What should I cross ??

[RAREROO]

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They should also make good incubators and brooders.

Yep, I have a bantam hen that is Silkie crossed with somthing and she is a good broody hen.

 

[IwannaBEaMERMAID]

SEXLINKED !! WHAT COLOR WILL THE FEMALE CHICKS BE !! Muahahahah I can get rid of the males sooner !!

 

[RAREROO]

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They would be red like RIR chicks . Did you get your Red Silkie roo from Ideal ? Do you have pics of him ?

 

[Celtic Hill]

Make two pens, one for the Cochins, and one for the Silkies!

 

[IwannaBEaMERMAID]

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They would be red like RIR chicks . Did you get your Red Silkie roo from Ideal ? Do you have pics of him ?

All my chickens are from IDEAL, I dont have a recent picture of him because he doesn't live with me anymore, but i have another picture.

Hold on.

 

[IwannaBEaMERMAID]

PICTURES !

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=278186&p=54

 

[phasianidae]

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females:

males:

 

[IwannaBEaMERMAID]

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females:https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/71540_zwartroodgezoomd.jpgmales:https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/71540_mzwartgeelgezoomd.jpg

They are going to be laced ??

Thats makes them better

 

[RAREROO]

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females:https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/71540_zwartroodgezoomd.jpgmales:https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/71540_mzwartgeelgezoomd.jpg

They are going to be laced ??

Thats makes them better

No, The Red that was put in for that calulator is more like a red columbian and red silkies dont have have the columbian markings. They may have some v shaped penciled lacing scattered here and there, but wont have near the laceing that those pictures how.

I had forgotten that red silkies are more of a Buff color than actuall red so your pullets would probably be lighter and buff colored instead of red.

This is a Sexlink pullet from a cross of a Buff Orp roo on a Silver laced Wyandotte hen. This is basically the color you would get in yours. She is mostly buff but has some weak black ticking in the hackles and tail.

 

[phasianidae]

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They are going to be laced ??

Thats makes them better

No, The Red that was put in for that calulator is more like a red columbian and red silkies dont have have the columbian markings. They may have some v shaped penciled lacing scattered here and there, but wont have near the laceing that those pictures how.

I had forgotten that red silkies are more of a Buff color than actuall red so your pullets would probably be lighter and buff colored instead of red.

This is a Sexlink pullet from a cross of a Buff Orp roo on a Silver laced Wyandotte hen. This is basically the color you would get in yours. She is mostly buff but has some weak black ticking in the hackles and tail.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/37373_sexlink.jpg

thanks, on the side white silkies are actually buff silkies with two copies of recessive white so if you use them in a cross with, for example, a hen with the silver gene, you would get silver/buff males and buff females.