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Both chicks together. They are a good size as of now. The black and white chick next to them is an olive egger that hatched the day before them, for size comparison.

Chick 2: hatched 3/13/24 is solid yellow with black skin. Muffs and beard are not as pronounced. All these hybrids have perfect feet, unlike my pure silkies I’ve been working so hard on. 🙄😂

Two more hybrid chicks hatched from the same parents, white silkie rooster over salmon faverolle hens. This is mostly to keep track of the chick color vs adult. Wish I had taken photos of the older hybrid as a baby chick! I’ll post updates as they grow. Chick 1: has black stripes down back and...

Ooh he’s so nice! So puffy and the color is actually beautiful. I love the body type too. Sturdy! 👍

Lol that’s a perfect description of it! 😂 I am sort of excited to see what color she’ll end up, if I don’t sell her as a silkie mix.

Yeah the blue one is just so puffy and bigger than the rest. 😊 I’ve paired down to only 3 breeders right now. My rooster is from a good line but it was really hard to get him. I live in Hawaii and it’s almost impossible to get silkies here unless from a big hatchery, and shipping ruins most of...

Yeah I think you’re right. Thank you for reminding me about that- I’ve been culling so hard for that in my existing flock, and weird toes still pops up even though my current breeders all have 5 distinct toes. 😭 I agree that it’s important to make sure these basic traits are preserved in...

Thank you for the feedback! I ended up getting a better looking roo over the last year, from an egg from a breeder who shows. The difference is really great to see- he isn’t perfect but much closer to sop than this white rooster is. I still have my white rooster and am now using him for my...

Chick 5 (cream? no clue what color this one is)

Chicks 3 and 4 (partridges?) these wing feathers look more like what I’d expect from a silkie.

Chick 2 (black)

Thank you all for the advice and for sharing your knowledge about the silkie genes. 😍 Here’s the silkies and satins and their wings. I was most excited about the little blue one (chick 1) but pretty sure it has the satin feathers. The good news is, I think all of them have black skin! Feet...

Ok good to know! I’ll definitely keep an eye on them as they grow and see how they turn out.

Thank you for responding! I think the skin is black on all of them, but I’ll post some photos tomorrow. I’m thinking maybe it would be better to not keep any of them in my silkie pen, because even the ones that have silkie feathering I think might have satin somewhere in their parentage… since...

I was recently gifted 7 silkie chicks from a breeder and thought it would add some much needed genetic diversity to my small flock of purebred silkies. I live in a remote area that makes it very difficult to import new genetics. I didn’t realize until I picked up the chicks that this breeder...