Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[PioneerChicks]

Oh, I'm collecting eggs for hatching again! We should have some silkies, silkie/bantam orp mixes, and possibly even a silkie/game bantam mix!

 

[PioneerChicks]

Random cool fact, I have a friend who whenever one of her hens goes broody I just give her fertile eggs and she hatches them. One that hatched was a silkie/game bantam mix that I also had a couple of.

Well, just the other day she found her mix sitting on a hidden clutch of eggs, which was exactly my experience! Hopefully I can get her some eggs soon, otherwise she'll just have to break her hen.

So this just proves that silkie/game bantams who were raised by broodies make wonderful mothers!

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Looks great! I am trying to figure out a way to separate the silkies for breeding this Spring as well.

How many do you have again?

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Oh, I'm collecting eggs for hatching again! We should have some silkies, silkie/bantam orp mixes, and possibly even a silkie/game bantam mix!

I wish my silkies would lay!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

How many do you have again?

I have three pullets and one cockerel. Currently they are with a mixed flock.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

I have three pullets and one cockerel. Currently they are with a mixed flock.

What colors are they?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

What colors are they?

White cockerel. Splash, white and blue partridge pullets. Found out with test breeding (my hybrid experiment) that my cockerel is recessive white and carries blue.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

White cockerel. Splash, white and blue partridge pullets. Found out with test breeding (my hybrid experiment) that my cockerel is recessive white and carries blue.

You do know if you bred blue partridge to blue partridge you could get a calico? How did you do test breeding?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

You do know if you bred blue partridge to blue partridge you could get a calico? How did you do test breeding?

I bred him to some of my standards to see what colors he would produce and also just for fun. Because bred to black he produced both black and blue chicks, he then must carry or "hide" blue. Will see what he produces with the pullets I have.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

I bred him to some of my standards to see what colors he would produce and also just for fun. Because bred to black he produced both black and blue chicks, he then must carry or "hide" blue. Will see what he produces with the pullets I have.

That's neat! One of my white or my blue roo holds the silver gene and partridge.