Silkie barred rock cross

[polishcourt]

Let me start off by saying I am no expert or even novice of chicken breeding or genetics just have a mixed flock with hens that love to go broody and a love for raising chicks up to adulthood and getting those first laid eggs!!

I have a buff silkie his name is Hulk Hogan I have hatched out several cochin crosses from him that have turned out so beautiful i have a barred rock hen and I really really want a bird with silkie feathers that has the barring can anyone tell me if I can get there with the barred hen and buff rooster

Thanks

Courtney Hogue

 

[polishcourt]

Had to brag a little with this pic of the barred rock and first set of chicks she raised before we got Hulk

 

[donrae]

You could get there, but it's going to take several generations. If you had a barred rooster and a silkie hen it would go faster.

Color first....Your buff rooster over your barred hen will give you sex linked chicks. Males will be barred, females won't. If you breed the offspring together, you'll get half barred chicks and half solid, regardless of gender. Then breed those barred females to the barred males and keep breeding barred birds together.

Silkie feathering.....it's recessive. Meaning, your first generation will all be regular feathered, but have the recessive gene for silkie. When you breed that first generation together, 25% of the birds will come out with silkie feathers, 50% will be regular but have the recessive silkie gene, and 25% will be regular with no recessive gene. You won't know which of the regular feathered birds have the recessive silkie gene until you then try breeding them.......it would be quite a project.

 

[regalado70]

I know this is an old post but I'm curious about how it worked out. I'm thinking of trying the cross breed. I have both barred and silkie hen and roosters. My silkies are white there is one brown. I have 3 barred roos but they look like beast compared to the silkie ladies and the brown being the smallest

 

[speckledhen]

I used to have a trio of hens, whose brother I sold. Their sire was a Cochin/Silkie and their mothers were BRs.
I called them the Poufy Head Sisters, greatest little hens I ever had, I think. I don't like Silkies, but these had the modified pouf and only one had a feather stub on one leg, all normal feathering and yellow skin. The brother, being sex linked was barred with a pouf. If the father had been the BR, all would have been barred, not just the male. The hens were solid black when adults.

Adult hens looked like this:

 

[regalado70]

Thanks think I'm going with the barred boy with silkie girls. Also thinking about Cochin or Brahma. I have a silkie mixed with easter egger she is a pretty girl

 

[Australorpe]

Bardrock rooster blue silkie hen cross

 

[Beverfly]

I know this is an old thread but here is my Barred Rock rooster x Buff Silkie Bantam hen offspring, a handsome little cockerel.

 

[ParadisedivaChic]

I know this is an old thread but here is my Barred Rock rooster x Buff Silkie Bantam hen offspring, a handsome little cockerel. View attachment 2172229

Beautiful Roo! I’m hoping to do the same this summer!

 

[farmeroakly]

Let me start off by saying I am no expert or even novice of chicken breeding or genetics just have a mixed flock with hens that love to go broody and a love for raising chicks up to adulthood and getting those first laid eggs!!

I have a buff silkie his name is Hulk Hogan I have hatched out several cochin crosses from him that have turned out so beautiful i have a barred rock hen and I really really want a bird with silkie feathers that has the barring can anyone tell me if I can get there with the barred hen and buff rooster

Thanks

Courtney Hogue

This is my experiment. I was taught by and older breeder some chicken genetics and how to sex eggs for selection before setting and it works. I took a more rounded blunt white silkie egg. I only have 2 white silkies and 20 barred rock hens and 1 barred rock rooster 3rd generation selected for size. So silkie was crossed with barred rock. I wanted another sikie cause I dont use incubators and they will hatch any egg they can fit on. But I wanted to see if barred rock color and pattern would be passed on by big boy. Yes yes yes. This is her at 6 weeks. Tail feathers started in at 8 days as a pullet does. Roos take 8 to 10 weeks to start. If you look close you can see fluffy neck feathers starting and she has a little tuff on head starting. Heres where an illusion comes in. The pattern is black/ scalloped bars but feathers are getting longer and silkie! And i can hatch a roo cause I have white silkie cockeral eggs on occasion! Roo eggs are a bit broader at wide end not much but pointy on narrorow end. Pullet egg on left cockeral egg on right. Photo of pullet to follow as she fets about 6 months old. Will be interesting to see how illusion changes with length.