Silkie Feathered Ameraucanas adventure

[IdealisticRoo]

I am fascinated by these beautiful chickens!

ANYONE with hatching eggs or day-old baby chicks for sale please PM me!

Thank you!

 

[fancyfeathers38]

Hi everyone,
I have been reading this thread and found it very interesting as I have a white silkie feathered Ameraucauna hen.
So I thought I'd ask, if I mated this white silkie feathered hen to a normal feathered Ameraucauna rooster and then mated those offspring together, would I get a percentage of silkie feathered offspring?
Thanks,
Sundae

 

[BonneTerreChick]

Fancyfeathers38- I think you would have a 25% chance for each chick to be smooth Ameraucana, 25% chance for each to be Silkied Ameraucana and 50% chance to be Ameraucana split to Silkied(visually smooth).

 

[fancyfeathers38]

Oh Okay. Thanks! I'll be putting her in a pen with my roo soon!

 

[rollkeeg877]

i have never seen those did you do the cross yourself if so thats amazing

 

[Chickenfan4life]

I was thinking of crossing my Splash silkie roo with my blue silkie hen and hatching her eggs? Would I get silkie ameraucanas? PM me if you have the answer...

 

[Moonkit]

I was thinking of crossing my Splash silkie roo with my blue silkie hen and hatching her eggs? Would I get silkie ameraucanas? PM me if you have the answer...

You would have crossbreeds with silkied traits.. but likely alot of the other traits from silkies like the 5 toes, feathery crests, dark skin.. You'd have to spend several generations to get rid of those 'undesirable' traits.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

You would have crossbreeds with silkied traits.. but likely alot of the other traits from silkies like the 5 toes, feathery crests, dark skin.. You'd have to spend several generations to get rid of those 'undesirable' traits.

Sounds promising!

 

[chick-among-us]

I was thinking of crossing my Splash silkie roo with my blue silkie hen and hatching her eggs? Would I get silkie ameraucanas? PM me if you have the answer... 

You would have crossbreeds with silkied traits.. but likely alot of the other traits from silkies like the 5 toes, feathery crests, dark skin.. You'd have to spend several generations to get rid of those 'undesirable' traits.

KathyinMo got her birds from Julie... Who had a mutation of sorts crop up...there was never an outcrossing to silkie chickens. We do NOT have to worry about five toes,dark skin,or any other thing..these are pure breed ameraucanas with no outside influence regardless of how others are getting silkied traits that isn't the case with these birds. What we are battling at the moment is vigor and vitality in the birds. I had twenty fluffies and splits. Now I have 4 splits (one roo is magnificent.) We have ended up with a full trio of blue fluffy or silkied birds, so I have seven birds with the gene. We have been selling the eggs but only from a mixed pen of the trio, the splits and reg smooth birds mixed in a pen...we ARE getting ready to move them into more separated pens...our goal is actually lavender silkied ams...major problem is that the blue of the silkied birds will mess up the lav...so that's is my own issue... we've given ourselves an impossible task. However the more people that can provide eggs,to people who are willing to get eggs that are splits or even possible splits and mate them together to get renewed silkied birds,is exactly what is needed for this project.also egg color is a factor tending to run a funky green or muddled blue...you would have to HAVE enough birds to be able to ONLY hatch very blue eggs. I am not there egg color isn't something I can focus on yet. Frustrating when you go out an one is just dead...

 

[Pearl is my roo]

I love them