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  1. Slothinc

    Mottled silkies?

    Oh wow, they are absolutely gorgeous!!!! I am so excited for you!! Please keep us posted on your projects! Are you doing sex linked projects with the chocolate gene? I would love being able to do that. I have in my incubator blue creams and some cuckoos in various colors. (If they hatch! We had...
  2. Slothinc

    Mottled silkies?

    @Timbers Happy Hens that makes perfect sense! I believe it’s possible to get paint satins right off the bat with that pairing, as approx 50% of the babies should be paint and approx 50% black. Then depending on if your hen carries two copies of satin, all the babies would be satin, or if she...
  3. Slothinc

    Mottled silkies?

    Just took other pics of the splay leg Mille pen chick who is doing a lot better now. I just googled Mille chicks and it seems like if these were going to be Mille then they would have brown heads? So I am thinking possibly I have all mottled chicks (which is actually what I prefer anyways :D)
  4. Slothinc

    Mottled silkies?

    Sorry pics didn’t attach, here they are. If you have any insight as to what the Mille chicks may look like as adults, let me know. Right now they seem very similar to the mottled chicks. The last chick is out the black/paint pen (mislabeled) and then the 3 NN are mottled pen, and the other 3...
  5. Slothinc

    Mottled silkies?

    @Timbers Happy Hens that sounds like a great place to start!! Are you trying to get more black silkies/satins out of the paint/black pairing to then cross to the mottled babies? I will happily post pics!! There are 3 NN and those three are out of a mottled x mottled satin frizzle pen, so I’m...
  6. Slothinc

    Mottled silkies?

    I learned a lot from this thread! I just hatched some shipped eggs that are (project pen) mottled silkies and also Mille silkies. I’m super excited to see how the my end up as adults. Thanks for posting the pics you found of mottled silkies. And the genetics behind them is fascinating. @Timbers...
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