Mixing silkie colors..pics of how I got certain colors

[Krys109uk]

You are describing one versus two copies of an incompletely dominant gene; I'm referring to separate genes that interact, regardless of whether there is one or two copies of either--just that there are sufficient copies for the gene to "work."

It seems to be a common idea that breeding two different colours of something, in this case chickens, may lead to the intermediate colour. Like mixing paint. In reality there are very few instances where the actual results from breeding two different colours together will lead to an intermediate colour. Breeding black to splash is one.​

 

[Krys109uk]

The grays i got were patterned, and i got other colors from mixing black and white..its a good way to get both blue partridge & the red variety.

It may be a good ay for you to get the various colours, but what Suze & I are saying is that crossing white to anything is not a reliable way of getting anything, because everyones white can give different results.

I think you'd find that if silkies did not have hookless feathering the results could look very different pattern wise. Patterns in silkies do not show up well which probably hides a lot.​

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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It seems to be a common idea that breeding two different colours of something, in this case chickens, may lead to the intermediate colour. Like mixing paint. In reality there are very few instances where the actual results from breeding two different colours together will lead to an intermediate colour. Breeding black to splash is one.

That is why I was using dilution (and exhancing) genes as examples of the few that work that way. Perhaps I didn't make it sufficiently clear that the vast majority of genes do not blend together. For example, breeding a red chicken to a blue chicken does not yield a purple chicken.

 

[melissa508]

It may be a good ay for you to get the various colours, but what Suze & I are saying is that crossing white to anything is not a reliable way of getting anything, because everyones white can give different results.

I totally agree..not a reliable way to get any consistancy. In my case it was good to get me rolling with some really nice grays that surprisingly bred true when bred to a gray male i obtained..with the exception of an occasoinal black with the dreaded silver hackles.​

 

[bpgraham]

Can anyone help with these? These two colors came out of my Partridge Hen and a White Roo with the double "smokey gene" or a "Silver white"..???????

Pretty, but I'm pretty baffled!

 

[Cavemansgal]

I am wondering what colors I need to breed to get calico, I saw pics on the Internet and absolutely have to have some.