Most of what I have hatching right now is just barnyard mix because this is my first year with an incubator, but I did buy some Cochin hatching eggs that are in there too. That solid black chick is a cross between a white Silkie rooster and a Brahma jersey giant cross.
I’ve got chicks hatching and I made a lot of progress on how I want my whole run area to look. I didn’t take pictures of the run, I’ll have to another day.
It's been a pretty mellow week here. How long have you been breeding your silkie cochins? How did your build turn out? I'm working on finishing a larger run for all my chickens but by next year I will also need to have breeding pens.
Did you ever decide what you thought about that light skin coloring? I was messing around with the genetics calculator for my own project and I crossed a silkie rooster with a cochin hen (from the breed picker). The results were split for black skin, but the skin was phenotypically light in the...