Blue silkie mum with a blue silkie dad = ......

[Fingers crossed]

If the "parents" of silkie eggs are both blue would the hatch be all blue or would you get other colours as a possibility?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

25% chance of black, 50% chance of blue & 25% chance of splash

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Blue to blue produces black, blue splash and blue. Can't remember the percentages of each, but maybe somebody does.

 

[Fingers crossed]

OOh, would love for a splash to hatch! Thank you

 

[The Chicken Lady]

Splash silkies are beautiful. I'm sending good hatching vibes your way!

 

[Fingers crossed]

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Thank you so much. Theyre due on the 10th, 5 out of 6 eggs have movement

 

[Smokin Silkies]

Hmmmm. I didn't know that. I would figure if 2 Blue hatched eggs, they would be blue. I wonder why some breeders say that they keep colors seperated. What does it matter if you can get a black or splash out of a blue? Doesn't make sense to me

 

[Huny]

Lavender is the only self-blue and it is recessive. The Blue has black sometimes hiding in the gene pool, and sometimes the splash. Someone with more genetic know how can explain it better.

 

[spydertoys]

I have blues, blue splash, blacks and whites..all together.
I am just about over run with eggs and babies..but they are the cutest chicks in the world..hard to let them go..lol.
One of my cochin mamas decided she wanted to go broody on one egg..so I gave her 18 silkie eggs..lol.!! MORE BABIES on the way!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

All chickens have all chicken genes

What determines the colouring is the combination of the particular versions, or alleles they have for each gene.

Rather than saying black, how about if we say "not-blue."

The blue gene is incompletely dominant. That means that having one copy of the allele versus two copies give an intermediate result.

Bl is the allele referred to as the blue gene." It acts by diluting black pigment. Once cop of the gene dilutes black pigment to the colour we call blue. A 2nd copy further dilutes the blue bird to one with a lighter background colour with irregular, random dark blue splashes: the colour we call splash.

So, zero copies of Bl (blbl) and the bird is "not blue." One copy of Bl (Blbl) and the bird is blue; two copies of Bl (BlBl) and the bird is splash.