Can you mix silver leghron cockerel with other leghorn(hen) colors to get chicks that are like dad or mom.

[Nenad]

Can you mix Silver leghorn roo with other leghorn hen color to get chicks that are color like dad or like mom? Can it be like in australorps where you mix lets say black and blue and offspring gets 50% blue and 50% black?

 

[1muttsfan]

You are talking about birds with the Andalusian Blue color, also called Blue-Black-Splash (as opposed to Self Blue or Lavender). It is a somewhat unique color set that involves the Black gene. The Blue gene modifies the Black gene. Black birds have 2 genes for Black coloration. Blue birds have one Black and one Blue gene. And Splash have 2 genes for Blue. This color set can be found in many breeds. It does not work with other color genes.

Mixing different color birds of the same breed will seldom result in recognized colors for that breed, but you might get some pretty birds out of it.

 

[The Moonshiner]

You can cross a silver leghorn rooster with light brown leghorn hen and get silver leghorn pullets. They won't look like dad because of course duckwing males and females have different patterns.
The cockerels will look like dad except with age they'll have a yellowish look in hackles, back and saddles since they will carry both silver and gold. They may also get autosomal red that will show in the shoulders.
If you cross with a white leghorn hen you'll get white in both sexes but you'll most likely have a few specks of black here and there.

 

[Nenad]

You can cross a silver leghorn rooster with light brown leghorn hen and get silver leghorn pullets. They won't look like dad because of course duckwing males and females have different patterns.
The cockerels will look like dad except with age they'll have a yellowish look in hackles, back and saddles since they will carry both silver and gold. They may also get autosomal red that will show in the shoulders.
If you cross with a white leghorn hen you'll get white in both sexes but you'll most likely have a few specks of black here and there.

If I cross to light brown leghorn hen, will femeles look like pure silver leghorns or will they also with age gain yellowish?

 

[The Moonshiner]

They'll look pure. Silver/gold is sex linked so they only get one gene for that and it comes from their father.
So Silver duckwing male will pass silver to his daughters.
The cockerel offspring will get silver from father but also gold from mothers that's what will cause the yellowish look.