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Quote: I can see what you're saying. What I know about silkies could be written on the back of a postage stamp. Unless I'm completely wrong about the genes in red & cuckoo silkies. The restricting genes from the red would push the black towards the back of the bird & the reds other than sex...

I apoligize but if you bred the other way around useing a barred roo, I think you would get crele. If I'm not mistaken in most barred breeds the male has a double gene. This might be why you get sex links the other way round. Again I dont claim to be a silkie expert and I will not argue that...

Quote: Not a sex link. I think you would just get crele in color

Lets keep it dumbed down as I feel if you get to technical it deters people from attempting projects and I am no geneticist. True black would mean black with no underlying color except maybe blue. For example if I have a Black silkie and its parentage included 1 buff sillkie crossed to a black...

This color is called erminette. To create this color you cross a true white silkie with a true black silkie. True means no other color in the background. At least 5 generation of solid white or black. Black is dominent so most chicks will come out solid black but a few should be Erminette AKA...