Silkie thread!

[Brody's Broodello]

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See post #9748 for a pic of Mcsilkie & a wheaten girl.

 

[chickendales]

Brody's Broodello :

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So..I have a couple questions. What colors did you originally breed together to get McSilkie? I have a cockerel that looks a fair bit like your McFlurrie, except that his red/mahogany coloring isn't as deep and his crest is a little bit grayer. What colors can you expect from a Black x Salmon breeding? Do you get Salmons and/or split Salmons? (Sorry, I'm still pretty new to genetics. Just want to make sure I understand it all, lol.)

Brody's Broodello :

The thing to remember is the Salmon is really Silver Wheaten, so you can breed to the exact color patterns as a Faverolle breeder. So if you follow the tried & true methods of that breed, you can't go wrong, plus they have tons of practice working with those genes already worked out. Unlike other colors that need time to work out a plan for breeding, this color already is a working color.

I guess I should go find the Faverolle thread!

Ok I have been asked what was the recipe, how did I make the Salmon, and how does someone make their own. Here's the answer!
The "trick" secret ingrediant of the Salmon silkie is/was the father!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20866_dscn1093.jpg
He was a true Mahagony Red bird who had the Lighter hackle feathers. I then bred him to a Silverpenciled hen that had a brownist cast and lighter hackles to her.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20866_dscn1101.jpg
The results were McSilkie and siblings. The hens are a wheaten color. I took a pic of McSilkie & one of the hens last night. The lighting causes the color to not photograph well. In person you can really see the true wheaten color in these. But you'll get the gist of her coloring, since McSilkie is standing next to her. The hens are f1 like McSilkie. Though he is Silver wheaten (Salmon) the hens are more wheaten based.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20866_dscn3123.jpg
Here is a pic of McSilkie as a baby.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20866_dscn1117.jpg

As far as what to breed to if you don't have a Wheaten silkie, I would recommend Black. Since I have bred McSilkie to other colors for experiment. I have found that the color does reproduce, when not bred to just wheaten hens. So you could, and might , get this color in the F2 gen when crossed with black, or another color. The bird for sale "McFlurrie" is an example of what you can get from the Salmon to another color, in this case Splash. Hope this answers some of the questions everyone has. Since this is on the ground floor of breeding only time will tell. It sure is getting exciting!
The Salmon is in the pens with full sisters for mating this winter & the results will be posted on the Silkies Of A Different Color Thread as they happen!​

nice​

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

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Shes molting really badly!
shes normally fluffier but all her under breast feathers have gone

shes really tiny in sizee my roos are twice the size of her.

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

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WOW what a beauty!!!

Thanks

 

[danaalex]

i have two white silkie hens and a partridge roo. i am hatching their eggs now. i'm curious as to what the chicks will be/ look like. this is my first time with fertile eggs from my own birds. any insight?

thanks!!

 

[peepblessed]

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According to the chicken color calculator they will all be black! http://www.kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator
That's kind of hard to believe.

Maybe you'll get an answer from someone who's done it.

 

[chickendales]

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you can get about any thing just mater what color the white is geneticly

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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You can get pretty much anything. Think of a white bird as a colored bird that has been dipped in white paint. Just because you don't see the color, doesn't mean that there isn't color hiding underneath.

 

[tracysbantams]

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That is so sad

I am sorry about your little pullet. I worry about the bad weather too....we are suppose to have rain today and tomorrow. I keep going out and checking on mine cause I worry about them.