- Apr 23, 2015
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I saw a faverolles/silkie cross once and immediately fell in love. they are so funny looking. so i made some. this is my first time breeding my own chickens.
this is Fred, a partridge silkie so divine that the heavens open up and smile upon her and a choir of angels sing wherever she goes
and Large Marge, the soul of a old man who smokes 90 cigarettes a day in the body of a salmon faverolles.
the result:
4/5 eggs i set hatched, unfortunately, the silvery one and the chipmunk one in the back ultimately didn't make it. it would have been cool to see how they turned out, i was surprised to get a silver one.
the chicken calculator said i would get cream duckwing hens and golden duckwing roosters from this cross. i assumed chipmunk and silver were hens and the two yellow ones were roos.
However at about 3 weeks old they both look wheaten, with some weak pencilling from the silkie. one has a distinctly white chest and leg feathers, so i assume she's a hen. the other one i think is a roo, but where a faverolles roo would be clearly black is washed out.
i wish i understood anything about chicken genetics
anyway I'm a bit surprised this cross isn't more common. they are so sweet and cute. and they have good taste in tv.
this is Fred, a partridge silkie so divine that the heavens open up and smile upon her and a choir of angels sing wherever she goes
and Large Marge, the soul of a old man who smokes 90 cigarettes a day in the body of a salmon faverolles.
the result:
4/5 eggs i set hatched, unfortunately, the silvery one and the chipmunk one in the back ultimately didn't make it. it would have been cool to see how they turned out, i was surprised to get a silver one.
the chicken calculator said i would get cream duckwing hens and golden duckwing roosters from this cross. i assumed chipmunk and silver were hens and the two yellow ones were roos.
However at about 3 weeks old they both look wheaten, with some weak pencilling from the silkie. one has a distinctly white chest and leg feathers, so i assume she's a hen. the other one i think is a roo, but where a faverolles roo would be clearly black is washed out.
i wish i understood anything about chicken genetics
anyway I'm a bit surprised this cross isn't more common. they are so sweet and cute. and they have good taste in tv.
