All Silkie breed chart

[Countrygirl92]

Hi I have a partridge roo and a blue hen silkie and currently just got more I was trying to find a good breeding chart that shows all colors of silkies like partridge and blues and buffs all I can find is partridge on partridge. Can anyone help me where to find a good breeding chart that has all colors thank you! Here is a pic of my babies

 

[Sara S]

AWW they’re so cute! Idk if it will help, but here’s my splash silkie roo, Little Man

 

[NatJ]

Hi I have a partridge roo and a blue hen silkie and currently just got more I was trying to find a good breeding chart that shows all colors of silkies like partridge and blues and buffs all I can find is partridge on partridge. Can anyone help me where to find a good breeding chart that has all colors thank you! Here is a pic of my babies

I don't know where to find a good chart, but I do know some of the color interactions.

As a basic starting point:
Breed a Silkie to another Silkie of the same color, and you are likely to get more of that color.

(Exception to the above: blues do not breed true. When you breed two blues, you generally get 25% black chicks, 50% blue chicks, 25% splash chicks.)

Black with cuckoo works fine (produces cuckoo chicks and sometimes black chicks, depending on which parent had the white barring.)

Black with blue/splash works fine (produces various numbers of black, blue, and splash, depending on which ones you are breeding together.)

Black with lavender can work (produces black chicks that carry the lavender gene, but breeding those chicks to lavenders can produce more lavenders.)

For most other colors, it is probably best to keep them pure (not mixed with any other colors.)

Crossing colors will typically produce cute, healthy chicks. But the chicks may be in colors that Silkies are not "supposed" to be, and some colors or combinations that don't really have names. Whether that is a problem depends on what you want to do with the chicks (keep them as pets, sell them, take them to shows, etc.)

 

[SilkieLover1403]

I don't know where to find a good chart, but I do know some of the color interactions.

As a basic starting point:
Breed a Silkie to another Silkie of the same color, and you are likely to get more of that color.

(Exception to the above: blues do not breed true. When you breed two blues, you generally get 25% black chicks, 50% blue chicks, 25% splash chicks.)

Black with cuckoo works fine (produces cuckoo chicks and sometimes black chicks, depending on which parent had the white barring.)

Black with blue/splash works fine (produces various numbers of black, blue, and splash, depending on which ones you are breeding together.)

Black with lavender can work (produces black chicks that carry the lavender gene, but breeding those chicks to lavenders can produce more lavenders.)

For most other colors, it is probably best to keep them pure (not mixed with any other colors.)

Crossing colors will typically produce cute, healthy chicks. But the chicks may be in colors that Silkies are not "supposed" to be, and some colors or combinations that don't really have names. Whether that is a problem depends on what you want to do with the chicks (keep them as pets, sell them, take them to shows, etc.)

What would a grey silkie hen and a black silkie rooster make??

 

[NatJ]

What would a grey silkie hen and a black silkie rooster make??

If each of those silkies comes from a line of purebreds, consistent for color, then all the chicks should be black.

If the hen and rooster come from mixing colors, then I would expect about half of chicks to be black, but the other half could be gray, or they could be just about any other possible chicken color, depending on which recessive color genes the parents are carrying.