My chocolate silkie project

[Poultrybonkers]

I have a pair of black silkies and a friend hatched an am x silkie mixed thats chocolate my plan is to breed it to my black silkie rooster and keep a silkied black male then breed him to my black hen and keep a silkie chocolate this is where I will keep tabs on it
This is my silkie mix chocolate pullet

its being raised with black silkie chicks was hoping one of these was a male but already seeing leakage on one so not keeping this one as it also is lacking extra toes

the second one looks to be a little better

 

[ColtHandorf]

She has a cute face.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

This pullets 9 weeks now

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Well she has 15 kids before I sold her first hatch was 6 only two were silkied feathered so rest went bye bye (gave them away) heres the parents

The first clutch when they where babies

And these are the only two I kept

the second clutch of 9 so far 5 look like they might be silkied feathered

Really hoping one of these silkied ones is a male as my other black silkie chicks that my broody hatched pretty sure all 5 are pullets

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Havent updated this in months but kept three I thought were males when they where young here they are
9-1-23 hatched one

9-24-23 hatched ones

First one has eggs in the bator from my black hen well see what hatches should get chocolate pullets from them then hes gonna be processed and gonna use the second one he has the least leakage right now

 

[Poultrybonkers]

The oldest rooster was processed but did hatch 7/7 chicks from him and my black hen 4/7 are chocolates!
All the chocolates pullets

The 3 blacks

Them all together so you can see the difference

 

[Poultrybonkers]

All 7 of them lol

 

[Poultrybonkers]

So on the 3 week olds did lose a black one got chilled and another black was having like a seizure but is better now sold two chocolate pullets chicks for $10 each and its either these eggs are very fertile or im a pro silkie hatcher as this next hatch...12/12 hatched!! But heres the sad news...only 2 are chocolate in this batch heres all 12 at a week old now

 

[luckiestck1]

They look great, but i would try for 2 batches from each gen before rehoming because something could happen and you might have to start over.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

They look great, but i would try for to batches from each gen before rehoming because something could happen and you might have to start over.

I hatched 4 ch im keeping two an heir and a spare lol plus a third thats a week old if something happened I wouldnt even bother starting over I would call it quits