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  1. Wappoke

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    if you cross the porcelain roo with the blacks you will get black F1 offspring Then back cross the porcelain roo with some of the F1 females- this cross will produce BC1 black, BC1 black mottled, BC1 porcelain and BC1 lavender offspring , The non-mottled offspring will carry one gene for...
  2. Wappoke

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    My question is what variety are you wanting to produce at the end of a breeding regimen? secondly, genetics is not a crapshoot because it is based on the laws of probabilities and laws governing the inheritance of genes, etc. It may seem that way at times because chicken genetics is complicated.
  3. Wappoke

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Yes he is columbian- you would have to cross him with a paint to get some paints in the offspring. Not all the offspring will be paints.
  4. Wappoke

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Hey! My rooster is not buff but a very light beige! Is it possible that not all the babies will have red leakage? Not possible to get a clean paint? Thanks! The reason your rooster is beige is because he does not have the genes to make a dominant white color. Birds that are genetically black...
  5. Wappoke

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Some dominant white birds will leak red pigments ranging from bright red to buff. A chicken must have the correct genetics for this leakage to occur. Where ever the bird should be red the bird will show red and where ever the bird should be black the bird will be white. if dominant white were...
  6. Wappoke

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Recessive white does not act like dominant white. The hen carries two recessive genes for recessive white. Both parents were carriers of one recessive white gene. The probabilities that the parents would produce white offspring is 1 in 4. Recessive white is caused by the inability of the...
  7. Wappoke

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    I would like to add some additional information to what others have posted. Porcelain are mille fleur and also carry lavender. And as others have stated, paints are a genetically black chicken that carries a single copy of the dominant white gene. Dominant white is a leaky gene and a single...
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