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    First time silkie hatcher! Chicks seem small for lockdown age

    Do you have any pictures of the eggs? I don't know if it helps, but here's a pic of one of my smallest day 18 Silkies this year. This one hatched out just fine and at the same time as its fuller egg siblings.
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    Help me figure out these mixed breeds!

    I understand she's a mixed breed. Mixed breeds can be fibro too, that just means they have the gene for black skin, fibromelanosis. I was saying she doesn't look like she has the black skin gene. I see paint and splash often get confused. Genetically, splash happens when a chicken has two...
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    Help me figure out these mixed breeds!

    The white chicken isn't splash, she's paint. She has one copy of the dominant white gene over a black base. And I don't really see the "fibro" you're talking about. Her beak looks a little dark, sure, but similar in color to her dad's. She has kind of dark legs, but non-fibro birds can have dark...
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    Pulleys or cockerels? I was guaranteed pulleys

    The only pullet I see is the one in the 2nd photo.
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    Partridge vs Red Leakage

    Have you had her since she was a chick? Was she chipmunk striped as a chick? Partridges hatch with a chipmunk stripe pattern. If she hatched solid blue, then she's a blue with leakage.
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    13 week old Silkie… boy or girl?

    Cockerel.
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    Silkies hen or roo

    I agree that the white one looks like a female and the black one looks male.
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    new chicken breed

    Oh okay, I see what you mean. Out of curiosity, have you considered using Brahmas with Banevelders instead of Cochins? They also have soft feathers and feathered feet, but they're not as round and chunky as cochins. They're a little bigger too and have a more upright stance. Not that I don't...
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    new chicken breed

    I understand, but chat GPT is notorious for getting genetics wrong or not taking into consideration what's realistically possible and what isn't. I still think you could try to breed something very similar, maybe something looking like a blue double laced cochin? I don't think those exist yet...
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    new chicken breed

    I think the idea is good, and your examples certainly look unique, but I'm not quite sure that kind of reversed blue laced red pattern is genetically possible.
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    new chicken breed

    What's your goal with this project?
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    Sapphire gem?

    You can't breed together a bunch of mixed breed birds and expect their chicks to be completely different breeds, based on how they look. They're just mixes of whatever the parents are. I would guess the mom is a blue Wyandotte mix. She's not a sapphire gem, and definitely not a lavender...
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    Help me identify my silkie chick varieties!

    Here's what they look like to me: 1 cuckoo, possibly split to chocolate 2 I'm guessing the mille fleur confetti 3 buff laced frizzle (looks blue based) 4 buff frizzle 5 just looks white to me 6 Buff laced frizzle showgirl (black based) 7 looks like a chocolate 8 blue cream 9 chocolate cuckoo 10...
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    Too early to tell?

    1 and 5 are pullets. The rest I'm leaning towards being cockerels.
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    Gender?

    You're right, all roos.
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