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You are right of course, sorry about getting my numbers wrong.

If you mate an Australorp male over a silkie female, you will get offspring that are all split to silkie feathering (in other words, they will each carry one copy of the gene but they will not show any evidence). If you choose a pullet from this cross and mate her to a non-silkie feathered...

I agree that many people want pure bred. In addition, you will not get silkie feathered chicks in the first generation since silkie is a recessive gene. So it will take time to breed and there won't be anything particularly appealing about F1 crosses except for the possibility of crests or...