Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[Sonoran Silkies]

Splash X splash will only gve splash. HOWEVER, splash can be very, very dilute. In some colour patterns (such as golden neck) you can create teh pattern with either domnant white or with splash. When splash is used in these patterns, it is usually very diluted, meaning that it has been bred homozygously for many generations, pretty much completely diluting ALL black pigment.

White at hatch does not mean the bird is not splash; just means that the bird is very diluted.

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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They stayed white! They were from the same breeding, so full brother & sister. I have hatched hundreds of birds, I know what a splash looks like. They were born yellow down, ie recessive white silkie, and stayed white up until I sold them off as pets at 6 months of age. The rest of their chicks followed the rules and were splashes.

Funny, I posted this same info well over a year ago, and you agreed, that yes it was possible to get recessive white birds from splash when they were related because they had white somewhere in there genetic backgrounds.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Brody's Broodello :

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They stayed white! They were from the same breeding, so full brother & sister. I have hatched hundreds of birds, I know what a splash looks like. They were born yellow down, ie recessive white silkie, and stayed white up until I sold them off as pets at 6 months of age. The rest of their chicks followed the rules and were splashes.

Funny, I posted this same info well over a year ago, and you agreed, that yes it was possible to get recessive white birds from splash when they were related because they had white somewhere in there genetic backgrounds.

Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying just now; I thought you were saying that they were white because their chick down was white versus the typical splash colourings of chick down. Yes, you can get recessive white showing up from any two birds who each carry a hidden copy.

I've had very, very few yellow-downed whites; until I started paints, all but two whites have had white down; those two had very, very pale yellow down--not at all the yellow down that turns to white plumage in other breeds. With the paints I have seen my first yellow-downed silkies that turned into white feathering. So I did not understand you to be saying that the down was yellow.​

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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They stayed white! They were from the same breeding, so full brother & sister. I have hatched hundreds of birds, I know what a splash looks like. They were born yellow down, ie recessive white silkie, and stayed white up until I sold them off as pets at 6 months of age. The rest of their chicks followed the rules and were splashes.

Funny, I posted this same info well over a year ago, and you agreed, that yes it was possible to get recessive white birds from splash when they were related because they had white somewhere in there genetic backgrounds.

Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying just now; I thought you were saying that they were white because their chick down was white versus the typical splash colourings of chick down. Yes, you can get recessive white showing up from any two birds who each carry a hidden copy.

I've had very, very few yellow-downed whites; until I started paints, all but two whites have had white down; those two had very, very pale yellow down--not at all the yellow down that turns to white plumage in other breeds. With the paints I have seen my first yellow-downed silkies that turned into white feathering. So I did not understand you to be saying that the down was yellow.

No problem, they were the first yellow downed chicks, since my whites usually hatched a shaded grey/blue color, then molted out to whites.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Thought about my post last night while trying to fall asleep and came up with this analogy.

Genetically, the bird is still a splash, and will pass a blue gene to all its offspring; it will also pass a copy recessive white to al of them.

Think of the bird as like being a labeled can. The label says splash, and not-snow-white-down, and gold, and maybe a few other things that identify the genetic composition of the plumage. Then along comes the sneaky no-colour gene and rips off the label. Now somone looking into the pantry sees the can, but has no idea what is in it because there is no label. The contents have not changed; it is just missing the label.

 

[pennie1]

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LOL!!! That's awesome!!!!

 

[Debbi]

Did anyone here go to the Sedalia, MO show? Anyone know where to find results?

 

[peepblessed]

Beth G. :

I got a funny shot of Tater my Hattrick Light Partridge boy trying to impress the ladies today!!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/61583_bethany-20111023-006411.jpg

I think, he thinks he actually flew up off the air

I didn't have the heart to tell him otherwise...

This was the pullet he was impressing. I think the look on her beak says it all hehehe

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/61583_bethany-20111023-006381.jpg

 

[peepblessed]

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Love this!!!

 

[pennie1]

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Do you get the Poultry Press? You may find it there, or if it's a recognized show you may find it on APA or ASBC