The American Paint Silkie

[hoppy]

I was told you should always consider then possible paint carriers and not mix them with other non paints thinking you will get only solids. this is what I am doing. and when you sell them, those people should know they might carry paint as well.

Ok, I know this question has been asked before but here we go again.

I hatched out some chicks from two black hens and a paint roo. I hatched out paints, black and white chicks.


My question is, well there are several.

Are the blacks considered pure blacks? Meaning will I get 100 % blacks if I breed them together ? Or will I get mixed colors or paints if I breed them to each other? Same question about the whites?
Bred together white x white, will I get all whites?

So basically the question would be are they considered split to paint (I know they don't know enough know enough about the paints yet )

And then what about breeding a white offspring to a black offspring from the above chicks? Could you get paints with them ? White back to paint or black back to the paint parent?


So as you can see I'm a bit confused. I don't really have the room to experiment with this since I have only so many cages !! I hatched some very nice blacks and whites out of these pairs and wonder if I could or should ad them to my pure black and white breeding pairs ???? Don't want to do that if I won't get pure black and whites out of them.

Thanks for your input

 

[FrenchToast]

Thanks,
That's what I tought. Wish they knew more about the paint gene.

I was told you should always consider then possible paint carriers and not mix them with other non paints thinking you will get only solids. this is what I am doing. and when you sell them, those people should know they might carry paint as well.

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[sager:)silkies]

i was wondering the same if u breed paint to black wouldnt the offspring black silkies carry the paint gene and could u not rebreed them to a white or black and get some paint offspring?

 

[hoppy]

that is the thought that they could produce paint even in solid to solid breeding.

i was wondering the same if u breed paint to black wouldnt the offspring black silkies carry the paint gene and could u not rebreed them to a white or black and get some paint offspring?

 

[hoppy]

I have some solids that are from paint to splash. the splash is a very light colored bird. on these chicks, they are blueish and developing darker areas, if I didn't know they carried paint, I'd say they were very dark splash. I wonder if this isn't the paint showing up as spots on the blue?

 

[peepblessed]

that is the thought that they could produce paint even in solid to solid breeding.

I just hatched out 3 solid paints. I'm surprised this hasn't been tried dozens of times by now. Guess I'll try it when the time comes unless someone says I'm wasting my time.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Whether paint can hide or not is not unknown, although there are some who believe it can. Personally I am very skeptical of it hiding in a black bird; slightly less so of it hiding in a white bird. Is paint a separate, new gene? Or is it the same gene that produces exchequers? Is it produced by a single gene, or is it like lacing and needs multiple genes? We do too much "hatch everything in sight" and too little planned, experimental breeding and documentation. I am guilty of this, too.

 

[peepblessed]

Whether paint can hide or not is not unknown, although there are some who believe it can. Personally I am very skeptical of it hiding in a black bird; slightly less so of it hiding in a white bird. Is paint a separate, new gene? Or is it the same gene that produces exchequers? Is it produced by a single gene, or is it like lacing and needs multiple genes? We do too much "hatch everything in sight" and too little planned, experimental breeding and documentation. I am guilty of this, too.

Of course it will be months before I can experiment and in the mean time I'll keep following this thread and see what others are doing.

 

[psycoforsilkies]

one of my new paint babies I hatched 3 days old

Almost did not post just because last time i did not many people had anything nice to say but these are for those who just love cute chicks

 

[peepblessed]

one of my new paint babies I hatched 3 days old

Almost did not post just because last time i did not many people had anything nice to say but these are for those who just love cute chicks

OMG! I'm in love!!!