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[ramirezframing]

One of the silkie youngsters without a tail



One with a tail and the one without the tail. Might give you an idea to what a silkied araucana would look like.

 

[smoothmule]

One of the silkie youngsters without a tail



One with a tail and the one without the tail. Might give you an idea to what a silkied araucana would look like.

That is just adorable, lol.

 

[yaya1215]

Does anyone have a good picture of a khaki/mauve Orpington Rooster? Tried Google images and haven't found anything close up to see details...


Action shot - had to catch her on the move, and her tail is just growing in, but she is out of a 100% imported black split to chocolate rooster over a blue hen ( hatched out one black pullet, one chocolate pullet and this one). She is almost 5 mo. and her color does not convey, but she is mauve/khaki for sure. Raising up some imported chocolate p's and k's to breed to splash and see if i can't get a k that would be as nicely laced, just not a genetics expert...

 

[nicalandia]

so far I havent seen any, seems that since is stilla a project and producing a good male is harder than females, you see all you have to do is to mate a choc male to a blue female... mating the blue colored males that carry choc(recessive) with the Mauve hens would produce alot of different colored males(blue, mauve, choc, black) would be best to breed them back to choc females..

 

[smoothmule]

One of the silkie youngsters without a tail



One with a tail and the one without the tail. Might give you an idea to what a silkied araucana would look like.

I have hatched the start for my chocolate silkied Araucana's. No chocolate chicks but some of the cockerels may carry chocolate as one of the hens was. I can add chocolate later too with all the chocolate chicks (all rumpless) that I hatched this year. I hatched blue, splash and black chicks and waiting to see which will be silkied in this group. Both parents carry silkied so some of them should be silkied, not all though.
Here are the chicks hatched, a couple do have a clean face, hoping those to be silkied and cockerels as that would be an increased chance they are from the chocolate hen since she is clean faced. Seems reasonable anyway. Nice large healthy chicks.



This is one of the Silkied Ameraucana's that is part of the Silkied project that began with a single mutation in an Ameraucana hen. They are making them in chocolate too, I am taking this project to my Araucana's and will make them in Chocolate and Black, maybe Dun as well because I have large fowl Dun chicks now that are rumpless too.
Isn't she adorable! Picture this with a clean face/tufts/rumpless and in chocolate.

 

[ramirezframing]

I have hatched the start for my chocolate silkied Araucana's. No chocolate chicks but some of the cockerels may carry chocolate as one of the hens was. I can add chocolate later too with all the chocolate chicks (all rumpless) that I hatched this year. I hatched blue, splash and black chicks and waiting to see which will be silkied in this group. Both parents carry silkied so some of them should be silkied, not all though.
Here are the chicks hatched, a couple do have a clean face, hoping those to be silkied and cockerels as that would be an increased chance they are from the chocolate hen since she is clean faced. Seems reasonable anyway. Nice large healthy chicks.



This is one of the Silkied Ameraucana's that is part of the Silkied project that began with a single mutation in an Ameraucana hen. They are making them in chocolate too, I am taking this project to my Araucana's and will make them in Chocolate and Black, maybe Dun as well because I have large fowl Dun chicks now that are rumpless too.
Isn't she adorable! Picture this with a clean face/tufts/rumpless and in chocolate.

I want to see the tuft in silkie. Outta my cross of a silkie hen to a clean faced araucana male, I only came up with one that had tufts. He had some nice tufts considering his dad was clean faced. Unfortunately he was one of the many I lost last summer to a bad chicken sitter before I could get any babies from him.

 

[smoothmule]

I want to see the tuft in silkie. Outta my cross of a silkie hen to a clean faced araucana male, I only came up with one that had tufts. He had some nice tufts considering his dad was clean faced. Unfortunately he was one of the many I lost last summer to a bad chicken sitter before I could get any babies from him.

I do as well. I picture them being a little bit like either a limp pony tail (like a little girl's ponytails) or fluffy but betting they will be limp looking. A Silkied Araucana will never meet any SOP for Araucana so if they turn out well, I'll give them a name to go by.
Nice tufts there

Here is one of my recently hatched Araucana chicks, looks to be a pullet. My black Araucana's have come along so well and my black Araucana's being the best they can be what makes my chocolates and duns great too.

 

[ramirezframing]

Cute chick, mine never looked like that as a chick. Just all of a sudden there was a water buffalo walking in among the chicks

 

[smoothmule]

Cute chick, mine never looked like that as a chick. Just all of a sudden there was a water buffalo walking in among the chicks

Is that the roo mixed with Silkie then? The crest is funky cool
My Araucana's are a purebred black pen then all the projects that I can use the blacks to help along.

 

[ramirezframing]

The rooster in the above pictures is a cross of a silkie hen and a clean faced araucana rooster. My parents had some araucana hens, but we couldn't ever get anything to hatch. So they sold off two pairs and kept a few of the bigger roosters for projects.