You can use any color of silkie if your only goal is mottling and silkied feathers. Though I wouldn’t use white, as that’s recessive too, and might completely cover up the mottling in successive generations.
Using buff silkies, I think you would just get buff birds in the F1s, necause the mottling is recessive.
Is there a brown silkie? Idk. There is a splash but isn't that gray? I think the mille fleur d'Uccle is brown , black and white. Maybe a silkie called a Chocolate Silkie? I don't know it's name. It's probably solved by now. I just wanted to weigh in.
I didn’t mean to say you’d get mottling in the first generation, though I might’ve worded it weirdly. I mentioned that any color can be used if all they want is mottling and silkied feathers. However, if the OP wants a silkied bird that is also of the Mille fleur variety, then using a buff silkie will get them closer to what they want.
“Mottled buff columbian” is the sort of genetic name for mille fleur.
I did see them and wondered if they would work, but I don't think mypetchicken has them. It seems to be the only place where you can buy only 3 at a time.
May I ask why buff? Because it matches the mfd? Because the mfd is brown, black, and white- all silkie colors. If there is another genetic reason I'd love to know...I just started learning about all the different genetics and it can get confusing!
