Bearded x Non-Bearded Silkies = ?

[countyroad1330]

What do you get when you breed bearded and non-bearded silkies? Are they partially bearded? Or are a percentage bearded and the others not?

Oh, and what colors can be shown? I didn't know until this weekend that Splash could be shown.

 

[SloCrevs]

You get a silkie with a tiny beard. The beard is the dominant trait, from what I've seen with a friend's breeding stock. But it isn't just dominant-recessive, the beard is more of an incomplete dominance, so the beard will be there, but you won't have much of it.

Edit to add: Any variety can be shown as long as it's been accepted into the american standard of perfection. And Splash, as you stated.

 

[wclawrence]

If that is the case, the name for it is actually Co-dominant. Where one copy of the gene makes a tiny beard and two copies makes a normal beard.
I know topknots are kinda like that, but there are more than one gene at work on topknots.
I dont know alot about beard/muff genetics.