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[ScaredOfShadows]

on partridge/blue partridge its going to depend. If your blue hatched with partridge markings its already got partridge in teh background and is more likely to throw you some partridgey chicks.

Theres so much contraversy about what shade and amount of markings constitutes blue partridge though. I have seen some like the one I call blue partridge from my shipped eggs, it looks partridge except there what would be black in gold partridge is slate at darkest, and the underfluff that would be slate in a gold partridge is a very light blue, and the gold is paler. Then I have a dark blue girl who was solid blue as a youngster, then by the time she was 4-5 months when I got her from the breeder she was getting some serious gold in her neck and crest...now at 7 months shes got definite gold lacing in the crest, neck, chest, and wings, but shes so dark its hard to see definitely, and I have seen 1 or 2 big breeders who say the majorily medium-dark blue based - take forever to pencil/color in, are 'blue partridge' ...

You are likely to get the lesser noticeable blue with gold leakage type chicks from this crossing, but you'll get better ones when you cross back the blue based offspring from the partridge X blue back with each other and/or a gold partridge.

 

[wildriverswolf90]

Ok thanks so much! All this color/gene stuff is very confusing and new for me.

 

[BHep]

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Makes my head spin

 

[wildriverswolf90]

Ok one more ? Then I promise no more head spinning

……will blue silkie roo and a white hen make a splash?

 

[BHep]

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Blue or Black says the calculator..... what say you SoS....

25% Pullets, blue unicolor
25% Pullets, black unicolor
25% Cockerels, blue unicolor
25% Cockerels, black unicolor

 

[wildriverswolf90]

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Blue or Black says the calculator..... what say you SoS....

25% Pullets, blue unicolor
25% Pullets, black unicolor
25% Cockerels, blue unicolor
25% Cockerels, black unicolor

What does unicolor mean?

 

[BHep]

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Blue or Black says the calculator..... what say you SoS....

25% Pullets, blue unicolor
25% Pullets, black unicolor
25% Cockerels, blue unicolor
25% Cockerels, black unicolor

What does unicolor mean?

I suspect solid colored.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

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What does unicolor mean?

I suspect solid colored.

Uni means single, so Unicolor would stand for single/solid color. but the calculator does not add that some colors and crosses generate color leakage.

To answer your question no you will not get splash.
Also theres no guarantee that calculator is right. - because white is a "mystery" color, its like a room with a light switch..

Most white birds are a genetic's mystery until you breed them, and even then it can still be a mystery. Think of White as an off switch. it cuts the switch off for color (you have a room full of information/furniture ), but just because the lights are off doesn't mean the room is empty right? So a white bird can be hiding any color of combination of genes in the 'dark room' so to speak.

to get a white bird both parents have to carry a copy of the white gene and pass it on to the offspring. but one white parent X a colored parent who did not come from white genetics, can give you any kind of color, because a white bird typically isn't 'pure' so it can throw blues, lavenders, black, red, partridge, buff, silver, etc.

To get a splash you need 2 blue birds, 2 splash birds, or a blue X splash

heres the genetic "soup" of blues, splash, and blacks

Blue x Blue will yield 50% Blue, 25% Black, and 25% Splash chicks

Blue x Black will yield 50% Blue and 50% Black chicks

Black X Black will yield 100% black chicks

Black x Splash will yield 100% Blue chicks

Blue x Splash will yield 50% Blue and 50% Splash chicks

Splash x Splash will yield 100% Splash chicks

oh I wanted to add, the percentages are give and take, because its not egg #1 is blue, egg #2 will be splash, etc... if say you hatch 100 chicks out of the same group of parents (say blue on blue) you should get round about these percentages - but you have to account for fertility, what actually hatches vs what doesn't hatch.

 

[Matt A NC]

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It depends on what type of white. A dominant white, which is geneticaly silver, will produce all white chicks. A recessive white is what most are and can be very interesting. Since R-white is not a color, but a lack of color you never know what colors are in the genectic makeup of the white bird.

AND one note about that calculator: It is based on science. When mixing colors, especially non-solid colors, it is wrong more often then right. One example is: I have hatched some Cream Light brown X red pyle. According to the calculator the female offspring should be black patterned gold duckwing. The little hen that I hatched a couple years ago is sort of a smutty red pyle.

I have a few other examples which can include pictures of times that it was WRONG.

Matt

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

agreed with Matt, you do have Dominant and recessive whites

BUT most whites take 2 copies to get white offspring, but again white if you don't know where it came from, until you breed it, you do not know what it is and what its 'hiding'