Color questions!

[Pampered chicken girl]

I have some questions of what color will my chicks be from these pairings.
1. Paint silkie rooster x columbian buff silkie/EE hen
2. Paint silkie rooster x barred silkie/EE hen
3. Paint silkie rooster x Paint silkie hen
4. Paint silkie rooster x black white creasted polish hen

If you can answer these in simple terms it helps! Also if you can answer as
"1. Xxxx"
"2.xxxx"
Ect.
Ect.
It helps me to understand which you are talking about.
Thank you so much!!!!!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I have some questions of what color will my chicks be from these pairings.
1. Paint silkie rooster x columbian buff silkie/EE hen
2. Paint silkie rooster x barred silkie/EE hen
3. Paint silkie rooster x Paint silkie hen
4. Paint silkie rooster x black white creasted polish hen

If you can answer these in simple terms it helps! Also if you can answer as
"1. Xxxx"
"2.xxxx"
Ect.
Ect.
It helps me to understand which you are talking about.
Thank you so much!!!!!

1 and 2. Not sure. What color exactly are these hens? Photos might help.
50/50 on feather type if moms are half Silkie and dad is all Silkie. Chicks will be 75% Silkie.
3. 50% paint, 25% black, 25% dominant white
4. 50% black, 50% paint, all with smooth feathers.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

For the first one, you'll see roughly equal numbers of black offspring and white offspring, both most likely with varying amounts of reddish or buff color leaking through as they feather in.

The second one, barring is sexlinked, so the mother can only pass that to her sons and not to her daughters. The father being Paint will pass dominant white (the gene that causes Paint) to half of the offspring, indiscriminate of their sex. So you'll get 25% Paint males with barring, 25% Paint females, 25% black males with barring, and 25% black females. The non-Paint chicks are sexable by presence or absence of a head spot, where males have a head spot that signifies barring and females do not. Since the Paint offspring have dominant white, that head spot likely will not be visible on them, at least not reliably so.

Agree with LadiesandJane on the other two possible mothers!

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

1 and 2. Not sure. What color exactly are these hens? Photos might help.
50/50 on feather type if moms are half Silkie and dad is all Silkie. Chicks will be 75% Silkie.
3. 50% paint, 25% black, 25% dominant white
4. 50% black, 50% paint, all with smooth feathers.

Thanks! Here are pictures of the columbian buff and the barred one!

For the first one, you'll see roughly equal numbers of black offspring and white offspring, both most likely with varying amounts of reddish or buff color leaking through as they feather in.

The second one, barring is sexlinked, so the mother can only pass that to her sons and not to her daughters. The father being Paint will pass dominant white (the gene that causes Paint) to half of the offspring, indiscriminate of their sex. So you'll get 25% Paint males with barring, 25% Paint females, 25% black males with barring, and 25% black females. The non-Paint chicks are sexable by presence or absence of a head spot, where males have a head spot that signifies barring and females do not. Since the Paint offspring have dominant white, that head spot likely will not be visible on them, at least not reliably so.

Agree with LadiesandJane on the other two possible mothers!

Thanks!!!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Thanks! Here are pictures of the columbian buff and the barred one! View attachment 3260340View attachment 3260341

Thanks!!!

Beautiful girls! Nothing new to add that @pipdzipdnreadytogo hasn’t already written.
Please keep us posted when the chicks hatch!

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Beautiful girls! Nothing new to add that @pipdzipdnreadytogo hasn’t already written.
Please keep us posted when the chicks hatch!

Thanks! I will, I'm planning on setting the eggs as soon as my silkie lays one(she is not a good layer) so hopefully within the next 2 weeks! I can't wait!!! It's my first time!

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Well, one hatched.....this is messed up! She's the barred ones baby and she's not paint or black or barred! She's blue!!! She looks more blue in person!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Certainly not out of the realm of possibilities. One of the parents must carry blue, and the barred hen looks black to me, so it must be your rooster. Do you have any pictures of him?

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Certainly not out of the realm of possibilities. One of the parents must carry blue, and the barred hen looks black to me, so it must be your rooster. Do you have any pictures of him?

Sure! Let me find some.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Here's the rooster