Silkies-Breeding hatchery to SQ??

[THough1956]

I have some hatchery Lavendars that have the color and that is it. I have an excellent splash roo (Lavendar gene) with all the right stuff, any ideas on how a breeding of these two might turn out? Hatchery bird has fairly good toes.

Ideas??

 

[Elite Silkies]

I say you have to start from somewhere and with what you have available.

I would try it once and see how they turned out. I would think that it would take you awhile and lots of culling.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

F1 cross would be blue chicks carrying lav. Cross back to the lav parent and you will get half blue lavenders and half lavenders.

 

[Funky Feathers]

Breed them to en excellent SQ Black Roo and you will do better. Then if you get a nicer quality Lavender cockerel, breed him to some top SQ Black girls. They should get better each generation.

 

[THough1956]

Thanks. Just so happens, I do have a nice black rooster! Just not old enough yet. Guess I will keep my ugly ones a little longer and see what happens!