The American Paint Silkie

[sager:)silkies]

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they breed it to a mottled houdan i have one of those

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

That is why you have to keep breeding back to silkies and refining and fine tuning. According to the SOP, type makes the breed. Chickens do not have pedigrees (although most breeders keep records); if the bird meets the standard, it IS the breed or variety. That said, you really want it to produce offspring with the same or better type and where the variety is predictable, and getting htere is part of the fine tuning.

When you are dealing with dominant genes, you can get a very good looking bird in the first cross, but the second generation will throw a lot of oddballs as all the other genes start pairing up in ways you did not even imagine. The farther you are into generations, the more of those oddball genes you can lose and get closer and closer to getting it right.

 

[sager:)silkies]

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so lets see if i made sense of this so u breed a white silkie to a mottled cochin and then u put the chicks back to the silkie and then do that over and over again

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

If your first cross is to a polish, then the F1s are 50% silkie, 50% polish.
Cross them back to silkies and your F2s are 75% silkie and 25% polish.
Cross them back to silkies and your F3s are 87.5% silkie and 12.5% polish.
Cross them back to silkies and your F4s are 93.75% silkie and 6.25% polish.

Now if you have to cross back to the other breed to reinforce the trait you are breeding in, it will take much longer. But that is how you breed in a gene that is not present in the breed.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

sagersilkies :

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so lets see if i made sense of this so u breed a white silkie to a mottled cochin and then u put the chicks back to the silkie and then do that over and over again

BLACK silkie; definitely not a white. WAY too much you would be adding that you do not want.​

 

[sager:)silkies]

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so lets see if i made sense of this so u breed a white silkie to a mottled cochin and then u put the chicks back to the silkie and then do that over and over again

BLACK silkie; definitely not a white. WAY too much you would be adding that you do not want.

lol i just didnt know

 

[sager:)silkies]

sagersilkies :

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BLACK silkie; definitely not a white. WAY too much you would be adding that you do not want.

lol i just didnt know​

could u tell me how to make paint because in canada u cant get them and i really want them

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

It would be far less time, effort and money to import one than to deliberately try to create one. Especially since we don't know the exact genotype that creates paint.

The European lines have been in development for over ten years. The US lines were an "accident."

 

[sager:)silkies]

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I plan on it next spring just need to find someone i can buy eggs off of

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

sagersilkies :

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I plan on it next spring just need to find someone i can buy eggs off of

Are you a member of the silkie club?​