Will Silkies cross breed with others(marans, rhode, legbars etc..)?

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6 Red rhode, 3 marans, 3 legbars, 3 leghorns, and 3 silkie , all hens and 2 silkie rooster. Will they cross breed?

 

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[Break an Egg]

Yes they will, the silkie roos will mate with non silkie hens and silkie hens will mate with other breed roos.

 

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[SilkiesAndSuch]

They will crossbreed, but none of the chicks from the first generation will have silkie feathering(unless the other birds have a hidden silkie feathering gene-unlikely, but possible) If you mate the crossbreed chicks with a silkie, the chicks could have silkie feathering

 

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what about the other way? In my bantam coop I have a silkie roo with five silkie hens as well as a red cochin (frizzle trait) roo and nine red cochins, some of whom are frizzled.

I've just been collecting the eggs, but we wondered, since we have a couple hens who really want to brood, what we would end up with if we let them hatch.

If a silkie roo mated with a frizzled cochin, what we would get?

If a cochin roo mated with a silkie, what would we get?

And, if my non-frizzled cochin roo mated with a frizzled and non-frizzled cochin, what would we get?

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