porcelain silkies! updated with pictures!**

[SilkieTime]

Will it look like this?

 

[Justuschicks]

Here is my porcelain roo. Really want to know what color I should breed him to. Will a porcelain roo produce porcelains if bred to a certain color?

 

[joe17]

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I have no clue but he is gorgeous!

 

[PNWGirl]

Here is my porcelain roo. Really want to know what color I should breed him to. Will a porcelain roo produce porcelains if bred to a certain color?

Here is a great breeding color chart that was posted on the Silkie thread.

Black x black = 100% black
Black x blue = 50% black, 50% blue
Black x splash = 100% blue

Blue x blue = 50% blue, 25% black, 25% splash
Blue x splash = 50% blue, 50% splash

Splash x splash = 100% splash that dilutes over time, need black bred back w/splash

Buff x buff = 100% buff

White x white = 100% white
White x any other color = is unpredictable

Dominant white bred to partridge gives you Red Pyle

Isabelle = breed Lavender to buff, then take chicks and breed back to Lav.

Lavender = lav x lav

Lav x split lav (black w/lav gene) = 50% lav, 50% split

Black lav split is a black bird carrying a recessive Lavender gene


Sheila

 

[Justuschicks]

Wow, thats a great piece of info. If I have a lav split hen that looks a medium blue color but her undercoat is lavender, where is the best pen for her? I have the following BBS, Partridge, Pure porcelain, white, and I will eventually have a cuckoo with both cuckoo and black. I am thinking either the porcelain or BBS. Although Partridge may be interesting. Thoughts Anyone?

 

[RememberTheWay]

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Is porcelain different in silkies than other breeds? True porcelain is lav over mille fleur. Lav X buff would give a lot of off colors diluted by the lav gene, without consistency. What is the goal in silkies?

So far no one has added mottled to the silkies; it is a goal of mine to do that once I have a few more mottled silkies (2 right now that I feel are good enough to call silkies, although one has only 4 toes); more in the works.

The original goal was to breed the isabel colouring into a silkie (at least that is what George first told me when we were standing in an aisle at a show with silkies on one side and porcelain d'uccles on the other) Later he transformed his goal to copying the entire pattern as seen on a porcelain d'uccle. Hence the need to breed in mottling.

Far too many folks call out "PORCELAIN" on their silkies when they only have a small part of the formula. It needs to NOT look splash, and both pigment colours need to be very diluted. Too many folks think that one cross will create the colour, and even without mottle, that is not correct.

It is still a variety very much in the project stage, although there are some superb birds out there that have everything needed except the mottling.

Would love to discuss how to start with these colors. I have a couple Isabel project Silkies that I just acquired and maybe a black split to lavender. I also have some MF d'uccle x Serama mixes. And I have a couple MF bantam Cochins. I'm inclined to use the Cochins over the d'uccles just because they are much lower to the ground in type but I like the color on the d'uccles better. Not sure where to go from here though. Breed the Isabel rooster to the MF d'uccle hens?