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Silkie chickens come in solid colors such as White, Buff, Black, Blue and Self-Blue. The patterned varieties include Paint, Splash, Partridge and Gray. I have recently come to love the Naked Neck Silkie. This Silkie is a cross between a Silkie Bantam and a Turken (commonly known as a “naked neck” chicken).
What colour Silkies can you get?
Breed Standard. According to the American Poultry Association (APA), Silkies are only accepted in six colors: white, black, blue, buff, partridge, and splash.
What is the most popular Silkie color?
Silkies are most commonly found in a crisp white tone, but for those of us that like our backyard to be dotted with colorful little cotton balls, the possibilities are near endless.
What color Silkies make splash?
What is a splash Silkie? Splash Silkie chickens have pale blue plumage with irregular patches of black or dark blue colour. Splash is the most recent addition to the APA Standard, added in 2000.
What does a blue Silkie look like?
Blue Silkie Bantam chicks are blue with white wing tips and some white on the neck. Their bones, skin, beak, legs and toes are black. They have beards, muffs and a crest of fluff on top of their head. They have walnut combs, five toes on each foot and feathers on their legs and feet.
How do you get a blue Silkie?
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 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.
What is a blue cream Silkie?
Porcelain Silkies are essentially a mix of the lavender and buff colors. They have a lavender base with buff color across the wings and back. They are also called blue cream silkies.
What color eggs do Silkies lay?
Silkies lay a fair number of eggs, of a cream color, but production is often interrupted due to their extreme tendency to go broody; a hen will produce 100 eggs in an ideal year.
Are all Silkies bantams?
Silkies are considered a bantam breed in some countries, but this varies according to region and many breed standards class them officially as large fowl. ALL Silkies began as bantams. Large fowl were bred up from the bantam.
Do all Silkie chickens have blue ears?
Pale blue earlobes are not uncommon in chicken breeds, but the Silkies’ turquoise earlobes are unique. Not known is whether this color results from an interaction of earlobe pigmentation with the Silkie’s black skin and, if so, what the earlobes’ base color actually is.
How long do Silkie chickens live?
Silkies are hardy and resilient, and they are able to thrive in both cold and warm climates. These chickens are long-lived, often having life spans up to around nine years old, and continue to stay beautiful even when older.
What is a lavender Silkie?
Lavender or self blue chicken feathers are a uniform light grey across all of the birds plumage. The lavender itself is actually black but with a reduced amount of pigment showing it looks a soft and even shade of blue.
Do silkie chickens come in different colors?
Silkie chickens come in solid colors such as White, Buff, Black, Blue and Self-Blue. The patterned varieties include Paint, Splash, Partridge and Gray.
How much do blue Silkies cost?
How Much Do Silkie Chickens Cost? Silkie chicks can be purchased for anywhere from $3 to $10 each, while adult hens or roosters can be bought for between $15 and $50 each.
What is a mottled Silkie?
Mottled silkies are a really neat color. They are black with blocks of white. Mottled silkies are very much still a project color. All of the chicks that we hatch are silkie feathered, but we are still working on weeding out flaws so that all chicks will meet silkie breed standards.
What colour will my Silkie chick be?
There are eight recognized colors: black, blue, buff, gray, partridge, self-blue, splash and white. Are they related to Showgirl chickens?Apr 18, 2020.
Are pink chickens real?
Theoretically, one gene-drive chicken is enough to change the color of the entire species. The gene for the pink colour is extracted from the insect cochineal, that produces a chemical called carminic acid.
What is a sizzle Silkie?
A Sizzle is a cross between a frizzled rooster and a Silkie hen. Unlike the smooth feathers of most chickens, Silkie feathers lack the tiny hooks, or barbicels, that hold a feather’s webbing together. Silkies therefore look like they’re covered with fur.
What is a paint Silkie?
“Paints” are silkies that are mostly white with the black spots. “My birds never had anything mixed in,” said Lee, noting that in Europe other chicken breeds were used to create the paint silkies. “It was just a genetic mutation that allowed these polka dots,” she said about her ground-breaking chicken.
Are Frizzles and Silkies the same?
Even though they’re all different breeds, they can collectively be called frizzles. Silkie feather genes are not problematic, it doesn’t matter if you have one or two as either or both are express as silkied feathers so Silkies can breed true. Below: A frizzle feathered Silkie.
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.
