Silkie Cross Thread!! PICS!!

[ihavechickens2]

I know that my silkie/cochins boys all have light skin. My girls all had black skin. I'm just wondering if it still true with large chickens as well. If it is then I now have 3 silkie/easter egger girls and 1 boy.

i heard, if the dad has blue skin (silkie) and the mom(cochin) has white then the girls would have blue and boys would have white.

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

It should hold true for the larger birds. My past Silkie mix hens were Silkie/EE. The hens had dark skin, the roosters light and all the girls laid light blue or green eggs!

I hope mine lay colored eggs. Are your chickens small like bantams or large?

i heard, if the dad has blue skin (silkie) and the mom(cochin) has white then the girls would have blue and boys would have white. 

That's what I heard too. I hope it is cause that means I have 1 rooster and 3 girls.

 

[farmer boy]

i got 2 more silkie cross bred's and they have feathered legs and black legs do you think they will be hens since they have the black legs ??? i have a silkie cross i put a pic of him already up but he has yellow legs so does that mean he is a cockerel ?

 

[ihavechickens2]

i got 2 more silkie cross bred's and they have feathered legs and black legs do you think they will be hens since they have the black legs ??? i have a silkie cross i put a pic of him already up but he has yellow legs so does that mean he is a cockerel ?

From what I've understood it depends on which is the father and if the other parent has yellow legs.

 

[farmer boy]

im pretty sure the mother is the silkie and im not sure what the father would be but the father could be a silkie im not sure

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I hope mine lay colored eggs. Are your chickens small like bantams or large?
That's what I heard too. I hope it is cause that means I have 1 rooster and 3 girls.

I don't have those girls anymore, I sold them all when I got into Silkies. I sure do miss them. They were sort of in between. Not super huge, but not small like a bantam. They could certainly cover more eggs then my Silkies can. They were really great layers too!

 

[lisaequine1]

We have four silkie/hamburg crosses. All four have the same color skin......so it didn't work for us.

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

We have four silkie/hamburg crosses.  All four have the same color skin......so it didn't work for us.

 

What color skin? And what did they end up being?

 

[lisaequine1]

What color skin? And what did they end up being?

Stupid me, I meant to say that they turned out to be 2 girls and 2 boys. They all have the dark gray/black skin of silkies.

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

Stupid me, I meant to say that they turned out to be 2 girls and 2 boys. They all have the dark gray/black skin of silkies.

Haha.