question for genetic experts on silkie feathering

[CindyS]

If I crossed my silkie feathered serama pullets with a Silkie rooster, would the babies turn out silkied.? The pullets parents are normal feather serama, but must carry the silkied gene.

 

[catwalk]

Silkied feathering is recessive. If your bird has silkied feathers, it has two copies of the gene and will pass one along to all its offspring. When bred to a silkied mate, all offspring will have two copies of the recessive gene, and all will be silkied! Cross your Serama to her father and half your offspring will be silkied.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Why must it carry the silkie gene? Was one of the parents silkied? That, or if it already has silkied offspring are the only ways you would know.