Silkie thread!

I looked through several breeding pages and couldn't find an answer - my little girl wants to know what kind of chicks she could get if she let some hatch with our blue silkie roo and our white silkie hen????
There is no way to know. White prevents all colours and patterns that are genetically present in the bird from appearing. Every white could be different, and thus give different results. Kind of like mixing a stew and adding a can that has a missing label--you don;t know if you are adding carrots, asparagus, peaches, chili or cherry pie filling!
 
Painted feathers, Oh
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Well, i have no problem with making so called "mean" animals nice, as in taming them. I have a goose i raised, and everyone was saying not to get one cause they were mean. I proved those people wrong
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And i think its the same with rooster's, they just need some extra attention and love.
 
Welcome to the nice Silkie Thread!

Sounds like you have chicken math too... I love Silkies.

Why don't you think the Roo is pure? Something in his kids? I found out my Black/Red Partridge came from a White Showgirl when one of his babies turned out white. When I asked the lady I got him from how this would happen she said he had two possible fathers, either a Partridge or a White Showgirl. The White Showgirl makes sense. No Showgirl babies (doesn't carry NN) but he carries a copy of recessive white.

You have done what so many people keep asking about - you crossed a white with a non-white. You got a black, a White, a Partridge and a Blue... amazing what White can hide, huh?
The 2 babies I have from the Partridge Roo over my Crested/Bearded white Silky: although both chicks have 5 toes & black skin, they don't have the Blue ears & it seems their feathers have too much of the barbs that hold the feathers together. They are tiny, guess I'll have to wait awhile to see for sure. Guess I should take some pictures & post them.
 
I have young Easter Eggers that were raised together so they hang out in a group away from the Silkies, although they share the same coop. The EE rooster is still young and has not started crowing yet but I am wondering if I will be able to keep him when he matures because I don't want him breeding with the Silkies. I don't think the Silkie roosters can catch up with the EE hens because they move so much faster. Is it true that birds of a feather flock together? If I end up with Silkie crosses, will it be obvious when they hatch?
For awhile I kept a Black Silky Roo in my regular chicken yard. At the time I didn't have any mature Cockrelle for the hens. Even though the Silky was about 1/2 the size of the one EE hen I have, he was able to breed her. None of the other hens would allow him to catch them. The 2 eggs I stuck under a different broody hen hatched & the chicks had black skin, 5 toes but regular feathers. They had beautiful Blue feathers & I hoped for pullets, but around 3 months they started getting lovely gold feathers in the neck feathers and wings. Both chicks were Roo's!!! They were bigger than a Silky but smaller than an EE. (named them "Shurwood" & "Forest")
 
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Here are our two Silkies.

Our hen (Little Bit) just got does sitting, she did a good job but nothing hatched. She's getting back into the hang of things with the rest of the flock. Not sure what color she would be.


And our handsome Roo, SunKist. He was sold to us as a Buff, but I'm pretty sure he's a Red.


Anyways, Enjoy!
She is grey, he is buff, definitely not red.
 

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