Breeding silkies color question

[FluffHoarder]

If I breed a white hen to a black rooster with some gold feathers and get chicks that are gold, black and grey, will their chicks get the gold and black coloring? Or will they be white if the white skips a generation? I’m not very good with genetics and traits. These two are the parents of the chicks in question. Though I’m confused, why is the rooster mostly gold? His dad was black with only a few gold hackle feathers.

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

Your pair there appear to be partridge, without knowing all of their parents l, grand parents, great grand etc it can be hard to say exactly what their genetics are. White is usually recessive, but to make it more confusing there's also a dominant white gene! Ahh!

But if you bred your Partridge Cock to a White Hen, and got no whites, sounds like she's a recessive white! Can you post pictures of the babies? How old are they?

If they're partridge (chipmunk colored chicks) they'll get their gold and patterning, if they're solid, chances are they won't unless they have "leakage".

If you bred Partridge Cock to a White Hen and got colored chicks (not white) then they're gonna carry white. If you take those babies that carry white and breed it back to a White bird, you'll get around 50% white chicks! And lastly your roosters color could be from his mom, his dad's color could be totally different than what he is

 

[FluffHoarder]

These are the chicks that hatched, sorry for the not very good lighting, they are staying in the garage. Their parents are the two above

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

If the two partridges are your parents then that makes this most likely a little easier! Looks like probably partridges and a white, meaning both parents carry a gene of recessive white! The not white chicks in some white light would be helpful but also once they're adults/older and feathered in, identifying the colors would be much easier

 

[FluffHoarder]

Here is Charleston in better lighting

 

[The Moonshiner]

Your white hen was either partridge underneath or carried partridge. Your rooster was probably extended black/partridge. His black was dominate but some of the partridge leaked through.
All their offspring carry recessive white from the mother so breeding them together can produce whites or more that carry white sight unseen.
The hen above looks partridge so she got a partridge gene from both parents and will pass on to all offspring. The rooster could be the same and also pass partridge to his offspring. If thats the case you will produce about 75% partridge chicks and 25% white chicks.
I can't say for sure your rooster isn't extended black/partridge like his father but showing more leakage. If thats the case you could also get offspring with more black showing then what a partridge pattern would have.

 

[FluffHoarder]

Someone asked for pics with better lighting so here, I may have repeated a photo, there’s only four chicks including the white one up above

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

Yep I think what you have is two partridge parents who both carry recessive white. Your chicks at this moment to me seem to all be partridge besides the one, who is of course white