Silkies Of A Different Color

[mlaff]

If anyone is selling chocolate silkie eggs can you PM me? I hatched 3 and 2 ended up being chocolate splits.

 

[mylittlechicken]

How about this color guys? Sonoran (our genetics and color expert) calls this blue buff Columbian. I think it sounds so exotic.

Do you have a picture of your boy when he was a chick? Would like to see how he looked back then.

 

[VioletBlueIvy]

Hi silkie peeps! I have been drooling over your silkies for years particularly these different colors. I finally found some cuckoo silkies, I dont think they are very far along in this process, but they are all I have been able to get. I am hoping I can get some opinions on how best to proceed...
My plan is to breed my partridge roo #1 AND cuckoo roo #2 with my cuckoo hen #3 and a couple white hens I have, and see what happens. Then there is #4...I am not sure what is going on with this one but I think has cuckoo in there, maybe a grey cuckoo. It came from the same place as the two cuckoo. It has black skin and a single comb
What are your thoughts?
I have an issue with single combs. All of the cuckoo's have single combs! I have not found any literature on how to get away from the straight combs. Selecting for walnut combs obviously, but is that all?
I know type is the most important thing, and that I should select accordingly but more specifically what is the most important? Comb shape? Skin color?
Any comments on the birds thoughts and opinions about my "plan" are very very welcome!
#1

#2

#2 Comb

#2 Feet He looks like an owl lol!

#3

#4 Maybe grey cuckoo or chinchilla was the other suggestion I saw

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Hi silkie peeps! I have been drooling over your silkies for years particularly these different colors. I finally found some cuckoo silkies, I dont think they are very far along in this process, but they are all I have been able to get. I am hoping I can get some opinions on how best to proceed...
My plan is to breed my partridge roo #1 AND cuckoo roo #2 with my cuckoo hen #3 and a couple white hens I have, and see what happens. Then there is #4...I am not sure what is going on with this one but I think has cuckoo in there, maybe a grey cuckoo. It came from the same place as the two cuckoo. It has black skin and a single comb
What are your thoughts?
I have an issue with single combs. All of the cuckoo's have single combs! I have not found any literature on how to get away from the straight combs. Selecting for walnut combs obviously, but is that all?
I know type is the most important thing, and that I should select accordingly but more specifically what is the most important? Comb shape? Skin color?
Any comments on the birds thoughts and opinions about my "plan" are very very welcome!

Breeding to white is unpredictable. Why are you planning to? Also, why are you planning to breed partridge to cuckoo?

#1
This is a grey with autosomal red, a disqualification. I suppose you could breed him to the whites and hope he carries a hidden copy. I would not breed him to cuckoo.
#2
This is a cuckoo.
#2 Comb

#2 Feet

He looks like an owl lol!
Yellow skin!
#3This is a cuckoo; I like her type.
#4 Maybe grey cuckoo or chinchilla was the other suggestion I sawThis is a grey.

 

[Theresa sla]

If anyone is selling chocolate silkie eggs can you PM me? I hatched 3 and 2 ended up being chocolate splits.

My chocolate hen has been by herself and some of her young 8-10 week old chicks for the last 2 weeks or so. And you will be getting some eggs from her. As soon as she starts laying. I have two qestions, anyones thoughts on should i take her growing chicks out of that pen to get her in the mode to lay again???
And second question I have on hand a pure black roo to mate her with of good quality. But a friend offered me her spare black roo that's split to paint, I don't much about paint and not sure if would ever want to breed for paint but how Awsome would a chance at a chocolate paint be???? Any know what my chances at getting that would be from that combo? Really don't need anoughter roo but still it's hard not to think about that combo, sunoran how is your chocolate paints working for you???

 

[Theresa sla]

hi blue ivy
con-grates on the new silkies!! just wanted to share a few shots if my cuckoo work thought you might find it interesting,

my cuckoo sizzle roo, that has now been rehomed. he is 50%cochin 50% sizzle so only 25% silkie

one of his chicks from earlier this spring about 3 months old now. its a silkie frizzle, and lacking in crest size but i was a bit surprised about the improvement in one generation on skin and comb. by no means perfection but still??
i think you have what looks to be a great start on a cuckoo project blue ivy

 

[Theresa sla]

and because i'm in a posting mood and this is the silkies of a different color thread, i hatched out a few of these kinds of chicks this year, not sure what to call them? they are out of my columbian silkie project. looks like the head and crest is coming in solid white. the wings and tail all in stripes. cant wait to see how they grow up

 

[mylittlechicken]

and because i'm in a posting mood and this is the silkies of a different color thread, i hatched out a few of these kinds of chicks this year, not sure what to call them? they are out of my columbian silkie project. looks like the head and crest is coming in solid white. the wings and tail all in stripes. cant wait to see how they grow up

What colors of Columbian you breed with each other to get this pattern?
Looks really nice!

 

[Theresa sla]

BlueIvy
On secound look, it looks like out of your two cuckoos you have. both look like they have single combs whitch make me think they are most likely related. If it where my project. I would consider a couple opitions,
#1 getting a couple nice solid black silkies to Inprove contrast of stripes and inprove type, for both roo and hen.
Option #2 find a colored silkie desnt matter what color you pick but do pick one to focus on, red, partridge,buff porcelian you name it. And aim for a colored cuckoo. Mixing them with the nicest quality birds you can find will Inprove the offspring each year. Warning a Colored cuckoos will take longer for the color to be evedent.I don't think I would breed the two cuckoos together just becouse i don't think you would have any improvement at all in theyre offspring.
Plus. Just think its kinda creepy to mate brother and sis together.
White will hide what ever color they might have hidden in theyer lineage its like breeding blind, so only use them as a last resort.

 

[Theresa sla]

mama is what i decided to call a silver partridge silkie you can see the penciling clearly on her wings in this photo.

and the dad, my Colombian roo Rothgar the silver partridge was his daughter from last year, i was told to try mating

them back to each other by the kind folks here. and it seemed to do he trick, i got 3 nice looking columbian silkies a handful of silver partridge and then two spare little striped oddball that are not out of cuckoo breeding but kinda look to be?

go figure??