Cuckoo Silkie
A variety of the Silkie
Chicken · Cream eggs · Ornamental
No clutches listed yet
No breeders are listing Cuckoo Silkie eggs right now.
About the Cuckoo Silkie
Cuckoo Silkies are barred birds: the sex-linked barring gene lays alternating dark and pale bands across each feather, which the breed's soft, fur-like plumage softens into a smoky, mottled, zig-zag effect rather than crisp stripes. It is a non-standard colour still gaining recognition, but is increasingly bred; being sex-linked, barring can aid chick sexing.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Cream
- Eggs per year
- About 120
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- China
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus