Help with Silkie information please!

[Fox]

I recently got a beautiful Blue Silkie rooster and want to know what color offspring he will produce if bred with A- Partridge B- White? Anyone know? I know if you breed blue to blue you get splash... but I don't really know anything else! LOL! I love my roo, and my partridge pullets have a lot of blue in them, so I think it would be possible that they could throw some blue chicks. What is proper? Is there anywhere I can read about proper color breeding? I have looked, but the only link I found was so complex I could not follow it.

Thanks for any help you can give!

 

[Pathfinders]

Working with the Blue gene in poultry is somewhat complicated, but easier than you think.

In Silkies, it works like this:

Black x Black = 100% Black

Black x Blue = 50% Black, 50% Blue

Blue x Blue = 50% Blue, 25% Black and 25% Splash

Splash x Black = 100% Blue

Splash x Blue = 50% Splash and 50% Blue

Splash x Splash = 100% Splash


Breeding your Blue bird to a White bird is a crapshoot, as it will depend on what the White bird has under the White gene. Until you hatch some chicks form the combo, you won't know what you'll get.

I personally wouldn't breed to the Partridge bird, but that's just me. If I were you I'd look for either some Blue or Black birds to breed my Blue cock bird to.

 

[Fox]

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Thanks for the information! I had hoped to get some blue Silkie hatching eggs, but it did not work out as the hens just weren't laying well. I ended up getting the rooster instead. I am very happy with him though. Maybe someday I can get some quality blue/black hatching eggs.