What color is this Silkie? Roo picture added.

[cackle]

Here is the daddy. What would you call his coloring?

 

[stormylady]

Wow I don't know what you call it but I really like him he is sooo neat looking, never seen one that looks like that! Sandy

 

[stephys_fluffybutts]

He is a silver gened black. Most people when breeding try to stay away from that because its hard to get rid of as soon as its introduced.
But they are good to breed to Greys.

He is a gorgeouse boy....

I have had greys hatch out partridge before.
Greys can hatch out all black, white or the chipmunk stripes

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[cackle]

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So should I get him out of my breeding stock? Here is what I have right now:

This Roo (Joe)
a grey hen
I had two black hens but they were killed by possums.

From the three hens eggs I have hatched
3 4 week olds
2 grey and one that looks Joe

1 week old I have
12 white from eggs I bought from a fellow BYCer
1 black
3 chipmunk
4 greys

Should I sell the ones I have and get some other colors to breed with the whites?

I would love to be able to sell hatching eggs and chicks.

 

[silky ma]

I wouldnt get rid of him! I have a roo just like him and what a sweetheart!!!
If you need to just separate him into a second flock with a few grey girls. He cant help who he is!

 

[cackle]

So what is the purpose of breeding the silver genned black to the gray? This is all new to me. Is there a site I can go to learn all this?

He really is beautiful and he follows my husband and me around like a puppy dog. I would hate to have to get rid of him.

 

[stormylady]

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I agree! I think he is beautiful!

 

[FrChuckW]

Thank you for posting a picture of the partridge color. The pair I have I was told were self blues, but now I know they are partridge!

I have a blue splash hen in with them, getting ready to put the bigger babies in there a black, another blue splash and a buff.

 

[LilPeeps]

He's an off colored black. If you want to breed him, cross him with greys, preferably lighter colored females, not blacks. He likely came from black stock.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

All black silkies (for that matter all chickens, regardless of colour) are either gold or silver gened. Males can have a copy of each. The S gene is not what causes the silver hackles!!!

The E-allele of the bird combined with the specific melanizing genes absent from his genetic makeup are why his hackles are not black.

He would be fine bred to greys; he could also be bred to partridge--daughters would be grey; sons would be Ss. The pattern on the offspring might need work.