Mixing silkie colours

[Cchurchill91]

Anyone have experiencing mixing silkie colours? I have a white silkie rooster and the one hen is pictured below. Curious to know what colours I would end up with from them. Is the hen considered partridge? Thanks.

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

Oh such a cutie! Love the colouring on your girl!

@LynnaePB and @LadiesAndJane are great with colours so they may be able to answer your question

 

[NatJ]

Anyone have experiencing mixing silkie colours? I have a white silkie rooster and the one hen is pictured below. Curious to know what colours I would end up with from them. Is the hen considered partridge? Thanks.

I think partridge is usually black and brown, with no white. So the hen would not be considered partridge.

Breeding a white Silkie rooster to that hen is likely to give some partridge chicks and/or some chicks colored like the mother.

But there are several sets of genes that can cause a "white" chicken, so that prediction is based on a guess of what is most likely for Silkies. If he has different genes for white, you might get chicks that are all white, or all black, or various other options.

 

[LynnaePB]

I agree with NatJ.

When a white parent is involved it just gets really hard to predict offspring if you don't know their genetic background already. The chicks you get from the pairing should help unravel the genetics of the parents though.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Anyone have experiencing mixing silkie colours? I have a white silkie rooster and the one hen is pictured below. Curious to know what colours I would end up with from them. Is the hen considered partridge? Thanks.

Your lovely hen here looks like she has some dominant white and autosomal red going on. She is not partridge. Will be very interesting to see what the chicks look like. Please keep us posted!

 

[Pandang81]

Anyone have experiencing mixing silkie colours? I have a white silkie rooster and the one hen is pictured below. Curious to know what colours I would end up with from them. Is the hen considered partridge? Thanks.

I predict some white chicks out of this cross. , please keep us posted

 

[Clodill4rel]

Anyone have experiencing mixing silkie colours? I have a white silkie rooster and the one hen is pictured below. Curious to know what colours I would end up with from them. Is the hen considered partridge? Thanks.

I have a silky mix and want to hatch eggs back to silky…… here are the pics of mom and two babies they were mixed from a lavender olive egger Roo. Should I go back to all white or something different ? Mama in the pool off spring male and female I have an all white silky Roo and a tri colored roo ….. and a blue female a tri colored female and a black and white paint for the Roo to bread back to…… what ones would you all do ? Oh I also have one black NN with a bow tie Roo

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

I have a silky mix and want to hatch eggs back to silky…… here are the pics of mom and two babies they were mixed from a lavender olive egger Roo. Should I go back to all white or something different ? Mama in the pool off spring male and female I have an all white silky Roo and a tri colored roo ….. and a blue female a tri colored female and a black and white paint for the Roo to bread back to…… what ones would you all do ? Oh I also have one black NN with a bow tie Roo

I can't help but cute pic of the pool chick!

 

[Clodill4rel]

Anyone have experiencing mixing silkie colours? I have a white silkie rooster and the one hen is pictured below. Curious to know what colours I would end up with from them. Is the hen considered partridge? Thanks.