19/10/2026
Note on our Chocolate and Mauve Silkie breeding group.
Our current breeding group has two males, one visual chocolate boy and one black boy carrying the chocolate gene. Because of this pairing expected offspring colours including chocolate, mauve, black and blue.
As seasoned breeders will know, blue can hatch in so many different shades. You might see everything from a faint silvery blue all the way to a very dark colour that is almost black. The exact same thing applies to mauve.
Mauve is the middle colour in chocolate breeding between chocolate and chocolate splash, so mauve chicks can also hatch in quite a few beautiful shades.
You will notice in the photos that blue based splash or white recessive chicks usually hatch in a pure yellow colour, but the little ones pictured here have lovely milky creamy brown tones.
One of our customers Barbara hatched (4/6 posted to QLD) and sent these beautiful images that show the stunning variations. A blue chick can possibly be a split chocolate carrier depending on s*x.
"Why don't you just use a chocolate male so the offspring only hatch as chocolate and mauve since those are the most popular colours?"
Because we want to breed better bird next season, not stuck at where we are.
The main reason we keep our black split boy in the breeding pen is because he carries some physical traits that we really want to lock into our line, which you can see in the impressive size and feathering of our adult birds. We are already seeing some improvements in the offspring this season.
While we are a business and definitely want to provide the colours people love, our heart is also in the breeding process. Chicken breeding is rarely just about what you get in the very next generation. Sometimes we need to take a small step back in colour to take a massive leap forward in overall bird quality. It may work as we hoped or not, but we never know until we try.
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