(Mini Project) Rainbow Laying Silkies.

[MysteryChicken]

Hello, gonna be creating silkies that lay colored eggs, besides white, tinted, & cream.
These are to not be confused with Silkied Easter Eggers.

These will have all the traits of a Silkie, but will lay different colored eggs.

Egg colors to be expected: Original, white, tinted, cream. (Colored Eggs: Green, Olive Green, Brown, Chocolate Brown, Blue, Turquoise, Light Blue, Light Green, Mint Chip, Minty, Pastel Greens, Plum, & pink.

These are gonna be of Large Fowl variety.

Order for the Breeding project:

Silkie X Easter Egger X Silkie

Silkie X Black Copper Marans X Silkie

Then breed these first couple mixes together.


Here's a couple egg color charts.

Project will begin next year. Most likely in early summer.

 

[Silviaschicks]

Seems very interesting! Keep updating please

 

[MysteryChicken]

Seems very interesting! Keep updating please

I will.

 

[MysteryChicken]

@PippinTheChicken

 

[JustBabyMargo]

I’m excited to see how this turns out!

 

[MysteryChicken]

I’m excited to see how this turns out!

Same.

 

[FeatherTay]

I love new projects. I hope one day I can understand enough about genetics to start my own project.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I love new projects. I hope one day I can understand enough about genetics to start my own project.

I started one project, & started learning genetics while I was working on it.

I was breeding, & reading.

I'm also still learning.

 

[MysteryChicken]

One thing that maybe a challenge when it comes to collecting the FBCM eggs, is my hen lays 1 egg, every 1-2-3 weeks, instead of 1 egg every other day.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'm planning on getting a couple more FBCMs next spring, so I can get more chocolate brown eggs more often.