How do you tell what color a Silkie will be?
White Silkies are white all over and should have brilliantly turquoise earlobes. Black Silkies have black feathers with a green sheen in the light and their faces, combs and wattles should be dark mulberry approaching black.
How do you breed paint Silkies?
How to breed paint Silkies: Paint Silkies are produced by breeding a dominant white Silkie to a black Silkie. After that the genetics get complicated as they do not breed 100% true in future matings. Paint Silkies can produce chicks that are paint, white or black.
Can you cross breed Silkies?
Breeding Tips: Silkie Chickens. Cross a silkie with any hard feathered bird, and the offspring will be hard feathered. Cross these offspring together, and you will get some silkie feathered birds.
How do you breed blue Silkies?
To breed for blue Silkies you need to breed a black or a splash to a blue or a blue to a blue. Black x black = 100% black. Black x blue = 50% blue 50% black. Black x splash = 100% blue.
What colour eggs do Silkies lay?
Their eggs are a white/cream color with occasional tinting. How many eggs do they lay? They are considered poor layers, giving only 2-3 eggs per week.
What is the difference between Splash and paint Silkie?
What is the difference between splash and paint? A splash Silkie has a blue base, which is a corrupt black gene whereas paint Silkies are half black over dominant white genes.
How do you breed a Red Pyle Silkie?
Red Pyle silkies can be bred red pyle rooster over red pyle hens. Or, they can be bred red pyle rooster over partridge hens. Currently, we have two, beautiful red pyle roosters over four partridge hens and two red pyle hens. This will produce both red pyle and partridge chicks.
What is a blue silkie?
The Blue Silkie Bantam is a gorgeous variety of the Silkie Bantam breed, miniature chickens that originated in China and Japan. Silkie Bantam chickens are an Asiatic, feather-footed breed covered with an extraordinary abundance of soft, fluffy, hair-like feathers.
Can you breed a silkie with a Rhode Island Red?
The F1 Cross The rooster (White Silkie) and hen (Rhode Island Red). 3 F1 offspring hatched. One a cockerel, with typical RIR (Rhode Island Red) plumage, skin, and size and silkie temperament, slight crest, and comb.
What is a mauve Silkie?
Lavender silkies have been shown since the early the 2000’s. Lavender is a recessive color and requires two copies of the lavender gene to express itself. However it breeds true, so 2 lavender birds will produce lavender chicks. The thing with lavender is that they are weak genetically.
What is a satin Silkie?
Satins are bred to be identical to silkies in every way but feather type. This boils down to the genetic difference of Silkies that have two recessive gene for the silkie feathering trait and Satins that have either one or no genes for the silkie feathering trait.