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Yes, any birds from the Mottled hen should be split for mottling, so breeding two of those together should get you approximately 1 in 4 chicks that are mottled and and another 2 in 4 that also carry the gene. If your pullet has some of that white speckling in her feathers, it's possible she...

All of them out of the Mottled hen carry the gene, so breeding them together should bring mottling back out, if you know which are from which hen. Yup, silkied feathering is recessive! First generation cross of silkied to smooth like your birds will all carry the gene, so breeding them...

I did not receive your tag, but fortunately I try to read all the new threads that pop up in this section just in case I can help. :D Take this all with a grain of salt, I'm fairly new to this whole selecting toward the SOP thing as well. I only really started selecting toward the standard with...