Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

[PaintedFeathers]

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[alamb1]

Any comment to my chick I posted a picture of?

 

[chisNchickens]

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MUCH better! I love the boys...

 

[chisNchickens]

Any comment to my chick I posted a picture of?

I was hoping someone else would venture a guess. Do you know what he's out of?

ETA: maybe a lav?

 

[PaintedFeathers]

I was hoping someone else would venture a guess. Do you know what he's out of?

I already responded in the other thread. Probably a splash

 

[alamb1]

I was hoping someone else would venture a guess.  Do you know what he's out of?

The dad is a white roo. Unfortunately he's in with a white hen, blue hen, and a splash hen. I can't tell which egg is which. I know he shouldn't be with all of them and I am in the process of building a coop for the whites.

 

[thedragonlady]

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Much better ! If you'll use baby TALCUM powder, NOT corn starch powder, on those feet while they are still a tiny bit damp, it would help get the rest of that yellow staining out.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Much better ! If you'll use baby TALCUM powder, NOT corn starch powder, on those feet while they are still a tiny bit damp, it would help get the rest of that yellow staining out.

okay =) For some reason I thought I recalled talcum powder turned feathers to mush or something? Or is that something else...

 

[Egg Yolk]

So I have a question... If I breed a Buff and Splash Silkie what would I get? Could I possibly get a purebred splash or purebred buff or something in between???

 

[ChickNmamma]

So I have a question... If I breed a Buff and Splash Silkie what would I get? Could I possibly get a purebred splash or purebred buff or something in between???

The answer is "something in between" and then some.

Since I did extensive research on this because I have a Buff and a Partridge beardless and that's all I have, and I am trying to make nice beardless Partridges - the answer is you would get Smutty Buff and a bunch of messed up colors. Smutty Buff is Buff with black mixed in the Buff - on the wings, tail, sometimes head... Your Smutty Buff would have blue where the smut is instead of black because of the splash. You might get some blue with leakage, you might get some Blue Partridges.. and if they both carry recessive white (like some of mine did) you could get White.

They would all be purebred Silkies - just very poor coloring (except the Whites). If you want to keep nice colors and are not experimenting - stick to the color groups. Buff to Buff and Splash with Blue/Black/Splash. Anything else messes up the colors and you have to work to get them back.