splash silkie hen X white silkie rooster?

[bluebellblizzard]

They can't breed for about three or four more months at the soonest so you have time if you so choose to get something else to mix in there. Usually, it's about 8 months with mine. They don't become good at it until they are 10 months to a year.

You should try get a couple more hens for that rooster as one hen will be ragged. They also go broody a lot, so even if you break them, it's about a week before they lay again.

Thank you so much!! I’ll definitely look for other colors. These two were very expensive though lol

 

[bluebellblizzard]

I have different silkie roosters too. I think it’s two whites and a partridge. They’re only 6 weeks old though and i’m not sure if they’re show quality as I got them for free and don’t know anything about their parents.

 

[Debbie292d]

I have different silkie roosters too. I think it’s two whites and a partridge. They’re only 6 weeks old though and i’m not sure if they’re show quality as I got them for free and don’t know anything about their parents.

They can't be sexed at 6 weeks, so if you already were told what they are, they aren't pure silkies, unless they were DNA'd.

They normally can't be sexed until around 3 months and that's even sketchy, but by 4 months it's pretty certain. Five months it's absolute.

 

[bluebellblizzard]

They can't be sexed at 6 weeks, so if you already were told what they are, they aren't pure silkies, unless they were DNA'd.

They normally can't be sexed until around 3 months and that's even sketchy, but by 4 months it's pretty certain. Five months it's absolute.

Well, they’ve been fighting eachother and acting like roosters so I just assumed they were lol. Something I read said you can tell based on if their wattles are coming in yet?

 

[Debbie292d]

Well, they’ve been fighting eachother and acting like roosters so I just assumed they were lol. Something I read said you can tell based on if their wattles are coming in yet?

Even pullets will chest bump. That's no indication. You may have a pullet or two so don't give up hope. Pullets can grow a little wattle too, but then it stops where the cockerels keep growing.

 

[bluebellblizzard]

Even pullets will chest bump. That's no indication. You may have a pullet or two so don't give up hope. Pullets can grow a little wattle too, but then it stops where the cockerels keep growing.

What about their combs? 3/4 of them have large combs.

 

[Debbie292d]

What about their combs? 3/4 of them have large combs.

Can you take a picture? That doesn't sound like silkies either. At six weeks, I can barely see a comb on mine. Plus, a male silkies comb will be all squished up like a walnut and the girls barely get one, but those combs don't become apparent much until they are a few months old.

 

[bluebellblizzard]

Can you take a picture? That doesn't sound like silkies either. At six weeks, I can barely see a comb on mine. Plus, a male silkies comb will be all squished up like a walnut and the girls barely get one, but those combs don't become apparent much until they are a few months old.

I didn’t mean large like my regular chickens, just large compared to one of them that has a tiny comb. I’ll take pics!

 

[Frizzle and Friends]

Serious? I only got into paints recently and read my splash is about worthless as the double white will wash her out.

I don't have a dominant white rooster, yet, but have a paint NN silkie pullet and a black silkie cockerel sibling. I've got an older blue silkie rooster that would work with her too. We'll be trying to start this maybe in the fall as the first two are only 3 mos old. I know those will be half paint/half black or blue depending, then can move on from there to a paint-to-paint and then the dominant white. Whew! Like 3 years worth to get there!

@bluebellblizzard If you ever see a mauve rooster for free or cheap, my splash hen is with one and they make Mauve & Choco Splash pullets, Blue & Splash split Chocolate cockerels, aka, sex-linked though I ignore that as I sell my chicks straight run, but they are the cutest darned chicks!

The blue paints we bred were a mix from a splash mixed rooster crossed to buff laced polish (dominant white). Only one hen hatched with no blue spots, every other one was white with blue leakage.

Since dominant white and splash are two different, unrelated genes they can be mixed to create blue paints and there won't be additional dilution. My guess would be that the issues you read about was splash paints. The the dominant white would only leak the splash in small areas and since those spots would be splash, these birds would pretty much be all white.

 

[Frizzle and Friends]

Is there any chance to get a splash if i breed the white and splash?

Since your rooster is homozygous for dominant white, no. The only thing you could possibly get would be splash paints (pretty much white) from that rooster. That would only happen if he was from a blue paint line and was blue underneath the white. That cross would give you 50% blue paints and 50% splash paints.
This is because a homozygous dominant white bird crossed with a bird with no dominant white genes will produce 100% paint offspring (heterozygous dominant white).
The splash will pass on in a similar way. The hen will give all of her chicks one blue gene, making blue offspring. To get splash birds, you need to find a rooster that will also pass on another blue gene. The offspring that receive a blue gene from both parents will end up splash.

Of you need me to go in depth on blue or paint breeding just ask. I was trying to keep this simple as I can, but it still might be confusing. If you need I will answer any other questions you have.