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What colors make a mauve silkie? And what should you breed back to it?
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What colors make a mauve silkie? And what should you breed back to it?
All the males will be split to Chocolate so you won't need to test breed them.Looks like it only works with the chocolate rooster because it is sex linked and the blue hen. You can use a splash hen as well. In this case you will get blue boys and mauve girls.
If you use a chocolate hen and a blue rooster, you will just get black and blue offspring and they will not be sex linked. The boys, though, will be split to chocolate, but no way of knowing which ones unless you breed them back to chocolate. All this is of course assuming the birds used do not have any recessive genetics for other colors (like recessive white or carry partridge which many Silkies do.)
Looks like it only works with the chocolate rooster because it is sex linked and the blue hen. You can use a splash hen as well. In this case you will get blue boys and mauve girls.Oh, wow! Very nice. Thanks so much!
And, what about a blue rooster and a chocolate hen?
I believe so! Chicks should come out black paint, chocolate paint, black and chocolate if I am not mistaken. (I could be....). The chocolates and chocolate paint hatched should be pullets as well.Oh, duh. I have a blue rooster right now and I wondered if I could just get a chocolate hen, but I guess not!
Oh yeah, that's just another thing to worry about. LOL. All the colors are just so cute, and I want them all! But can't find a way to work them into my current flock.
One more question, can you get chocolate paint from a paint hen and a chocolate roo?