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Oh my goodness! You know all the fun stuff @LynnaePB! She has some seriously beautiful satins!There are some breeders working on mille fleur projects who are starting to breed some porcelains as well in satins.
This breeder on Facebook has a porcelain satin you can see. Her post from January 20th shows a porcelain on a book page and her post from December 16th shows the original picture. She's got some younger porcelains you can see too but the pattern isn't really easily seen on the young ones. I expect some other breeders working on mille fleur may expand to porcelain as well. Porcelain is just mille fleur diluted by lavender. They have other fun colors too like confetti which is mille fleur with barring added.
https://www.facebook.com/LaurenTaylorChickens/
Oh congratulations on the adorable new babies!!!
I hope more of the ones still in the incubator hatch for you too!
And the porcelain color is as gorgeous as I imagined!!
OMGeeze! Thank u sooo much for sharing her info with me! She has some beautiful babies!!!There are some breeders working on mille fleur projects who are starting to breed some porcelains as well in satins.
This breeder on Facebook has a porcelain satin you can see. Her post from January 20th shows a porcelain on a book page and her post from December 16th shows the original picture. She's got some younger porcelains you can see too but the pattern isn't really easily seen on the young ones. I expect some other breeders working on mille fleur may expand to porcelain as well. Porcelain is just mille fleur diluted by lavender. They have other fun colors too like confetti which is mille fleur with barring added.
https://www.facebook.com/LaurenTaylorChickens/
Oh congratulations on the adorable new babies!!!
I hope more of the ones still in the incubator hatch for you too!
Oh my goodness! You know all the fun stuff @LynnaePB! She has some seriously beautiful satins!
So I have a rookie question—how do you get satins? Are they a specific cross? Always using Polish? Or do they also use Cochins? What about crossing a MF with a Silkie? I’m just curious! I have a bantam Cochin rooster and I might consider hatching some eggs by him if he is ever accepted by the bantam ladies. So far he’s kept his substance from both Betty and Fuzzy and I’m not sure that the other Cochin ladies are quite ready for him yet. He has been focusing his attention on the same 7 standard ladies that my Ameraucana boys are sharing and not only is he too small but they don’t like it and he’s being chased by the roos and pecked and chased by the ladies! I want him to leave them alone so the ladies don’t get overwhelmed. I have 12 females but only 7 being harassed! Best way to convince him to chill out? Or will I just need to rehome him if things keep up? I really wanted a chance at Silkie-Cochins to see if I might get satins!
I hope you are able to find a good solution though, I'm sure your silkies and him would make some adorable babies! 
Thank you! That’s really helpful! I’m going to carefully ponder the path I want to take…it’s tough because I like silkies, Cochins, MFs and Ameraucanas and all of them are intriguing breeds to potentially consider breeding someday.I agree, she really does have some gorgeous birds!
A lot of satins started with a cochin x silkie cross but they aren't really considered satins until they are bred back to the silkie standard by back crossing to silkies for multiple generations. They are considered by a lot of enthusiasts as a project breed that is bred to the same standard as silkies other than feather type. Cochins are a good choice if starting your own satin line because their overall type is already similar to a silkie. You can use other breeds too but you may have more work getting back to the correct type. Polish type is very different but they do have the advantage of that nice crest. The mille fleur satins were actually started using I believe tolbunt polish, mille fleur cochins, and mille fleur d'uccles and crossing with satins and silkies.
Getting already established satins from a good line is definitely the easiest and cheapest (in the long run) way of getting satins. Having some fun cochin/silkie mixes would definitely be neat too though and while maybe not technically satins yet they'd be adorable! Of course if the journey to get from the initial cross to satins really appeals to you the cost and effort of starting your own line just might be worth it!
I'm afraid I don't have any good advice on how to help your little cochin boy chill out. I have way too many boys to know what to do with and they drive me nuts!
Of course you are very welcome!
New color development projects sure are fascinating and so neat to follow along with! Lauren definitely knows her stuff when it comes to mille fleur satins. I'm really enjoying learning from her posts in the mille fleur silkies and satin group on Facebook (I usually just lurk, but soak up everything I can).
Oh what gorgeous colors!!!These four cuties hatched yesterday.
They will move over to the brooder later today. Getting blue chicks from Kana so far!
One chick still working on hatching in the incubator!
Thanks!
Yes, please try to get a video for us
They are cute! That's cool that the breeder does have a public page, I have never been in fb an always only can see the public things.There are some breeders working on mille fleur projects who are starting to breed some porcelains as well in satins.
This breeder on Facebook has a porcelain satin you can see. Her post from January 20th shows a porcelain on a book page and her post from December 16th shows the original picture. She's got some younger porcelains you can see too but the pattern isn't really easily seen on the young ones. I expect some other breeders working on mille fleur may expand to porcelain as well. Porcelain is just mille fleur diluted by lavender. They have other fun colors too like confetti which is mille fleur with barring added.
https://www.facebook.com/LaurenTaylorChickens/
Omg they are beautifulThese four cuties hatched yesterday.
They will move over to the brooder later today. Getting blue chicks from Kana so far!
One chick still working on hatching in the incubator!
Adorable What a great offerAnyone here on the thread interested in FREE Silkie hatching eggs? I would not charge for the eggs just postage. I am getting so many fertile eggs and I just can’t incubate anymore! At least not for a while. I still have 32 eggs in incubators waiting to hatch!
This is a very temporary offer and you would need to be ready to incubate immediately.
I think I’m saturating the market here with my Silkies!
PM me if you are interested!
