Mottled splits?

[Diana777]

My silkie and cochin project eggs are starting to hatch today and so far 2 of them are black with some yellow on their chest and belly. The breeder told me she was giving me blacks, lavender, cochin millie project and black split to mottled. All black silkies normally don’t have any yellow that I’ve seen so I’m wondering if these that hatched are the black split to mottled. They look a little like mottles but not as much as ones I have hatched previously. I wonder if when they’re split to mottled they have yellow on them. I want to make sure to know how to band and in what pens to put.

 

[Debbie292d]

I had bought eggs and hatched a couple mottleds somewhat similar to yours.

 

[Diana777]

I had bought eggs and hatched a couple mottleds somewhat similar to yours.


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This one looks more like mottled. I looked it up and mine look like black cochins so it may the black split to mottled the breeder said she gave me.

 

[Debbie292d]

This one looks more like mottled. I looked it up and mine look like black cochins so it may the black split to mottled the breeder said she gave me.

Mine's pure silkie but I don't do well with cross-bred ones at all so was only thinking perhaps it could be.

 

[Diana777]

Mine's pure silkie but I don't do well with cross-bred ones at all so was only thinking perhaps it could be.

Yours is most definitely not pure silkie. Silkies have black skin and also don’t come in mottled.

 

[Debbie292d]

Yours is most definitely not pure silkie. Silkies have black skin and also don’t come in mottled.

They are pure silkie from an exhibition breeder. Their skin is mottled which is proper. The other silkie variation that has white feet and beak at least for a couple of months is a paint.
This is how a different one turned out. A mottled satin silkie. I don't want satins here and had no males to breed her with so sold her.

 

[Diana777]

I have 2 mottled girls that look like yours, one has more white, it’s prettier. They are satin like yours, not silkie feathers. Again, not 100% silkie. The mottled is bred from cochins, you have to keep breeding back to silkies to get the silkie feathers.