Can a regular silkie feather chickens produce a satin silkie?

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I couldn’t find any information about this online so I was wondering if you bred a regular show silkie to a satin silkie and kept a regular silkie feathered chick from the pair, wound that chick produce satins in his/her offspring making the silkie you held back “het satin” or will it just produce regular barbless silkies?

Another question if you bred a black silkie to a blue black splash silkie and kept one of the black silkie chicks would that one be able to produce blue black splash?

Thank you for any and all the help!!!
 
To be silkie feathered a bird must get the silkie gene from each parent. A silkied bird can not carry the non silkie feathered gene but a non silkied bird can carry a silkie feathered gene hidden.
If you produced a silkie from a silkie crossed to non silkie the non silkie carried the silkie gene.
For that silkied offspring to produce any non silkied offspring it would have to be bred to a non silkied bird. Silkie Xs silkie produce all silkies.
To your second question there's no blue black splash color. They're all different varieties. What your black chicken can produce depends on which color its bred to. A black chicken won't produce a splash no matter which it's bred to though.
 
To be silkie feathered a bird must get the silkie gene from each parent. A silkied bird can not carry the non silkie feathered gene but a non silkied bird can carry a silkie feathered gene hidden.
If you produced a silkie from a silkie crossed to non silkie the non silkie carried the silkie gene.
For that silkied offspring to produce any non silkied offspring it would have to be bred to a non silkied bird. Silkie Xs silkie produce all silkies.
Thank you so much that is helpful!
To your second question there's no blue black splash color. They're all different varieties. What your black chicken can produce depends on which color its bred to. A black chicken won't produce a splash no matter which it's bred to though.
What colors could these pairs make?
Black X paint
Black X buff
Black X chocolate
Black X partridge
 
Black Xs paint... 50% blacks, 50% paints
Black Xs chocolate... 100% blacks but the cockerels will carry a chocolate gene sight unseen
The other two will just make a mess.
Black Xs buff or partridge will produce Black with various amounts of color leakage. Boys will have more then girls and the leakage color will depend on if the male is silver or gold based.
 
Black rooster i just bought, and different color hens im purchasing from a awesome breeder!

Black Xs paint... 50% blacks, 50% paints
Black Xs chocolate... 100% blacks but the cockerels will carry a chocolate gene sight unseen
The other two will just make a mess.
Black Xs buff or partridge will produce Black with various amounts of color leakage. Boys will have more then girls and the leakage color will depend on if the male is silver or gold based.
If I remember correctly leakage isnt what people want in shows or for breeding?
What would black X white make?
(Forgot about my broody hen😅)
 
If I remember correctly leakage isnt what people want in shows or for breeding?
What would black X white make?
(Forgot about my broody hen😅)
Yes leakage is frowned upon in a lot of cases.
Basically just taking one of your cases as an example if you breed a black to a partridge the offspring will have both extended black and partridge genes.
The black will be dominate and try to cover the partridge but the partridge will be stubborn and parts of the pattern will expose itself. That's the "leakage".
Of course if you want or want to show a black bird you want it to be completely black.
The bigger problem is that it's not pure genes to reproduce nice solid black offspring. It'll have lingering genes that will continue to cause issues until bred out. With less dominate genes its harder to Id every bird with them so a pain to get rid of.
Far better to not introduce them unless you want the challenge.
 

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