The American Paint Silkie

[Coops4me]

wanted to share some of paint babies pics these are 2 month old now.

 

[Iluvmysilkies]

wanted to share some of paint babies pics these are 2 month old now.

So pretty! How are they already soo fluffy with those full crests at 2 months? I have some nice quality babes I just took pics of at 2mths as well. They have full crests to but not like yours. Yours even look bigger.

 

[Coops4me]

I'm sorry I stand corrected they are 2 1/2 months old. Here are some pics of the parents. The lav is 4 months old in picture he is father of the first main paint. and second picture is of him with the mother. A black paint,very nice surprise,rest are blks.

 

[Coops4me]

the other paints are out of a Bobbi Porto white male to a paint female out of Judy Lee's line. Here's a picture of the father


this one is 1 1/2 months old out of the white male.

 

[Iluvmysilkies]

the other paints are out of a Bobbi Porto white male to a paint female out of Judy Lee's line. Here's a picture of the father


this one is 1 1/2 months old out of the white male.

They look great. And that white roo looks awesome! Mine are getting fluffier by the day. I think their crests will be very full to.

 

[KenleighFarms]

I have just found this thread, so am trying to read up on 198 pages worth LOL. My question for those that have been breeding in the black or the white into the paint pens. When the offspring is white or a black, what do you do with that offspring. Do you place it back in with paints?

Have any of you tried to have solely a white pen that consists of whites that were born out of a paint pen and what is their offspring looking like? Likewise, the blacks hatched out of a paint over black breeding (both being splits). If they are placed with other blacks from that same crossover, what are your results?

I have true blacks in my paint pen. All pullets are black and all paints are roosters as that is just how the ball rolled here. However, I have brought in several different lines to add some diversity to my pen for 2015. I plan on paintxpaint, paintxblack, and blackxpaint. However, if I can find an outstanding silver gene white, I will do a pen with that over paints as well. So the end question is this....do you see any paints coming from a black split to a black split, or a white split to a white split? Thanks in advance and back to reading here =).

 

[paris_r]

if you have any black paints breed those back to your paints to get bigger spots. i breed paint and black to paint. read this article and note the different whites
http://www.chickencolours.com/Translation Dutch paint articleX.pdf

 

[KenleighFarms]

Yes this is why we place the black in with the paints. What I was wondering though, if you bred the black splits together, what is the outcome? Do you ever get paints or just blacks from that breeding. In my orpington pens, we do splits all the time because the english gene is not diverse enough in the US. So when you breed splits to splits, you get a percentage of blacks and a then percentage of splits and what ever color you had split too. There were debates on whether or not the blacks that came from the paint pens are a true split and would breed as you do splits together. I know Judy is working on this as well. I have some that are in the 5 month age, so I was going to try it here as well, but wanted to know if anyone has indeed done it and what were the results?

 

[paris_r]

i only have black hens so i cant try that for you. what gets me is the amazing variety i got from my breeder bought paint and my hatchery black hen. i got 4 blacks, 2 buffish types(but still have one black partial feather)-see below hen is the paler one, and 4 paints. they have a white base so all the colour is in the last 1/2 of the feathers. both were born off white/yellow, not white like my paints.

here is a good side shot of the male, his dad does have that brown that paints get, but really where did all this come from???

 

[KenleighFarms]

Hi Everyone,
I was hoping you could help me. I am looking for some black and white paint Silkie hatching eggs. I really love the bearded Silkies with the big spots. I am also interested in having a couple Showgirls in the mix. If I understand correctly, you can have paint and black in the same pen to achieve the paint chicks, right? Can you all let me know how has the b&w paints? We have several colors of Silkies now, but I would like to choose one color (sorta) and just work with that. Thank you ahead for all of your help. Lisa ~ Fort Christmas Farm

Check with Bobbi Porto on facebook. She is in FL as well. I don't know if she does hatching eggs though.