Silkie color genetics chart?

[Coops4me]

I have a question. I raise lavender silkies, but the breeder I bought my first lav from mixed whites to add type. As that was what he raised. After I doubled back on the line I started getting White along with my lavender chicks. My question is ( If I breed these white together will I get lavender.) Both parents are lavender! I assume they have to be lavender genetically since both parents are lavender. Here is a picture of one. Also they look normal lav at birth. That changes quickly into sbw. this is the same bird in sunlight and in shade.

So what do you think?

 

[The Moonshiner]

No.
If you breed those whites together all you will get is more whites that carry the lavender hidden underneath just as they do.
Silkie white is recessive white so it acts just like lavender. Takes copy of white from each parent to show. One copy is carried sight unseen like black split to lavender do.
If yo breed those whites to the lavenders you will get some lavenders from the lavenders that are carrying a white gene. You will get all lavenders from the lavenders that don't carry white.
All chicks produced from the whites will carry at least one copy of white. You will never get rid of the white popping up if you keep breeding whites.
It will also be very difficult to get white out of your future chicks when breeding any of these birds since it can go from generation to generation sight unseen.
It will take test breeding to get it cleaned from the line now.

 

[SilkieFarmer2018]

So question I have a Partridge Rooster and white hens...so far ive only had 1 hen lay and she has produced nothing but partridge chicks...will I get partridge chicks every time?

 

[Dixie2766]

What do you get when you breed a buff to a blue splash?

 

[Hawaii Chicks]

I have a question. I raise lavender silkies, but the breeder I bought my first lav from mixed whites to add type. As that was what he raised. After I doubled back on the line I started getting White along with my lavender chicks. My question is ( If I breed these white together will I get lavender.) Both parents are lavender! I assume they have to be lavender genetically since both parents are lavender. Here is a picture of one. Also they look normal lav at birth. That changes quickly into sbw. this is the same bird in sunlight and in shade.View attachment 1261818 So what do you think?
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That looks like a very diluted lavender. Use black and then the offspring back to lavender

 

[kellyloveschad]

I have one white rooster, a lavender splash, a blue splash.. this baby has to be from my porcelain hen because I don't have a buff. I wonder what color will be??

 

[FlyingGarlic]

Hi there, I know that this is an old thread but, just wondering what color this baby turned out to be! LOL my little one looks just like this!