Silkie Cross Thread!! PICS!!

[racuda]

so far the first 2 chicks are females(pullets) but Im not sure about the last one, can you take more pics of that last chick? thanks.

I'm glad the first two are pullets because my goal was to see if I could create a super-broody. Hopefully they will have the tenacity of Silkies and the mothering skills of Cochins.

Here are a couple of more pics of the third chick. This one has the yellow feet of it's momma.

 

[racuda]

By the way, here are the parents.

 

[nicalandia]

I'm glad the first two are pullets because my goal was to see if I could create a super-broody. Hopefully they will have the tenacity of Silkies and the mothering skills of Cochins.

Here are a couple of more pics of the third chick. This one has the yellow feet of it's momma.

thats a BOY...!!!! could you please keep him untill he is a cockerel? I´m doing a genetic research on this kind of cross and I need all the help I can get, if you let him grow and post pics of him you will be helping alot of people, thanks

 

[nicalandia]

By the way, here are the parents.

by doing this type of crossing(black skin rooster) over a white or yellow shanked hen you will produce sexlinks..... meaning the pullets will have black skin and the boys will have clear white skin... this is the easiest form of sexlinks...

 

[racuda]

Thanks for the info! You can have the boy if you want him.

What did you hope to find out by letting him grow up?

 

[sfjw]

Hello,
I would like to introduce 'Doris', who is a Silkie x RIR. She's 20 weeks old, yet to lay an egg, and this is her favorite place to be in the garden. I love her to bits

 

[nicalandia]

Thanks for the info! You can have the boy if you want him.

What did you hope to find out by letting him grow up?

I cant get him, I´m located in Nicaragua... what do I hope to find out? I´m hoping to get close to solve a genetic puzzle

 

[nicalandia]

Hello,
I would like to introduce 'Doris', who is a Silkie x RIR. She's 20 weeks old, yet to lay an egg, and this is her favorite place to be in the garden. I love her to bits

her father was a silkie and her mother was the RIR....

 

[ramirezframing]

anyone have, seen, or have any ideas on sumatra x silkies? would love the extra spurs all showy on silkie, and also sumatra look with silkie's black blood, bones, skin, and meat!

done this cross, they came out looking like a silkie minus the silkie feathers, no extra spurs, but since they were all roos, I ate them at a year old. they had black skin and meat, bones and spotted organs

 

[sfjw]

her father was a silkie and her mother was the RIR....

Interesting - the only male silkie i remember seeing on the farm was totally black - if he was her father, how come she's white? (I'm very new to chickens!)