Do I want to learn about genetics? Yes. Is it very intimidating and scary? Yes.

[EmmaRainboe]

Paint has something to do with like dominant white right? Or is it recessive? What genes would I need to change to turn a blue silkie to paint?

 

[Amer]

Paint has something to do with like dominant white right? Or is it recessive? What genes would I need to change to turn a blue silkie to paint?

Dominant white.
You would need one dominant white gene and you would have to turn off the blue gene.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Dominant white.
You would need one dominant white gene and you would have to turn off the blue gene.

Would this be a paint silkie?

 

[Amer]

Would this be a paint silkie?
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Yep!

 

[ChickForLife]

Would this be a black silkie?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Would this be a dominique?

 

[Amer]

Would this be a dominique?
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Yes. You’ve become very good at this.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Yes. You’ve become very good at this.

Yay! Thank you!

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Do cream legbars and Ameraucana's both have the same egg genes with O/O? Or do they lay different kinds of blue eggs that brown genes change? What kind of blue would you get from a chick that is from an Ameraucana x Cream Legbar cross?

 

[FuzzyCritters]

Do cream legbars and Ameraucana's both have the same egg genes with O/O? Or do they lay different kinds of blue eggs that brown genes change? What kind of blue would you get from a chick that is from an Ameraucana x Cream Legbar cross?

The blue egg gene is the same for all breeds that lay blue eggs.