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

[silky ma]

as a lover / owner of silkies.....oOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH
beautiful babes!!!!!!!!!!!Theres nothing like snuggling up with a silky after a long hard day!!!

 

[LuvinMyPeeps]

Your birds are so pretty!

At what age do silkies really develop their crest, if it's going to turn into "awesomeness"?

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

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thanks, that's what I thought!

 

[lovemychix]

beautiful.

 

[Fay at Frizzled Feathers]

Oh WOW , those sure are pretty Silkies.I really love the Calico one! I deffinatly will be watching for more results of your projects with pics!

Fay

 

[Willjg]

Hey there,

I thought this post was awesome to see! I love mixing silkie colors too to see what comes out.

I did the exact same cross as you did ... A buff hen (from a pure buff line) with a white roo (from a pure white line), but my results were entirely different. Mine turned out light-buff partridge... Yours looks more like a red-pyle type to me----and GORGEOUS too. I wish mine had turned out like yours!

So far, I am always surprised by mixing the colors... nothing what is expected comes out in my pens. I've gotten pure ruby red colors, pale creamy-straw colors (not buff) with red necks and tales...and various types of calicos or parti-colors.
Thats the one thing about silkie colors, its a constant surprise to see what comes out.

--The rooster in my avatar came from crossing White x Buff x Black...I never had pure partridge silkies before.

Thank you so much for sharing your pics and your experience with crossing colors!

Take Care,
Bill.

 

[silkielovr]

I just have to join in here because I am wondering what the outcome of a white Silkie on a buff hen would be?
Looks like it could be anything...
What about a Splash hen or a black hen.....Is there no way to figure out what a white bird will add???
I thought it was sort of easy with the black and blue and Splash colors to figure out but I guess white is like a joker card???
Is this correct?
I can't work that calculator... I must be awful dumb but I just don't understand it.
Any advice??
Thanks

 

[Krys109uk]

Is there no way to figure out what a white bird will add???

The reason on cannot usually predict the colour of a recessive white X with another colour is that absolutely any colour of bird, would be white if it had inherited two recessive white genes. Recessive white stops pigment being laid down.​

 

[silkielovr]

Thank You, so white is recessive? But there is a dominant white also?

If I had a white hen and black roo then I would get black, the colors don't "mix"?
In other words, a white bird is always going to pass a white gene but it will be hidden?
I'm sorry I'm so dense......
Let me ask this.... a white bird is hiding nothing, but other colors can be hiding white?
Is this correct?

 

[Krys109uk]

so white is recessive? But there is a dominant white also?

I believe white silkies are usually recessive white. But yes, there is a dominant white....this is the white most usual in white leghorns.

If I had a white hen and black roo then I would get black, the colors don't "mix"?

If we're talking aout recessive white, I don't think there's a way to know for certain, unless you know what other colour genes the bird is carrying. Often one could guess that the offspring would be black with leakage. The only time genes "mix" is if there are two incompletely dominant alleles....like blue. Two blue genes gives a splash bird, two not blue genes gives black (in those zones affected by the gene), but when there is one of each gene the result is an intermediate colour, in this case blue.

In other words, a white bird is always going to pass a white gene but it will be hidden?

With recessive white, yes, exactly.

Let me ask this.... a white bird is hiding nothing, but other colors can be hiding white?
Is this correct?

Two recessive white genes will hide all the other colours (like turning the effcets of the other colour genes off). Any other colour can hide one recessive white gene.​