Silkie thread!

[Adoravachick]

Here are some of the notes I have been taking:
Black x black = 100% black
Black x blue = 50% black, 50% blue
Black x splash = 100% blue
Blue x blue = 50% blue, 25% black, 25% splash
Blue x splash = 50% blue, 50% splash
Splash x splash = 100% splash that dilutes over time, need black bred back w/splash
Buff x buff = 100% buff
White x white = 100% white
White x any other color = is unpredictable
Dominant white bred to partridge gives you Red Pyle
Isabelle = breed Lavendar to buff, then take chicks and breed back to Lav.
Lavendar = lav x lav
Lav x split lav (black w/lav gene) = 50% lav, 50% split
Black lav split is a black bird carrying a recessive Lavendar gene

Thank you for sending out this chart. I will be saving it for future reference.

 

[Chicken Tamer]

9 days tell eggs hatch!!!!

 

[NovaAman]

2 more days for me!

 

[Chicken Tamer]

SOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Beans Eggs]

Blue silkies usually have one white toenail and the rest are black, where as black silkies have all black toenails. Also, if it's hard to tell buff and white chicks apart, white silkies feet are all black and buffs feet skin is tan. Hope this helps!

 

[Beans Eggs]

It is so hard for me to tell.


Is there a way to figure out if shes blue or black?

Blue silkies usually have one white toenail, where as black silkies have all blacks. Also if you have trouble telling white and buff chicks apart white silkies have all black feet and buff silkies foot skin is tannish. Hope this helps!

 

[Sanna]

9 days tell eggs hatch!!!!

2 more days for me!

Make sure you post some pictures for us when they hatch!

Blue silkies usually have one white toenail and the rest are black, where as black silkies have all black toenails. Also, if it's hard to tell buff and white chicks apart, white silkies feet are all black and buffs feet skin is tan. Hope this helps!

That's good to know about the buff feet. I just got my first buff chick and it came out with pink feet. They are starting to change color now..the feet are.

 

[omaeve]

4Hchickmama: I can't tell by your pictures, and I am new to silkies, but in my other chickens, bald head means she's the roo's favorite, spelled s-e-x, if you get my drift. I don't know why, but my last 2 roos have just one hen that they like to grab by the head feathers until they are bald. Maddening, since although they make hensaddles, I've yet to see a cowboy hat to match, lol.

Thanks for putting me at ease, Hawkeye - I've just never had such little babies, one of the EE's died w/o pipping after chirping all day, then I got on here and was seeing all sorts of "omg, my silkie chicks are dying!!!!!" posts and it kind of freaked me out. I swear the little boogers are nearly twice as big today as they were Thursday when they hatched! I've got to set up a photo shoot soon Hatching in summer is soooo much easier than February-March, just glad they didn't try during the 100's weeks!

my great granny alway said july was when she let her hen sir the eggs. that they never lost them whith that kind of heat..helped the peeps.

 

[omaeve]

Hi everyone! Haven't been on here in a while. Busy hatching chicks this spring/summer! Here are some pics of my some of my silkies

is the gray silke a lavender? sure are pretty. i want the gray-JEALOUS

 

[peepblessed]

I've seen many porcelain chicks that look like that, however with the stripes and the pattern on the wings already, its going to actually be lavender partridge. Also common out of a lot of porcelain pens. Porcelain is a project and work in progress, many people are going different directions with their project breeding and there is a huge variance in the chicks, some having partridge backgrounds that randomly pop up and throw lavender partridge

I have not heard the term lavender partridge before but it sure fits what mine looks like. Have you done any crossing with this to regular partridge?