bauerdog
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Soooo, a white Silkie over colored silkies will get varied colored offspring, right? I have white, blue,porcelain and a red Silkie hen.....no sex linking possible with silkies, right?
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No sexlinking, and you shouldn't cross Blue/Splash birds with birds that have the Lavender gene (porcelain). Makes differentiating which bird is which coloring in subsequent generations, nearly impossible.Soooo, a white Silkie over colored silkies will get varied colored offspring, right? I have white, blue,porcelain and a red Silkie hen.....no sex linking possible with silkies, right?
No sexlinking, and you shouldn't cross Blue/Splash birds with birds that have the Lavender gene (porcelain). Makes differentiating which bird is which coloring in subsequent generations, nearly impossible.
And that recessive white can be hiding just about anything.
Not with those colors, but if you get a cuckoo pullet and a black cockerel, the babies will be black sexlinks (males only will be cuckoo with a white headspot at hatch).Soooo, a white Silkie over colored silkies will get varied colored offspring, right? I have white, blue,porcelain and a red Silkie hen.....no sex linking possible with silkies, right?
The gene that causes the black skin is sexlinked. I forgot about that. It's the rooster that must have the black skin, and only the female chicks will inherit it.With silkies, I know skin color is sex linked when breeding to non silkie. Is it the hen or rooster who needs to be a silkie, and with the chicks is it pullets or cockerels who inherit the dark skin?
The gene that causes the black skin is sexlinked. I forgot about that. It's the rooster that must have the black skin, and only the female chicks will inherit it.
The gene that causes the black skin is sexlinked. I forgot about that. It's the rooster that must have the black skin, and only the female chicks will inherit it.
Frizzle is a completely different gene from the silkie feather gene. Silkie feathering is a recessive gene. Frizzle is a dominant gene. The chicks will likely be sexable at hatching.Does this mean that the chicks would be sexable at hatch? And will outcrossing with smooth feathered breeds will yield frizzled if the rooster is a Silkie?