Black offspring from paint cross silkies

[WhisperingOaks]

I hatched eggs from my paint silkies and some are solid black. If paint is dominant white what is going on and how do I use these in my breeding program? If I breed a black to a black from paint parents will I get some paints? I am trying to understand these genetics- thanks for any light you can shed on this!

 

[Sneebsey]

Paint, as I understand it, is the result of a single copy of the Dominant White gene. From a pairing of paint to paint, you should get 50% paint offspring, 25% black, and 25% white.

To use the black birds in your breeding, you can breed to paint for 50% paint and 50% black. You can also breed to the white offspring for 100% paint chicks, although since the parents were not paint, the distribution of pigment holes in the white (the black patches you see on paint birds) will be unpredictable in the offspring.

If you breed black to black you will not produce any paint birds.

 

[WhisperingOaks]

Paint, as I understand it, is the result of a single copy of the Dominant White gene. From a pairing of paint to paint, you should get 50% paint offspring, 25% black, and 25% white.

To use the black birds in your breeding, you can breed to paint for 50% paint and 50% black. You can also breed to the white offspring for 100% paint chicks, although since the parents were not paint, the distribution of pigment holes in the white (the black patches you see on paint birds) will be unpredictable in the offspring.

If you breed black to black you will not produce any paint birds.

Thank you - that makes sense

 

[MokiYoki]

I advise you to breed your black chooks to your white paints. Then the offspring will be 50/50 black and white paints with nice great big spots.
A way to think about dominant white is that its a big white sheet over a black chicken that has some holes in it. When your chickens have two copies of dominant white then they have two layers of sheets with holes in them and you can't tell what the holes of the individual sheets looks like. but if your chickens only have one copy of dominant white then they have one white sheet rather than two and you can see exactly what the holes look like and so you can select for the ones with the best holes(black spots).
the draw back however is that you end up with 50% black chickens but they are still VERY useful. Its one of the few times you can see the quality of the melanisers in your flock and you can also better see if your chickens are based on silver or gold, silver being the superior choice for paints as it eliminates most red (which bleeds through the white) from your flock. If you keep roosters with SILVER and not lemon or gold leaking through and breed him to your hens you are guaranteed all silver daughters out of him and if you breed them back to him or another silver leaking black paint you wont have any more red leaking (from base colour at least).
I hope that made sense... I'm not good at putting my words into text. let me know if I confused you

 

[lalady59]

I advise you to breed your black chooks to your white paints. Then the offspring will be 50/50 black and white paints with nice great big spots.
A way to think about dominant white is that its a big white sheet over a black chicken that has some holes in it. When your chickens have two copies of dominant white then they have two layers of sheets with holes in them and you can't tell what the holes of the individual sheets looks like. but if your chickens only have one copy of dominant white then they have one white sheet rather than two and you can see exactly what the holes look like and so you can select for the ones with the best holes(black spots).
the draw back however is that you end up with 50% black chickens but they are still VERY useful. Its one of the few times you can see the quality of the melanisers in your flock and you can also better see if your chickens are based on silver or gold, silver being the superior choice for paints as it eliminates most red (which bleeds through the white) from your flock. If you keep roosters with SILVER and not lemon or gold leaking through and breed him to your hens you are guaranteed all silver daughters out of him and if you breed them back to him or another silver leaking black paint you wont have any more red leaking (from base colour at least).
I hope that made sense... I'm not good at putting my words into text. let me know if I confused you

Chooks=meaning chicks?

 

[Ravynscroft]

Chooks=meaning chicks?

Chooks is slang for chickens in Australia...