Silkies Of A Different Color

[B J Hopkins]

He is pretty!

 

[Theresa sla]

Here he is!

i vote, toutous shell
although the ones i've seen and the one i have, is more dark red gold on gray markings. wile yours has a lovely yellow sheen?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Hello everyone

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wanted to get peoples thoughts on my little hen Bernadette. she's a little over two years old now, but even when she was a chick she was a solid brown fluff ball. i have a good handful of partridge and i don't think she looks partridge but that might just be me? and don't want to call her something she's not.

i emailed the guy i purchased the hatching eggs from and he said he had a few chocolate silkies in his group and often gets chocolate chicks, so i.m hoping thats just what she is. I'm learning the differnce between dun and chocolate and how to breed them. and have her with a solid black roo till i hear there's a better way.

Oh and Sorry about her hair cut i felt like she wound be safer with a hair cut, too many hawks in the neighborhood and i wanted to keep her safe. she just got done raising a brood of chicks and has started laying again. so i'm very excited to hatch some of her eggs
i also promised someone from here some eggs, if your still interested she's laying, but knowing silkies who knows for how long

The variety is named chocolate, regardless of whether it is created with dun or with choc. choc silkies are quite rare; duns are not common, but far more likely.

 

[Theresa sla]

The variety is named chocolate, regardless of whether it is created with dun or with choc.  choc silkies are quite rare; duns are not common, but far more likely.

Dun is what I'm most hopeing for!!
Oh yeah!
I think a khaki silkie would be wounderful
do you have any Sonoran? If so do you have pictures?
My first batch of eggs from my hen will be hatching next week.
do you think I will be able to tell the black from the chocolate right away?
Well if she is dun that is...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Yes, you can see the dilution in the chick down. I've been working on chocolates for about 10 years--dun based ones. I have a pair of chocs, and am intending to add that variety to my repertoire as well.

 

[B J Hopkins]

Sonoran, I have a black Silky hen with a spotty under coat of brown. Would I be able to get chocolate chicks from her? If so, what color should I breed her to?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

To get chocolate coloured birds, you have to have either the dun or choc gene.

 

[VegaJones]

What color would you say Merlin is

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

What color would you say Merlin is

grey

 

[Naamahbengals]

grey

How do you tell gray from blue?