Take a guess 3 month old silkies? New Pic Page 3

[Teresaann24]

wow thats crazy out of 7 I have 6 roos and 1 pullet..LOL I was atleast hoping for more then 1. Lets hope the 7 due to hatch I will get more pullets..LOL

 

[LilPeeps]

LOL

 

[Easter_pink_silkies]

FrizzleXSilkies dont usaully have too big of poofs, but they do grow up to be quite beautiful! heres mine:

I think your (second picture) white is a pullet, all the rest look like Roo's or arnt good enough picture qaulity.

 

[Teresaann24]

He's beautiful! I was hoping when he grew up I could breed him to one of my nice quality hens would their babies have better poofs?

 

[Easter_pink_silkies]

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LOL Ezzyo is a lady.

if you choose the Silkies with the Biggest Tophats and selectivly breed them it would be easy to get the tophats bigger throughout the genarations.

 

[Teresaann24]

I am so sorry! SHE IS BEAUTIFUL...LOL I'm guessing she has a single comb too?

 

[LilPeeps]

If you breed him with females with larger crests, they will improve, but crest size isn't the only thing you should be emphasizing on. You should get around 50% silkie and 50% frizzled silkie from that cross. If you're breeding for frizzled silkies, discard the f1 silkies, as they'd just be a step back. Keep the frizzled babies and cross them back to the better silkies. Do not breed frizzle x frizzle, as you will get curlys.

 

[Easter_pink_silkies]

LOL yeah, its actaully more commen for those kind of mixs to adopt more features from the Cochin than the Silkie, also because single combs are also a recessive silkie gene. i have a pure silkie with the gene and just recently saw a rooster with the gene on this chat board.

 

[LilPeeps]

Single combs are not only common in silkie mixes, but also in many pure, even show lines. It is impossible to tell whether or not a bird that is het for the gene or not until it is crossed with one that is het or homo for the gene and single combs result.

 

[Teresaann24]

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so in the first breeding I breed him with a good quality female? I pick one of the babies frizzles and could I breed it back to the mother?