Show us your silkie mixes!!

[Clodill4rel]

I love her color! She is precious

That's so cool! They do look like full silkie!

Yeh I was showing my husband and they look full silky to us

 

[Clodill4rel]

I have a few Silkie mixes as well! One Silkie x Easter-egger and several Silkie x Cochin bantams. My Cochin bantams are silkied so the Silkie mixes from them have silkied feathering as well and have been confused for poor quality Silkies.

Ganymede is the Easter-egger mix. She's a grouch, especially right now because she's broody AGAIN.

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The Silkie x Cochin mixes, Peanut Butter, Amaretto, Armada, and Gluttony. Their brothers have been buttheads so I haven't kept any of them.

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Can you show us the parents of this beautiful white buff colored EE mix?

 

[Clodill4rel]

Mind if I start this back up? Here are penny and nickel! They are EE/silkieView attachment 3263556View attachment 3263557

How did u get this barring on a female silky mix? Beautiful !!!

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

How did u get this barring on a female silky mix? Beautiful !!!

Well I don't know I bought her from somebody but I'm assuming it was a barred silky rooster over a Easter egger hen. Thanks

 

[Clodill4rel]

Well I don't know I bought her from somebody but I'm assuming it was a barred silky rooster over a Easter egger hen. Thanks

From my understanding it would have to have been a barred Roo silky mix with a barred female silky mix…. To get a barred female silky mix. Correct me if I am wrong….. but u can’t get a barred female unless u have both barred. Someone told me about my mix I hatched and they were correct about it. I did a barred female not silky tho with a lavender olive egger Roo….. and got one male and one female… the male came out barred so sex linked with a dot on his head and the female came out all black no dot. I think with yours she could give you sex linked chicks! If u bread her with a non barred male… Males having barring and white dot on head!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Can you show us the parents of this beautiful white buff colored EE mix?

You mean Ganymede? Her father is Winter, seen in this post:

Her mother was Maggie, who passed away from old age almost a year ago now. She was about 10 and a half years old.

From my understanding it would have to have been a barred Roo silky mix with a barred female silky mix…. To get a barred female silky mix. Correct me if I am wrong….. but u can’t get a barred female unless u have both barred. Someone told me about my mix I hatched and they were correct about it. I did a barred female not silky tho with a lavender olive egger Roo….. and got one male and one female… the male came out barred so sex linked with a dot on his head and the female came out all black no dot. I think with yours she could give you sex linked chicks! If u bread her with a non barred male… Males having barring and white dot on head!

Barring is a sexlinked gene, which means that a female cannot pass it to her daughters, only to her sons. If the father is barred, he can pass it to either his sons or his daughters. So only the father would need to be barred to make a barred hen like the one that was posted. A non-barred male bred to a barred female makes sexlinks because of this. Since barring shows up in chick down as a white spot on the head, and only the males can inherit the gene in such a cross, you automatically know that all chicks with a head spot are male.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

From my understanding it would have to have been a barred Roo silky mix with a barred female silky mix…. To get a barred female silky mix. Correct me if I am wrong….. but u can’t get a barred female unless u have both barred. Someone told me about my mix I hatched and they were correct about it. I did a barred female not silky tho with a lavender olive egger Roo….. and got one male and one female… the male came out barred so sex linked with a dot on his head and the female came out all black no dot. I think with yours she could give you sex linked chicks! If u bread her with a non barred male… Males having barring and white dot on head!

If you breed male barred with female non barred you get female barred chicks and non barred male chicks. If you breed barred female with non barred male you get barred male chicks and non barred female chicks. I just put her eggs in the 'bator so I will get barred male chicks and non barred female

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

If you breed male barred with female non barred you get female barred chicks and non barred male chicks.

Not true, a male passes the gene on to either male or female offspring, so you'll get all barred offspring if he has two copies of the gene, or if he has just one copy, half barred, half not barred, not selective of sex.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Not true, a male passes the gene on to either male or female offspring, so you'll get all barred offspring if he has two copies of the gene, or if he has just one copy, half barred, half not barred, not selective of sex.

Oh, sorry, thank you!!!

 

[Clodill4rel]

You mean Ganymede? Her father is Winter, seen in this post:



Her mother was Maggie, who passed away from old age almost a year ago now. She was about 10 and a half years old.

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Barring is a sexlinked gene, which means that a female cannot pass it to her daughters, only to her sons. If the father is barred, he can pass it to either his sons or his daughters. So only the father would need to be barred to make a barred hen like the one that was posted. A non-barred male bred to a barred female makes sexlinks because of this. Since barring shows up in chick down as a white spot on the head, and only the males can inherit the gene in such a cross, you automatically know that all chicks with a head spot are male.

Awhhhhhhh she’s pretty !!! And what a stunning mix they made together. Sorry for the loss of her thankfully u got her babies tho ; )