Silkie Feathered Easter Eggers

[trisha19]

Hi All,
I thought I would start a thread for silkie feathered easter eggers. I have seen a few people have been lucky to have this pop up in thier lines as I have. I have a silkie feathered hen that I hatched last spring from my stock of easter eggers. Hoping there are more people out there that would like to compare notes, and share about this. So far this year I have hatched 6 chicks with the silkie type feathering.

Now keep in mind I have NOT crossed my birds with the breed of silkies, these birds have no traits of a silkie. I have no idea how the gene got in to the line but it is there.

 

[Illia]

Love the first one!


So with Silkied feathering also popping up in purebred Ameraucanas, anyone noticing a really interesting trend here in Silkie feathered flukes? I wonder if there's something going around causing it. . . ?

 

[Cattitude]

I have some Silkie-X-Ameraucanas who lay blue eggs, that I want to breed up to Silkie standard and still have blue eggs....

 

[TurtleFeathers]

That's awesome Trisha! Where did you get the parents of these silkied chicks?

 

[trisha19]

I bought eggs off of ebay almost 2 years ago, keep all of the chicks that hatched and then last year these started popping up.

 

[phasianidae]

Does anyone have any to sell, or eggs? Otherwise I plan on breeding Silkies to my EEs.

 

[jmmre31]

I want one...Any idea where you can get the eggs to hatch?

 

[trisha19]

I will be selling some in a couple of months as long as my hatches keep going good. I only have one hen so I can't sell eggs as she only lays eod.

 

[phasianidae]

Quote:
what does eod mean?

 

[trisha19]

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what does eod mean?

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