Silkied Ameraucana Project

[cgmaster]

Prudence and patience will serve you well in this project.  Silkied AMs will have the same limitations and requirements as the Silkie breed - low roosts, better protection from the elements and preditors.   I don't breed or have silkies so can't tell you if a Silkie bred to another type of bird will give you silkied offspring or not (splits) - surely Marsha could since she has them.  I do know the black skin and extra toes will get passed to offspring - was one of the early arguments that any such cross would have been very noticeable and extremely difficult to breed out had Silkies ever been introduced into the SiAms.  Later, that supposition was disproved,  Never, ever, Silkies in SiAms.  

I am going to use the one with white skin and slate legs, I would get easter eggers split to silkied and not all of them would lay blue or green eggs, the only things he has that might be a problem are the extra toes, slight crest and the large wattles overall its just an experiment to see if I can get silkied easter eggers with the correct skin and leg color of true ameraucanas, he is buff colored and I could possibly introduce that color SiAm's if I can get it to breed true, mightmight help with hardiness too since they are no related birds and if I get them to breed true I wouldn't have to worry about making splits as much since the silkie gene is there already and they are completely unrelated birds. It would take years to accomplish but it will definitely be an interesting experiment for this generation

 

[cgmaster]

Sorry if I repeated myself

 

[marsha tutterow]

Prudence and patience will serve you well in this project.  Silkied AMs will have the same limitations and requirements as the Silkie breed - low roosts, better protection from the elements and preditors.   I don't breed or have silkies so can't tell you if a Silkie bred to another type of bird will give you silkied offspring or not (splits) - surely Marsha could since she has them.  I do know the black skin and extra toes will get passed to offspring - was one of the early arguments that any such cross would have been very noticeable and extremely difficult to breed out had Silkies ever been introduced into the SiAms.  Later, that supposition was disproved,  Never, ever, Silkies in SiAms.  

Breeding silkie to EE is like breeding a beagle to a mutt. You get some traits of both. But still have a mutt. But we all love mutts. And remember, there is a good chance you breed away the green egg possibility. Actually an EE is a mix. So who knows what you get when you add a third party. I would try to use a AM if possible. That is the best way to keep the green/blue egg. And no way to know if you keep the silkied feathering or not.

 

[cgmaster]

I might use some pure ameraucana hens with him as well next year

 

[artjb3]

I overlooked this chick! What do you think? It looks similar to some of the first pics in this thread.

 

[artjb3]

I will patiently wait....

 

[marsha tutterow]

I will patiently wait....

Looks silkied to me.

 

[LBKS]

Lost the black silkied pullet overnight. Not many black silkied left in my project right now. At least theblue/black splits are thriving.

 

[Thespoiledchicken]

Lost the black silkied pullet overnight. Not many black silkied left in my project right now. At least theblue/black splits are thriving.

I'm so sorry

 

[EdenCamp]

I am going to use the one with white skin and slate legs, I would get easter eggers split to silkied and not all of them would lay blue or green eggs, the only things he has that might be a problem are the extra toes, slight crest and the large wattles overall its just an experiment to see if I can get silkied easter eggers with the correct skin and leg color of true ameraucanas, he is buff colored and I could possibly introduce that color SiAm's if I can get it to breed true, mightmight help with hardiness too since they are no related birds and if I get them to breed true I wouldn't have to worry about making splits as much since the silkie gene is there already and they are completely unrelated birds. It would take years to accomplish but it will definitely be an interesting experiment for this generation

OK, one more time, that cross is NOT a silkied Ameraucana. . There are and were NO Silkies, EVER crossed into Silkied Ameraucana. ALL SiAms are descendants of a single pair of pure Ameraucana with a spontaneously mutating recessive feather gene. What you are contemplating will take decades of concentrated test breeding to weed out a plethora of errant genes that serve absolutely no purpose but to degrade the integrity of the SiAm gene pool.

Cross breed and experiment all you like - but make SiAms like this? No. They would be a hybred Silkie X EE.