silkie genetics

I recently bought 6 silkies from a friend. They were supposed to be two breeding trios. With two roosters and four hens. But I’m thinking it’s three roosters and three hens. I posted on a silkie group on Facebook to see what other peoples opinions were and several people pointed out that my...

GENETICS QUESTION. When I put my last batch in the incubator I had that showgirl rooster over those silkies. All regular silkies. I had a satin showgirl hatch from that. At the time they where all in the same pen for months ahead. After seperated they've only been with that regular silkie...

Hello! I will be breeding a silkie rooster to a bantam brahma and a frizzle bantam cochin. The 2 non-silkie girls live with my silkies and I figured that since I'm probably gonna accidentally mix their eggs in with the silkie hatching eggs, I might aswell purposely hatch some chicks from them. I...

I have this silkie boy. I'm 90% sure his mom was paint and dad was buff (came from a mixed color pen. My guess is based off the photos I was sent). I really want to breed either paints or bbs. I was thinking I'd keep black hens and 2 roos - one blue or blue partridge and this boy. I've been...

I have 2 chicks that I really want to keep. They come from better lines than mine. Unfortunately I think they're both gonna be cockerels. If one ends up being a pullet than this whole thing won't matter anymore, but assuming they're cockerels which one would be better to keep? They're 4 weeks...

I have a silkie I thought was a dominant white, but he started getting beige in the wing tips, back, neck and a few buffy looking pin feathers at the base of his tail. He also recently got a black feather on his wing. And now there's 2 buff looking feathers in his wings. My theory is that his...

I'm positive I accidentally posted this in the wrong spot so feel free to move it to somewhere more fitting. A silkie chick just hatched. I know who both parents are. Mom is my broody hen Misty (black silkie) and dad is Fluffy (black silkie roo with slight silver leakage in his neck). Chick is...

I hatched 6 silkie chicks a couple days ago. 2 lavender, 2 that are supposed to have biggest crests, beards and leg floof and 2 chicks from my own chickens (1 of those is a silkie × bantam brahma). In short I had eggs from 3 different places and 2 chicks hatched from every place. I still have 6...

I have black silkie roosters with gold and silver leakage. What does color leakage mean? I was told it gives you a better idea of their genetics, but how exactly? I just need someone to explain it to me. And why is it not wanted in breeding? I'm about to hatch a couple chicks from my black...

What colors make a mauve silkie? And what should you breed back to it?

I'm sorry if I have posted this in the wrong place. Feel free to move it if it is. I have a black silkie rooster. I'm getting him 3 black hens this March. If I'm correct that should result in black chicks. Lately I've been thinking of getting him like 2 hens of another color so hatching chicks...

Hello everyone! I haven’t been on here in awhile so excuse me if I missed something, but I just got 5 paints for breeding. I have 1 rooster and 4 hens at the moment. I do not know what their lineage is but I can ask the breeder if need be. What I need to know is what will happen when I breed my...

Hello! I recently hatched a couple baby chicks from my two silkies. My roo is a reddish-buff color with a little black leakage only in the tail. My hen is grey. To my surprise, my baby chicks look to be paints! They are both light yellow with some dark patches. What do you think? What color...

I aquired a few Silkie eggs on part trade for some hens, and they started hatching this morning. They came from a pen with a Paint rooster, 2 Paint hens, and a Partridge hen (if I remember right though she was smooth, making her a possible mutt). I’m working with Paints this year, so I planned...

Can first generation silkie cross chicks have silkie feathering? So this chick was a surprise hence her name SURI. My white silkie roo was about 8mos and was taken by a fox the day this chick popped out of an egg from under my broody silkie frizzle girl. I had tried everything to break her...

I've got some Silkie/satin/frizzle eggs in my incubator right now from a well known breeder. She has beautiful birds! I'd like to show them with my 4-H'er. I don't know too much about the breeding standard, but the one major flaw that I've noticed in her pics are some red/pink combs. I was...

Hi! Can anyone tell me what silkie color my beloved Rooster "Stew" is? I'm a bit confused between splash, blue, and paint. Also, I have a blonde silkie "Chikira"...what color would she be considered? Thanks!

Hello :) We just hatched 3 silkies. Both parents are all black but the chicks are not. Is that common? Also one has pale feet but I though they all had black feet.

I have a blue cream silkie chick I would like to eventually work into my breeding program. Can you breed a blue cream rooster to blue, black and splash hens like a blue roo? Will this give leakage? If a hen could she be bred to a blue rooster or a red pyle? Or will the blue darken the colors too...