself another silkie chick TOO. I wish you lived closer, I would share one of mine!

 

[Mr. Ree]

No, but you shouldnt expect something like you see alot of members have. They have breeder or show quality bloodlines and their Silkies might look a little different than others. But she wont look like a Silkie is suppost to, she will only have silkie feathering. She is still very cute!


~Casey

 

[pattee]

Hi All ~

I did go out and check my cross/pet/silkie girl and yes she has 4 toes! And her skin isn't quite black but is very very close. I'm just waiting and hoping to see her grow! Fuzzy!

 

[wclawrence]

Pattee,
The little chick looks cool! I like buff, I like black skin (she does have the genetics for it I can tell from the pictures), I like peacombs (she has that) I like four toes instead of 5, I like a clean face, no beard, muff, crest.

I would like to have a bird like that. Count yourself lucky.

I have actually been looking for a bird like that to cross to one of my phoenix roosters.

Congrats on a beautiful bird!

by the way she looks to me like she has the 'hookless' gene responsible for the silkie feathering.

 

[priszilla]

none of my F1 ( first generation) silkie crosses have been silkie feathered or so far have any of the F2's- I am not an expert- just doing a little experiment.I hope to have F3's in the Spring. I would guess you have a pet quality buff (or partridge- by looking at the wings-some black there).In the buffs I have seen the black color is less doiminant and the skin tends to be washed out -willow to slate.Not a terrible thing- just not a show quality chicken.As for toes- even GOOD quality silkies sometimes produce chicks with the wrong number of toes. It happens.

 

[silkie-mom]

I'm thinking this is a MALE silkie cross.
Will be a pretty bird.

 

[LilPeeps]

Quote:
F1 silkie crosses wouldn't be silkie feathered because it's a recessive gene. For F2, if you're breeding F1 x F1, you would onle get 25% with silkie feathering, 50% smooth, carrying the gene, and 25% not carrying the gene at all. If you bred the F1 to a silkie (or silkie feathered bird), you would get 50% silkie feathered, 50% smooth (with one copy of the gene).