Lavender gene in Silkies... new project?

[msiler]

I have just a few questions on the lavender gene in Silkies before I go ahead and jump on the lavender bandwagon!

1) Lavender is a diluting gene. Is it over a black bird or a partridge bird? EE or e^b/e^b?

2) If it is over a black bird, which I believe it is, could you have a lavender bird that is blue or splash underneath or would the two diluting genes cancel each other out?
Ex: EE, lav/lav, B/b OR B/B
(If this works, I may want this to be my first project!!)

3) Is Porcelain a partridge bird with two copies of lavender?

 

[PioneerChicks]

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[MysteryChicken]

I have just a few questions on the lavender gene in Silkies before I go ahead and jump on the lavender bandwagon!

1) Lavender is a diluting gene. Is it over a black bird or a partridge bird? EE or e^b/e^b?

2) If it is over a black bird, which I believe it is, could you have a lavender bird that is blue or splash underneath or would the two diluting genes cancel each other out?
Ex: EE, lav/lav, B/b OR B/B
(If this works, I may want this to be my first project!!)

3) Is Porcelain a partridge bird with two copies of lavender?

Lavender is diluted black that can pretty much play on any color variety that has black genes. Blue is also diluted black.
E/E, Di/Di, or Lav/Lav.
I believe lavender can be achieved using blue, Bl/Bl, Di/Di

I don't know a ton about lavender, I'm still studying genetics.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Porcelain has lavender genes.

 

[Amer]

1 Lavender (also known as self blue) is over black. (EE) It is already found in Silkies, and fairly easy to find as well.
2 Because they are different alleles, lavender and blue or lavender can be on the same bird. In fact, I own some myself. However, they are very hard to spot without breeding to a bird that is not lavender. In my d’Anvers, the lavender blues are an almost white but with black feather quills. They have less feather shredding as well. I suspect that this would be very hard to spot in Silkies. I am supposing that lavender splashes would be white. Lavender blues and splashes are quite unimpressive and not worth the effort.
3 While porcelain is very different in other breeds, (partridge, columbian, mottled, lavender) I believe your statement in porcelain Silkies being partridge and lavender is true.

 

[Amer]

Lavender blue. (Excuse the feather quality and the blurriness, she’s molting currently and also decided to turn around in the roost.)

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's my Porcelain D'Uccle X White Silkie cross. She got the lavender gene from both parents. Her father is a white Silkie who's split to lavender.

 

[msiler]

1 Lavender (also known as self blue) is over black. (EE) It is already found in Silkies, and fairly easy to find as well.
2 Because they are different alleles, lavender and blue or lavender can be on the same bird. In fact, I own some myself. However, they are very hard to spot without breeding to a bird that is not lavender. In my d’Anvers, the lavender blues are an almost white but with black feather quills. They have less feather shredding as well. I suspect that this would be very hard to spot in Silkies. I am supposing that lavender splashes would be white. Lavender blues and splashes are quite unimpressive and not worth the effort.
3 While porcelain is very different in other breeds, (partridge, columbian, mottled, lavender) I believe your statement in porcelain Silkies being partridge and lavender is true.

Thank you for sharing this and the pictures! They are pretty but I think you are right, it seems like a lot of effort to go through for something that looks essentially like a lavender bird!

 

[msiler]

If anyone has any ideas on a color project that could be produced with Blue, Black, or Splash as a parent, let me know! I am open to ideas!

 

[MysteryChicken]

If anyone has any ideas on a color project that could be produced with Blue, Black, or Splash as a parent, let me know! I am open to ideas!

Khaki, maybe. It's another diluted black color.