What's wrong with their feathers?

[KellyHM]

Ok, I have 10 eggs from my F2 girls (3 blue, 1 black) and 4 eggs from my Line B hens (blue) that can ship out tomorrow if anyone wants a batch. The roo for all of them is a silkied blue roo from alice's A Line. I have collected these since Wednesday. I can also hang onto them, collect over the weekend, and send a larger batch out on Monday. I'm going to list an auction for them to go out Monday if nobody here is interested.

 

[KellyHM]

Nicole - eggs are going out this afternoon. Good luck on the black ones!

I can do another batch later this week if anyone needs/wants some. I have F2 hens and Line B hens covered by a Line A silkied roo.

 

[Thespoiledchicken]

Sheesh, Kelly, I'm tired just reading that!

I'm starting to think that most or all of the silkied chicks I'm growing are cockerels. Has anyone else experienced this? They're still fairly young so I'm hoping I'm wrong!

Interesting Nicole. Out of the group I hatched from you 3 are silkied- and those three are roos! The other smooth feathered splits I sold as Easter Eggers. Interesting if you are hatching all Silkied Roos

Trish

 

[KellyHM]

Interesting Nicole. Out of the group I hatched from you 3 are silkied- and those three are roos! The other smooth feathered splits I sold as Easter Eggers. Interesting if you are hatching all Silkied Roos

Trish

The last batch of eggs I got from alice I got 1 silkied chick and she turned out to be a beautiful little hen.

Nicole - it will be interesting to see the gender ratio on the eggs I just sent you!

 

[NicoleRM]

They're going to be all silkied black pullets!

I think I just have bad luck, honestly. Or some really manly pullets. It wouldn't make sense for it to be sex-linked or anything like that.

 

[jojobobo61]

those look like silky ameraucana crosses xD

 

[KellyHM]

Hopefully you've read this thread and that was a joke. If not,

 

[urbanchickymama]

Hopefully you've read this thread and that was a joke. If not,

After reading all 2,167 posts in 2 days, i second that motion!! I am relieved and also disappointed to have reached the end of this thread, but I am so excited to see the further generations of this wonderful variation!! They're the most gorgeous chickens in the entire world, the roos are so REGAL!
One thing I've noticed from this thread is that of the chickies that make it to hatch, a seemingly disproportionate number are boys. Odds also seem to favor silkiness even when statistically they shouldn't.
Is there still a chart going? Alice had an open spreadsheet or something awhile back, it'd be interesting to tally everything up and possibly get clues as to which traits are popping up more often- there's been some variation in egg color, leg color, comb shape, etc.
I'm a total chicka-newbie but I thought I'd add my $.02 as an objective observer!

 

[AMA Chick]

Oh my goodness! I started reading this thread yesterday afternoon, and only stopped to sleep!

This is sooo interesting, I love the fluffy babies, someday, it would be fun to own some. I'm VERY IMPRESSED with all of the original project members for being so dedicated to this, especially since there has been so many heartbreaking losses

 

[NicoleRM]

So I have a question about showing. Could these birds be shown as AOV Ameraucanas or does the silkied aspect disqualify them somehow?