Thank you! That was very informative. One more questions, I saw someone advertising a hen as buff split for lavender. Is that even a thing? I thought that lavender bred to buff would make all black offsprings.
While you are here, I'm interested in the isabel/blue cream color. (I'm not raising any silkies or otherwise, just curiosity.)
1. How do breeders introduce the cream color into the self blue color?
2. If you breed a lavender to a blue cream and get lavender, will that cream show up in future...
If this is from the same person who has the blue cream/porcelain maybe its a lavender over buff. I'm not sure how many generations it takes to get the cream in the isabel color.
It all depends on the personalities in your flock. My large fowl and smalls get along, but my flock is very docile and laid back. My standard rooster is huge and he doesn't care about the bantam girls, nor does he bother with the roosters. I'm not certain he even considers them the same species...
I hope you get 100% hatch. I'm looking forward to seeing the lemon cuckoos. Porcelain is the same as blue cream in silkies. It's isabel in orpingtons or brahmas. I didn't realize that anyone had bred crele silkies. Those should all be really interesting.
It's not so much the color genetics that I was referring to. I was thinking that because the silkie feathers are so fine, the color might look completely different? Like the porcelain/Blue Cream silkies color looks so different than isabel orpingtons or brahmas, even though it's the same color...