Silkie x Polish?

[TheRanch]

I just got thru reading that if you breed a silkie with any feathered breed ALL offspring will be feathered, so how do you get the hair/feathers back into the line????

BTW - beautiful color what ever you call it!!! that's a pretty bird!!

 

[jackrooster]

these are very interesting birds

 

[jackrooster]

these are very interesting birds

 

[TurtleFeathers]

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I'm not real sure, Sonoran - she's kinda khaki-ish, kinda blue-ish (kind of a powdery steel blue), kinda mottled, but not real cuckoo. I'm not even real sure her parents are the colors I *thought* they were! See what you think:

Here's Dad, who I hatched from a friends "mixed flock" eggs:

Here's Mom, who I was told was a khaki cuckoo when I bought her:

 

[ConchRepublic]

looks lavender, but with the mom's pattern to me.

 

[TurtleFeathers]

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Well, first, lets just say that all chickens are "feathered"... LOL!

Some just have "silkie" feathers, and others have "smooth" feathers. Silkie x smooth = smooth split to silkie. To get silkie offspring back again, you'd breed the smooth split to silkies to silkies - and you'd get silkied offspring, plus more smooth split to silkie offspring. You'd have to ask one of the genetics experts here about percentages tho.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

If mom is cuckoo (and she looks it) her SONS will inherit the barring pattern from her. Daughters must get it from Dad. Were either of the breeders working on lavender? She looks to be lavender, in that both red and black pigments are diluted. Note that the gold (red) is not diluted in Mom or in Dad.

We need Henk or David or Tim.

 

[TurtleFeathers]

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One would only hope... But the question is, what is mom's pattern? I've been told she might be a "platinum"?

 

[poultryhaven]

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WOW!!! My hen looks like her almost! lol

Well its not too good of a pic but if you saw her in person she looks identical almost

Also, I hatched eggs from a friend and she said they are cochin/silkie mix and the chicks came out silkie feathered with a silkie comb. If all birds come out "Smooth feathered" how did this happen. Heres a couple pics of the chicks

 

[TurtleFeathers]

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Yeah, thats whats throwing me - the mother to son thing with the barring pattern. Until a couple months ago, I thought either this was a male, or mom was not cuckoo - then she laid an egg, and now you say that mom looks to be a cuckoo! So, I'm stumped!

Neither breeder was working with lavender that I'm aware of, but I was going to breed her to my lavender cochin rooster just to see what happens (he's the only visual lavender I have available to pair her with).