Lavender Silkie Genetics

[nicalandia]

So it could be possible?

Yes, but the only way to know if your white silkies are hiding lavender is to do a test mating then crossing the F1s together and see what is hiding. so it's going to take quite a few months before you find out

 

[MysteryChicken]

Yes, but the only way to know if your white silkies are hiding lavender is to do a test mating then crossing the F1s together and see what is hiding. so it's going to take quite a few months before you find out

Okay, I will try that sometime. That chick hatched out a different color then the rest, and it resembles the lavender quite a bit.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's a slightly better picture. I have bad lighting.

 

[The Moonshiner]

It doesn't look like a lavender chick.
In theory a white could be covering lavender or carry lavender.
But the hen would of also had to be lavender or carry it.
What was she? I assume the rooster is your hatchery white silkie?
Lavender sillies are still kinda rare so it would be very unlikely a white would carry the gene and almost impossible that one would carry it that came from a hatchery.
I don't see anything that would point to or hint to that chick being lavender or the parents to carry lavender.
Do you or is this another well it kinda looks like it so lets assume it is?

 

[MysteryChicken]

It doesn't look like a lavender chick.
In theory a white could be covering lavender or carry lavender.
But the hen would of also had to be lavender or carry it.
What was she? I assume the rooster is your hatchery white silkie?
Lavender sillies are still kinda rare so it would be very unlikely a white would carry the gene and almost impossible that one would carry it that came from a hatchery.
I don't see anything that would point to or hint to that chick being lavender or the parents to carry lavender.
Do you or is this another well it kinda looks like it so lets assume it is?

I don't just assume, now quit it please?

 

[MysteryChicken]

My main silkie is at my house recovering from injuries from getting beaten up by one of our D'uccles.

 

[MysteryChicken]

More slightly better pictures.

 

[Amer]

White could hide lavender, theoretically, however, I agree on the Moonshiner on this one. Hatcheries don't have lavender Silkies, so you wouldn't produce them, however, that shouldn't deter you from breeding those Silkies.

 

[MysteryChicken]

White could hide lavender, theoretically, however, I agree on the Moonshiner on this one. Hatcheries don't have lavender Silkies, so you wouldn't produce them, however, that shouldn't deter you from breeding those Silkies.

Not exactly true. I have went to hatchery sights that sell lavenders. They're sold as self-Blue.

 

[Amer]

Not exactly true. I have went to hatchery sights that sell lavenders. They're sold as self-Blue.

Well, if the one you have sells those, I suppose the whites could carry them. Lavender is recessive though, so just to outcross to black and then breed back could take a year, at least.