The American Paint Silkie

[jenniferlamar70]

PAINT: SPLASH: They are a pure white with black/blue speck on the body covering the whole or most of the feather. They can resemble a white splash polish chicken. The splash silkie is a blue color background. They are very different. If you breed paint to paint it will not breed true(not just paint in the offspring). A splash to a splash will breed true and you will get just splash.

So far mine looks more like the splash but instead of black on white she is a lighter buff color. Can splash have different base colors? Thanks I'm new to all this but I'm loving learning about it.

 

[AZbirddad]

Do anyone have silkies for sale

 

[Contrastphoto]

Morning! Paint silkies are my new obsession. I bought a few chicks from locals in my area but need more paint! Anyone that has hatching eggs for sale please message me.

Also is this just a partridge? It came from a Paint Rooster over several different colored hens. Thanks for your help.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Morning! Paint silkies are my new obsession. I bought a few chicks from locals in my area but need more paint! Anyone that has hatching eggs for sale please message me.

Also is this just a partridge? It came from a Paint Rooster over several different colored hens. Thanks for your help.

Did you ever find any eggs? I'm looking for some also..

 

[Kdunn222]

I have bantams male D'UCCLE, silkie,egger both females and have 7 new hatched about a week old. So purebred as bantams but not the same type. I want to sell. Or if I can sell the adults the babies are gorgeous. And personalities.the male has lived a hard year broke leg but is still mounting.. no idea how I got him bc in broiler pack at ts.live in MD would like to keep adults together.or 2 babies at a time.

 

[GitaBooks]

I had a question about paints. Sorry if it was asked before, but I've just been having so much trouble finding a specific answer:
I had a mix between a Red Pyle OEGB and Silver Sebright and these bred with a Showgirl Silkie rooster. There were four chicks hatched, all of which were spotted. The two males were white with red spots and the two females were white with black spots, just like paints. This makes me wonder, was it because the Naked Neck silkie had pink skin and may have been a cross-bred of some sort that dominant white would be found in this line?

Also, the original OEGB and Sebright cross produced hens that were creamy white with a few tiny black dots on them, but I thought that Red Pyle was caused by recessive white? Why would black leak through in this case?

This is one of the OEGB x Sebright mixes (I called them Banshees because of their nasty temperments). You can see a couple black spots near the back of her.


When the Banshee above and her sister were bred with the rooster below they produced spotted babies. The rooster below is from a local breeder and came with four other silkies, none of which were Showgirls but all were up to standard. His pink skin was the only thing that really made him different from the other silkies.


The chicks can easily be told apart, as the two females had grey skin and black spots and the two boys had pink skin and red spots. (the boys are the two on the left).


The boys grew up to look like this, with blue-red smudges in their feathers and some cream (perhaps from the pyle) showing through on their bodies). They had light skin but kept the walnut comb.
Could the color possibly be sex-linked? Could the light skin and red leakage only be found in roosters? They also had less spots then the hens. Could it just be coincidence because there were only four of them?


The hens turned out looking like this. This is Susie, whose spots did grow with age. One of her spots is a black feather on the wing covered by a white feather, which is why it is hard to see. She has dark eyes, which is how I tell her apart from her sister, who has golden ones.

This is Goldie, her sister. You can see the black band at the end of her hackles, something they said is quite common in paint birds.


In the next generation (father unknown) another Paint was created with a single comb but otherwise she looks just like her mother. Her name is Dodie. Her brother is white with pink skin but his legs have tiny black dots all over the skin. What causes this?


However, Dodie had a sister/half sister named Dove who didn't have a crest or any spots besides a lavender shading on one feather. She has dark skin and feathered legs, however. Because the parentage is unsure I can't say for a fact what would cause it, but why would some have crests and others not? And what causes the slight, diluted coloration on a feather or two on cross-breeds?


Another generation produced a single-comb bantam chick with pink skin but paint spots on his body. Why would he still have it even if he wasn't carrying any of the crest, feather-leg or dark-skin genes? I would think those would show through as well if the paint gene did if it was the silkie that added them to the line. Right?


Dodie and dove have two other sister/half-sisters. Both have dark skin and feathered legs but Ruby (left) has a comb and dark eyes while Tad has light eyes and no crest. Tad, however, has silkie feathers. Why would that show through and not the Naked-neck? I thought Naked-neck was dominant?
Ruby is pyle (she developed more red as she aged). This means she is recessive white, right?


When Ruby got older she had two chicks with a Blue Silkie rooster. One (Rain) was black with silkied feathers, though he didn't have five toes or feathered legs, he did have dark skin and a comb. However, his brother, Noel had blue feathers, a single comb, and lemon patterning on his back.


This is Noel when he was young, before the lemon began to show through.


Now he is around 6 months old and has developed light blue, dun/lemon on his back and wings, a dark (almost black) crest and a single comb that is purple. What would cause this pattern? Was it the Pyle?


Does he look like he has partial lacing? Why would that show up so late in the genetics, after so many generations? Is it because of the blue?


If he was crossed with the dalmatians (what I call the breed I am developing) could he produce any dalmatians himself?



Sorry for all the questions, but answers to at least some of the would be so helpful. I'm trying to create more "Dalmatian" bantams, but I'm not sure what breeds I should cross them back to. Should I try Sebright and Red Pyle again? Does Red Pyle cause nothing at all in the breed? Would Dominant White or Recessive White be better to add to the breed (Red Pyle is recessive, but does Sebright have something to do with Dominant White?). Was my silkie a dominant white? Are my Dalmatians even the same as Paint silkies?

And most important of all, if I got a Paint silkie rooster and crossed it with my Dalmatian hens, what do you think would happen?

 

[RubyNala97]

Did you ever find any eggs? I'm looking for some also..

Morning! Paint silkies are my new obsession. I bought a few chicks from locals in my area but need more paint! Anyone that has hatching eggs for sale please message me.

Also is this just a partridge? It came from a Paint Rooster over several different colored hens. Thanks for your help.

I have hatching eggs for sale that I can ship.

I came to this thread to post a pic of my favorite grow out. I loved this chick the second it hatched and I'm pretty sure it's a girl. Only about 3 & 1/2 months old but I'm loving her!

 

[GitaBooks]

I have hatching eggs for sale that I can ship.

I came to this thread to post a pic of my favorite grow out. I loved this chick the second it hatched and I'm pretty sure it's a girl. Only about 3 & 1/2 months old but I'm loving her!

Beautiful girl!

If I can't find any paint chicks in my area I would love to go with some Paint Silkie shipped eggs if they are available.

 

[RubyNala97]

Beautiful girl! 

If I can't find any paint chicks in my area I would love to go with some Paint Silkie shipped eggs if they are available.

Thanks!

Sure, let me know whenever. A couple members on BYC have had good hatch rates with my shipped eggs. You can pm anytime.

 

[Blooie]

Thanks!

Sure, let me know whenever. A couple members on BYC have had good hatch rates with my shipped eggs. You can pm anytime.

And I'm one of those members! Thrilled with the eggs I got, the quality of the air cells, and the paints I got!! Can't go wrong with eggs from @RubyNala97 If there was a fan club, I'd be a member of that, too!!