Blue silkie gene?

[Emmey]

Hello we just ordered some chicks from ideal ( they're coming in August). Some of those chicks are 4 st.run blue silkies. Can someone explain how the blue gene works and what is a splash silkie?

 

[FuzzyCritters]

The blue color of chickens is caused by one copy of the splash gene and one copy of the black gene. A splash chicken is a chicken with two copies of the splash gene. The splash color is light gray with flecks of blue.

Here are the crosses that can make blue chickens:
Black x splash: 100% percent of chicks from that cross will be blue.
Blue x blue: 50% blue, 25% splash, 25% black
Blue x splash: 50% will be blue and 50% will be splash
Blue x black: 50% will be blue and 50% will be black
Splash x splash: 100% splash

When ordering blue chicks from a hatchery, you could get blue, black, or splash chicks because their breeding stock could be a mix of blue, black, and splash chickens.

 

[Emmey]

The blue color of chickens is caused by one copy of the splash gene and one copy of the black gene. A splash chicken is a chicken with two copies of the splash gene. The splash color is light gray with flecks of blue.

Here are the crosses that can make blue chickens:
Black x splash: 100% percent of chicks from that cross will be blue.
Blue x blue: 50% blue, 25% splash, 25% black
Blue x splash: 50% will be blue and 50% will be splash
Blue x black: 50% will be blue and 50% will be black
Splash x splash: 100% splash

When ordering blue chicks from a hatchery, you could get blue, black, or splash chicks because their breeding stock could be a mix of blue, black, and splash chickens.

So if we get splash silkie it will still be a blue silkie just with a different pattern and just classified as a splash silkie?

 

[FuzzyCritters]

So if we get splash silkie it will still be a blue silkie just with a different pattern and just classified as a splash silkie?

If you get a splash silkie, it will be classified a splash silkie, not a blue silkie.

 

[Emmey]

If you get a splash silkie, it will be classified a splash silkie, not a blue silkie.

Okay, thank you .

 

[janiedoe]

Okay, thank you .

I know this post is a few months old..wondering how your silkies turned out? I'm considering getting some from ideal in s few weeks.

 

[Emmey]

I know this post is a few months old..wondering how your silkies turned out? I'm considering getting some from ideal in s few weeks.

They're only a month old, but so far healthy.

 

[janiedoe]

They're only a month old, but so far healthy.
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Ok. I'm convinced! Adding 4 to 6 silkies to my order. Lol

 

[Emmey]

Ok. I'm convinced! Adding 4 to 6 silkies to my order. Lol

That's great . Hope you have fun with them.