What colors do I have/need?

[kews]

I currently have 5 silkies- these 3 (2 lavender with leakage? and partridge roo), 2 black frizzled satin (one with red comb/ears). What color roo should I be looking for? I was thinking of a buff to breed for a project pen to create silkied Salmon Favorelle, but I also want to breed the silkies. I would like to be able to have one large pen with 1 roo to 6-8 hens.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

I don't think that is lavender. It is a diluted splash to me. This is mine. I would suggest asking at Silkies Simply Spectacular thread. There are color genetic geniuses over there. I have a blue roo and mine have turned out gorgeous! It just depends on what you're wanting. What are you wanting?

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Also, how would you get salmon in a silkie?

 

[kews]

Salmon in silkie would be a cross breed (just something I am interested in). As to my silkies, I honestly love all the colors, even the crazy ones. I would need to rehome some of the babies, so I would want at least pet quality.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Salmon in silkie would be a cross breed (just something I am interested in). As to my silkies, I honestly love all the colors, even the crazy ones. I would need to rehome some of the babies, so I would want at least pet quality.

So you're looking to have a salmon colored silkie or a salmon faverolle silkie cross? I wouldn't ever get a black silkie roo because you would only get black chicks (there are exceptions). You could get a recessive white roo and he could have all sorts of colors in his genetics and then you could get partridged chicks or blue something like that. For instance, I have a white hen bred to my blue roo and I got a silver partridge because she had partridge underneath. With the diluted splash with red leakage that will be hard to determine whether or not the babies got the red. Splash is a diluted gene and bred to blue would give you 50% blue 50% splash. Also, did you know that the first chicken in your pics is a roo?

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

@LynnaePB @LadiesAndJane @HuffleClaw Could you guys pitch in on this? I know you all are WAY better at genetics than me.

 

[kews]

Also, did you know that the first chicken in your pics is a roo?

Yes, I did. I got him before learning all the genetics ins and outs. Someone had told me that I needed a partridge to go over my Salmon Favorelle.
Silkied Salmon Favorelle- my goal is a Salmon Favorelle with silkies feathers, better laying than silkies, and more winter hardy than silkies.

And I think one of my black satin frizzled silkies is a roo. I have to try to get better pictures of the two (and a way to tell them apart)

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Yes, I did. I got him before learning all the genetics ins and outs. Someone had told me that I needed a partridge to go over my Salmon Favorelle.
Silkied Salmon Favorelle- my goal is a Salmon Favorelle with silkies feathers, better laying than silkies, and more winter hardy than silkies.

And I think one of my black satin frizzled silkies is a roo. I have to try to get better pictures of the two (and a way to tell them apart)

Well, silkies are pretty hardy already. You're going to be doing a lot of back and forth breeding to turn a smooth chicken to a silkied!

 

[kews]

You're going to be doing a lot of back and forth breeding to turn a smooth chicken to a silkied!

yup. But it will keep me busy I figure at least 3 generations of breeding mother/son, father/daughter

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

yup. But it will keep me busy I figure at least 3 generations of breeding mother/son, father/daughter

Maybe