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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.
