Silkies and recessive white

[Smileybans]

I have a mixed silkie pen consisting of two roosters, one buff and one black with silver leakage, the hens are buff, blue partridge and black. I keep getting white chicks from my buff rooster. No matter whose eggs I hatch out. I was told on FB that he would carry the recessive white gene and so would my hens. Which would make my chicks white. Making them carriers or the dominant white gene. My question is, how can all of my hens of different colors who aren’t related carry the recessive white gene? What’s the best way to figure out who is the carrier? And can it be just my rooster? Or does it have to be my hens as well? I just want different colored chicks. Not all white all the time from everyone.

 

[Amer]

If it is true that you are hatching whites from every hen then they all carry recessive white despite being unrelated. Idk why but if that’s true, it’s the only possibility.

 

[Amer]

But it should only be a 25 percent chance so it looks like you are just getting unlucky. Keep trying, you will get other colors.