Silkie Cross Thread!! PICS!!

[Stef82]

It's now a couple days old and its legs are turning dark. Could it be a girl?

 

[ihavechickens2]

Oh. Sorry. Father was blue silkie rooster. Mother red sexlink.

oh ok I see now.

 

[ihavechickens2]

It's now a couple days old and its legs are turning dark. Could it be a girl?

not necessarily.

 

[GWpoultymaster]

i have a white male silkie crossed with female milles the chicks are beastly they are feather footed white with black pencling

 

[ihavechickens2]

i have a white male silkie crossed with female milles the chicks are beastly they are feather footed white with black pencling

Pics.

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

I have read that if the chick has black skin like a silkie it's a girl. I have some Cochin/Silkies that are pink skinned that are boys. Is this true for large breeds too? I have some that just hatched that are silkie/Easter egger mix.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I'm going to be keeping an eye on this sex linked skin color thing. I had 2 frizzled Cochin/Silkie mixes hatch the other day and both of them have very black skin. Dad is a Silkie, mom is a frizzled Cochin. So, if the skin color theory holds true, they'd both be girls, right?
I've hatched alot of Silkie mixes in the past, and now that I think about it, I remember the hens having dark skin. I have a bunch more of these mixes due to hatch under my broody hens over the next month. I was going to sell all of the chicks, but now I think I may hold onto them long enough to see who turns out to be what....

 

[farmer boy]

i have hatched one silkie cross chick im not sure what the mother is but the chick is pretty cute .. here she is

you can sorta see her leg feathers im not sure what the mother is i know the father its a grey silkie .. im pretty sure hes grey

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

I'm going to be keeping an eye on this sex linked skin color thing. I had 2 frizzled Cochin/Silkie mixes hatch the other day and both of them have very black skin. Dad is a Silkie, mom is a frizzled Cochin. So, if the skin color theory holds true, they'd both be girls, right?
I've hatched alot of Silkie mixes in the past, and now that I think about it, I remember the hens having dark skin. I have a bunch more of these mixes due to hatch under my broody hens over the next month. I was going to sell all of the chicks, but now I think I may hold onto them long enough to see who turns out to be what....

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.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

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!