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ottbjumper06 said:
These are some EE babies from my second to last (planned) hatch.

Ive been having a crazy idea lately, I've been wanting a silkie bird that lays a blue egg. how would I go about achieving that? I was thinking a silkie pullet over an EE roo. ideas?
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I too would like Silkies that lay blue eggs. Not Silkied Ameraucanas - but black skinned silkied feather foofy crest Silkies. I think an AM roo over Silkie Pullets would work - if you had a small AM - not one of the big boys that mine are growing into. So... I think I will go with a Silkie rooster over an AM hen - and then bred the girls back to their silkied father for the silkied feathers again - but only the ones that lay blue eggs. It might take awhile to get a strain that has two blue egg laying gene - and going back to the AMs again (possibly with the slightly larger daughters - I don't know) but that may be a future project. I might even put the Silkie boy I have (Partridge) over the EE hens - they lay a nice blue egg, my AMs lay GREEN!
 
Thought I share what my EE's won last week at our local fair
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draye said:
I'm sure somewhere down the line there were Silkies mixed in.
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I used to get these or at least similar 20+ years ago.Mine came from silvers mostly.I always culled mine.Mine were really rough looking.The wing feathers never looked truly silkied.I never could prove silkie blood and considered it a mutation.Anyway it was in the breed a long time ago and would pop up from time to time.Have not had one in years.
 
2StrayRoos said:
Thought I share what my EE's won last week at our local fair
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Congratulations, beautiful eggs.

draye said:
Quote: There are so many things that even one Silkie would change if added to a line of AMs that it would be obvious for at least 10 generations - including 5 toes, black (NOT WHITE) skin, crests, black eyes, blue ears, feathered legs and toes (almost impossible to get rid of totally for probably more than 50 generations, just look at all the culls with stubs in early AM breedings when they used a featherleg, they STILL have problems pop up 30 years later), totally different body shape, bantam size, etc.. etc...

I do believe them when they say it was a spontaneous mutation of the feather gene. Add the above Silkie information to the fact that they have had to breed full siblings and parents back and forth to try and keep it and their birds have suffered in health and had other problems because of that excessive inbreeding. If you could just toss a Silkie in the pen and take the chicks and breed back and keep the Silkied feathers they wouldn't have needed to do that. Silkied feathers are recessive, you need two copies to show.
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