Americana Hen

I bred her to the rooster standing out side the pen.Color of eggs does not bother me I want her egg laying ability, she lays better than all my chickens including my black stars. Her chicks seem to be her color by looking at wing feathers they haven't completely feathered out yet. So then I could call her a Silver Partridge? I have 2 chicks I like that have 5 toes each and appears they will be her color, Hoping for a rooster her color.
No, she's not Silver Partridge. She's wild-type partridge, which involves different patterning genes. She would produce sexlinks with the male in the first photo. Pullets will be gold/buff base color, like the rooster. Males will have the black and white (silver) color scheme of their mother and will develop red leakage.
 
Then it looks like I got 5 roosters 4 will be freezer bound. Got 8 more eggs in the incubator will see what they will be in about two weeks. I was hoping to get more hens her color.
You will not get any hens directly from her with her coloring. Sorry. She can only pass that silver base color to her male offspring.
 
Ok next year when one of this cocks grows up and mated to her will they be hens her color since both will be colored the same?
That will be your best bet, yes. A silver based rooster and this silver hen. Might not be exactly the same, but pretty close if you hatch enough
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