Silkie Cemani cross

[silkiecemani]

I am curious what it takes to create a new breed of chicken.

I am starting a project to cross white silkies with black cemanis.

I will cross my cemani male over silkie hens and my silkie male over the cemani hens, the plan then is to cross back the cemani male offspring to the silkie male and the silkie male offspring to the cemani male, and then breed the resulting offspring with eachother.

Curious if anybody ever tried something like this or has any comments?

Its just for fun and curiousity really, but think results might be interesting.

 

[Amer]

I am curious what it takes to create a new breed of chicken.

I am starting a project to cross white silkies with black cemanis.

I will cross my cemani male over silkie hens and my silkie male over the cemani hens, the plan then is to cross back the cemani male offspring to the silkie male and the silkie male offspring to the cemani male, and then breed the resulting offspring with eachother.

Curious if anybody ever tried something like this or has any comments?

Its just for fun and curiousity really, but think results might be interesting.

What are you looking to achieve?

 

[silkiecemani]

A shiny black cemani body with fluffy silkie head and feet.

Failing that, a cross that can breed and produce consistently similar offspring and beva basis for breeding desired traits.

 

[Sneebsey]

Whilst you will see crests and feathered legs in the F1 offspring, you won't see silkie feathers until your second generation. I'm unsure if I'm reading you correctly, but if you are seeking to have a smooth feathered body with a silkied head, that won't happen due to the nature of the hookless gene; all feathers are affected regardless of location.

I believe that there are smooth-feathered Silkies already being bred as 'Satins', if that is close to your end goal?

 

[ivystone]

I am curious what it takes to create a new breed of chicken.

I am starting a project to cross white silkies with black cemanis.

I will cross my cemani male over silkie hens and my silkie male over the cemani hens, the plan then is to cross back the cemani male offspring to the silkie male and the silkie male offspring to the cemani male, and then breed the resulting offspring with eachother.

Curious if anybody ever tried something like this or has any comments?

Its just for fun and curiousity really, but think results might be interesting.

Mmmm breeding male to male and male to male ??? I don’t think you’ll get anything

 

[Wolfgangcluck]

I am curious what it takes to create a new breed of chicken.

I am starting a project to cross white silkies with black cemanis.

I will cross my cemani male over silkie hens and my silkie male over the cemani hens, the plan then is to cross back the cemani male offspring to the silkie male and the silkie male offspring to the cemani male, and then breed the resulting offspring with eachother.

Curious if anybody ever tried something like this or has any comments?

Its just for fun and curiousity really, but think results might be interesting.

Did you ever do this?! I have to see how it turned out!

 

[gimmie birdies]

I got an egg from an in-law who had NN roosters and silkie hen. the rooster just looks like a barred NN, none of the silkie came into view. but he is still cute. I hoped for a showgirl. This is him right at hatch.

 

[Wolfgangcluck]

Oh how cute! Yes I actually want to try some strippers too. I understand it takes generations to get exactly what you want.

 

[CrazyChickLady64]

Mmmm breeding male to male and male to male ??? I don’t think you’ll get anything

Yeah that's what I thought

 

[tsaiter]

I am curious what it takes to create a new breed of chicken.

I am starting a project to cross white silkies with black cemanis.

I will cross my cemani male over silkie hens and my silkie male over the cemani hens, the plan then is to cross back the cemani male offspring to the silkie male and the silkie male offspring to the cemani male, and then breed the resulting offspring with eachother.

Curious if anybody ever tried something like this or has any comments?

Its just for fun and curiousity really, but think results might be interesting.

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Did you ever do this?! I have to see how it turned out!

I have some with a black silkie hen and a cemani rooster. Some have silkie feathers and some have regular feathers. The silkie ones have the bantam trait and are smaller. Some with the regular feathers have a small crested head. They all have feathered legs and and five toes.
Well, nature literally took its course and a coyote got the rooster and hen. When the chicks grew a little we ended up with 3 roosters. All of the roosters looked like cemanis with feathered legs. One was a late bloomer and to his great fortune, wasn’t crowing yet, on the night the coyotes came back. They got the two other roosters while everyone else quietly hid in the bushes. Now he has his ladies, well sisters. They had chicks which are still young. The only difference I’ve noted with these is that I have two that don’t have feathered legs so to the untrained eye they look like cemanis. There is only one minor detail, 5 toes. I don’t know which eggs came from which hen because a had a dominant hen who was stealing everyone’s eggs. I finally had to bring some in and put them in the incubator. She was shoving them under her chest and there were so many that they were coming out the back so she wasn’t able to incubate them all. I was too late for several. I ended up with 6 incubated chicks and 6 hen raised.

Did you ever do this?! I have to see how it turned out!