BBS Confusion (new to breeding)

[intownlimits]

Ok, I know what BBS IS.. and see the Silkie color charts EVERYWHERE.... IS that correct for all breeds as well? Also i found no chart with white included. I have a beautiful white NN cockerel id love to breed to my Black, White Cochin girls and a few other BBS colored hens. Any and all help is appreciated.

Also, Whats the difference in lavender and silver? I read the through the posts and it all looks the same to me.

 

[Bo Garrett]

With my limited knowledge I'll try to explain:
1. Andalusian blue which is the most common type of blue is a co-dominant dilution factor. When a black bird possess one copy of the black allele and one copy of the blue dilution allele a blue colored bird is the result. Genotype Bb (B=black, b=blue). If a bird is BB it is black, Bb= blue and bb=splash. This dilution factor exists in white birds but is not expressed due to the dominant nature of white but can be passed on to black off-spring when cross mated. Blue birds of the Bb Andalusian type will have darker heads, hackles and saddles with dark lacing around each feather to varying degrees.
2. Self Blue (aka Lavender) is a completely recessive dilution gene. This means if you cross a black bird with a self blue bird the resulting off-spring will all be black, when the F1 generation is mated together you'll get about 25% self blue off-spring possessing two copies of the recessive lavender gene. These birds are a pale bluish-gray all over with no splashing or lacing.
3. Silver is completely different and results in silvery white in the hackle, wing bow, wing bay and saddle as in silver duckwing old english game or silver phoenix.

Hope this helps.

Blessings,

Bo

 

[Amer]

Okay...
BBS is across the board for all breeds.
White was never included because white is complicated. It can be dominant or recessive white. Dominant white covers black and hides dilutions as well like barring and blue.
Recessive white can hide any color.
I think your NN cockerel is probably recessive white, which is far more common, but what it is hiding... you won’t know until you breed him.
Lavender and silver are nothing alike.
Lavender is a recessive gene that turns black to an even grey color and gold to a peachy color.
Silver is an incomplete dominant sex-linked gene. It leaves black alone and turns gold to white. A silver cock over a gold hen produces golden (which looks close to silver but with some yellow in the hackles, saddle, and shoulder) cockerels and silver pullets.
A gold cock over silver hens produces golden cockerels and gold pullets, which can be sexed at hatch.