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  1. chicksnthestiks

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Try a whitening shampoo for horses as their hair is coarse and those seem to work better. For around the eyes I wonder if the product for dogs tear staining remover would work. It is for around eyes.
  2. chicksnthestiks

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    I know the merle gene is a pattern and it occurs in any color. I am simply saying it dilutes. I just assumed there is some dilution in the chickens that makes the blue , splash. Since it makes an effect like the merle gene. And this is from an Australian Shephard site: All genes come in pairs...
  3. chicksnthestiks

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Yes there is, like the blue in say an American Staffordshire Terrier is different than the merle gene in Shelties. Sometimes I don't say everything I mean too! I did not want to say she was wrong, we are both right but I wanted to say the way the diluting works in the chickens (blue x...
  4. chicksnthestiks

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    I showed and bred Shetland Sheepdogs so when you say blue I of course thought blue merle. But I was taught it is dominant because one parent has to have it or you dont get it. It does not hide like a recessive gene. Also it is a dilution because it dilutes a black dog to silver/grey and if you...
  5. chicksnthestiks

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Thanks - I have a tendency to think of blue as in recessive blue in dogs... Blue in dogs is not recessive. It has to be there to get it. Comparing a blue merle dog to a blue chicken, when you double it you get a double merle in the dog (sometimes called a double dilute) in chickens its called a...
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