Paint Silkie
A variety of the Silkie
Chicken · Cream eggs · Ornamental
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About the Paint Silkie
Paint Silkies are a white-ground bird scattered with random, irregular jet-black patches — a Dalmatian-like look produced by a single dominant white gene over a black base. They do not breed true: paint to paint can give paint, pure white or black chicks. APA-recognised in the US, it is distinct from splash, which has a blue ground with blue splashes rather than white with black.
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