Recessive and dominant white in silkies

[truegritacd0]

I've had paint silkies for several years now and they were just a fun pen but this past year I've decided to concentrate on improving the quality of my birds and focusing on colors. I know that when breeding paints you're supposed to get paints, blacks and whites but in the several years I've been breeding this particular group of birds. I always get comments about them having good white color and not having any yellow/gold leakage. I've never produced solid blacks or solid whites until this year. I have not added any new paints to my line since I got the original birds I started with, except this year I put one of my white showgirls hens with them to get paint showgirls. I've gotten solid white birds this year and hatched 3 chicks with partridge feathers, not black. I read on a post in byc, that paints are basically a partridge bird with dominant white gene. Any info is appreciated and should I keep the whites and breed them to see what I get?
I've added some pics of 2 of my paints and some from the birds that have partridge feathers.

 

[Debbie292d]

Oh boy. We were just talking about partridge silkies in my silkies thread, but never heard of nor had an issue with partridge getting into my paints.

What two birds were you breeding before you added the showgirl? If it was two paints, then yes, you should have been getting blacks and whites as well as paints. 100% paint is achieved by breeding a dominant white silkie to a black silkie.

If you start here on my thread, pay attention to what @NatJ posted in a couple spots about the partridge and dominant white. That might help.