Silkie thread!

[sheeshshe]

well, phooey. the hens and chicks thing didn't work out and my chicks are back in the house. now I have to find someone to take care of them while we're away. or sell them. IDK. I'm not going to keep them for breedign, but my kids are attached to them SOOOO much. IDK what to do. bah

 

[PaintedFeathers]

will a blue bred with a splash produce black? Someone was asking on facebook.

 

[sheeshshe]

will a blue bred with a splash produce black? Someone was asking on facebook.

half blue and half splash.

 

[Jharper]

What color will you get when you cross a black with a buff?

 

[Suzierd]

My big baby

He is so sweet, and really enjoyed sitting on my lap for a bit. How does he look? How is his comb?

He's so pretty and sweet.

 

[moomoodiddy]

will a blue bred with a splash produce black? Someone was asking on facebook.

no i put the bbs breeding chart on the comments

 

[MNickoloff]

I'm sorry I couldn't help it. Isn't he adorable!

 

[Suzierd]

I'm sorry I couldn't help it. Isn't he adorable!

So cute, I like his little poofy cheeks

 

[ceocka]

I hatched a beautiful blue silkie from my own flock today! I hope it is a girl

 

[ChickNmamma]

What color will you get when you cross a black with a buff?

FINALLY finished reading the whole thread. I think my head hurts... so much good information - so many cute chick pictures, so much fluffy - LOVE IT!

Hi all, I bought my first Silkie at the feed store because I was looking for broodies to hatch my EE eggs. None of my EEs had ever hatched their own and my little Styrofoam incubator does not like my wood stove heated/no air conditioned house. Tried twice - once got 5 roosters and 2 girls, second time got nothing. Sooo... I wanted broodies. I got a whole bunch of different breeds - and then I saw this little gray fluff ball with bright black eyes and black skin at the feed store - so I got it too. Turned out to be a girl (YAY) and a GREAT mommy - went broody in December and hatched out 5 chicks (would have been more if I had left the eggs alone). They still sleep with her - and they are laying now too (mutt crosses from the other breeds and one of her kids)..

I then decided to read up on Silkies.. and wow! What a bunch of cute fluffiness is possible. My good broody Mommy has a place with her friends, but I wanted more fluff. Soooo... I got a Blue and her mix daughter. Then I saw Partridge.. oh my - LOVE THAT! Got a Red/Black Partridge beardless Roo, then two more girls (nice SQ and been shown beardless Buff and a Blue Frizzle).. and I want to make SQ beardless Blue Partridge. Not a lot to ask - right?

Anyhow, to answer the above question (because I have sort of done it)..

A mess. They could be all black. OR... since Silkies Black may not be based on E like the calculator says but instead based on E^R with melanizers or even on e^b with unknown melanizers..

It depends on what they are hiding and how pure the colors are. I crossed a Red/Black Partridge and a Buff girl - and I expected to get Smutty Buff (what the calculator said). However.. I got .. um.. partridge? So the Buff had more partridge than she was showing (She was already smutty buff). They are now growing more and more Buff colored - so may look like Smutty Buff when they grow up - but they looked Partridge as chicks (and still have the patterned wings). I also crossed him with a Blue and a Blue frizzle and got really a mix, including a white, a black, three Partridges and a bunch of Blues... The Blues and the Blacks were expected (sort of) - the Partridges and the WHITE were not!

Only way to find out .. is to do it. Only thing you will need to know is - most will not be SQ colors because you will be crossing two different bases and adding all sorts of melanizers that weren't present in the original colors. It will mess up both colors for future generations - and the chicks can have leakage (black), smutty (buff), and whatever else is hiding in there will show up in all sorts of combinations. Now if you were adding lavender gene in there you could work on Porcelain - Self Blue Creme. Only take you 15 to 20 generations to get it right!