BlueSplash Silkie ?

[jay1995]

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It is not the presence or absence of silver/gold that causes off-colour in the hackles. These genes are ALWAYS present in every bird. Every female is either S/- or s+/-; every male is either S/S, S/s+ or s+/s+. You can have a perfectly coloured blue or black bird that is either silver or gold based, and shows no off colours in any portion of the plumage.

Off coloured hackles are caused by the presence of not-melanizer genes. Their alternate alleles (melanizers) extend the eumelanin (black pigment) into the hackle area. Additionally, autosomal red can and does add red pigment, especially on male shoulders and wings.

Completly lost. I need to do more research!!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Where did I lose you? I'll be happy to try to explain or fill in whatever information you're missing, or to point you in the right direction to finding it.

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

When you go black to blue does it make a difference on roo/hen color?
Hen black / Roo blue
Hen blue / Roo black
Just curious!! I have 2 blue and 1 black have no idea yet what sex they are..
Thanks so much loving this thread..

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

No, with a black & blue pairing which bird is male and which is female makes no difference.

 

[jay1995]

Im notsure about the whole S/S S/s+ What does that mean? And if you breed a white with a white you sometimes get off white colors? How do you get pure whites?

 

[jay1995]

And if you breed a splash to many times they will lose the splash? Or am I misunderstanding it?

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

This is like silkie school 101

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

S refers to the silver/gold gene. Capital letters indicate a dominant allele for a gene; conversely, lower-case letters indicate a recessive allele. A + indicates the wild-type allele. When there are more than 2 alleles, superscripted letters indicate some of those alleles. When a superscript is unavaiable, a ^ is used to indicate that the following letter(s) should be considered superscripted.

S stands for silver, the dominant allele of the silver gene
s+ stands for gold, the recessive, wildtype allele

For males, S/S would indicate that the bird carries two copies of silver. Since this is a sex-linked gene, hens only have one copy, which would be indicated S/- Sometimes // is used, and sometimes no slashes are used: S/S S//S SS and S/- S//- S- all mean the same thing: a silver bird.

 

[briarpatchfarms]

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you have watch your white chicks the pure white will be more silver looking and the brassy whites will have a yellow tint to them when they are born so you want to breed the silver chicks not the yellow chicks they would be culled! The only difference between them is the silver is a pure white and the brassy or gold has a somewhat yellow tint to the feathers which can nock you out of placings at shows!

 

[briarpatchfarms]

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if you breed splash and splash together then take there chicks and breed them to splashed and so on and so on! You will breed the blue out and so what I'm trying to say is if you do this it will cause them to loose the good splash pattern but two or three generations of splash and splash is just fine it doesn't happen in a few generations