Silkie thread!

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[MyChickenWishList]

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How soon do they start showing rooster stuff

 

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PICTURE ONE BOYS OR GIRLS OR ONE OF EACH? THEY ARE 9 WEEKS

 

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PICTURE TWO

 

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PICTURE THREE GIRL OR BOY

 

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PICTURE FOUR GIRL OR BOY?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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First, US silkies ARE bantam sized. I am assuming you want something really little like a dutch or old english or serama?

Black skin is not a sex linked gene. What you are thinking about is the inhibitor of dermal melanin gene.

If I understand you correctly, you want to breed something like an old english to a silkie, then take it back to silkie type while maintaining the smaller size? You would do better to acquire silkies that are as small as possible--there are some out there; probably refer to them as dwarfs in and posts or ads you place to find them--then breed them and select for smaller birds.

 

[Teresaann24]

Speaking of Dwarf you all have to see my girl I will get a pic ASAP she is super tiny and she is 8 months old.

 

[MyChickenWishList]

My 4 silkies are 8 weeks old and just as small as my old english game bantam and my cochin bantams.
I didnt realize they came in different sizes but labeled as bantam....not that Im worried as I only have them as pets
but will be interesting to watch how big they do get as they grow.
Actually I wish they would get big enough to defend themselves against the big birds so I would quit running in the rain to check on them

 

[laughingdog]

was seeing a silkie thread talking about breeding bigger for meat, saying the best crossing to keep silkie black skin-meat, etc was to breed silkie roo to cornish hens i think, and the girls all came out that way and silkie looking at birth to adult, but boys had to be re acquired to then breed back to, to do something.. so i must have gotten something very confused. was hoping to use either, or both, my old english hen, mosty my rosecomb cock (just love everything about that little guy, and would love ones of his size, shape and personality).. imagine huge blue earlobes on a silkie (for the beginning birds of the project). hehehe

also if the silkes are at least half the size of adults ive seen, large combs already and blue lobes, would that indicate all hens? also they all seem to be having my one or two roos tring to ride them, or does that happen alot if the others arnt sure if girls also?