Do you have any black or blue regular feathered Ameraucanas?
Don't forget that you can out cross them both to regular feathered Ameraucanas and produce F1 chicks carrying a recessive silkie gene. Then crossing those F1 chicks back to the silkie parents would result in 50% silkie feathered. Or...
Typically solid black chicks will grow up to have red, gold or silver leakage in the saddle, hackle, etc feathers.
Solid black chickens typically hatch out black with white breasts, and splotchy white on the face, and even might have some white feathers in their wings initially.
Generally, you wouldn't be able to create splash using a white bird.
You can get splash from breeding a blue to a blue, a blue to a splash, or by breeding two splash together.
You could get lucky with some recessive genes, but it would be a long shot.
#1... Not sure. Buff Orp or white laced Cornish could be right though. What color are the wing feathers coming in? What type of comb?
#2 Red Silkies!
#3 Partridge Silkies
#4 No Idea - what type of comb? If single comb it could be OEG, Dutch, Japanese or white faced black Spanish, if pea...
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I'm assuming you want speckled chicks?
If so, NO, breeding the F1 back to the BO roo will not get you any speckled chicks... you would have to breed back to the SS for 50% speckled chicks or breed the F1 together with a 25% chance for speckled chicks.
Breeding back to the BO should...
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