SG plus silkie would make...

[AHappychick]

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Oh I get it yeah!

Thanks a lot!!!

 

[Dandelion007]

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I'm new to this game. I just got a showgirl with bowtie & no beard. If I breed it to a silkie with a beard, what percentage should be a showgirl with beard and no bowtie?

I want an old mountain man with no tux. Is this possible? Or will this be generations of work?

 

[pbjmaker]

I have a white showgirl and everyone of the chicks I suspect are his are black, so this means his "white lab coat" is hiding black coloring? The moms have been cuckoo marans or a blue frizzle cochin.

 

[Kev]

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You need to breed two showgirls together to have any possiblity of totally bare neck, and even then it's no guarantee.. not all "lines" will produce total bare necks, even when pure for the naked neck gene.

Beard is dominant so it will show up in the cross, so you will have a few bearded showgirls out of this cross.

The naked neck gene can affect the beard though.. a common effect is giving a "side burns" look- having the muffs on sides of face but little or none of the beard part.. (I think very cute).

 

[Kev]

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What you did was essentially cross a white showgirl with a black base chicken. Cuckoo Marans are a black chicken with the barring added.. blue chickens are black chickens with a blue gene. Black is dominant.. so that's an expected result- black, blue or cuckoo chicks. The cuckoo chicks will be boys as it's a sex linked gene.

Silkies and showgirls have the recessive white.. which means if they are crossed with any other color, usually the result is none of the chicks will be white. It's the same concept as the silky feathering- it is also recessive.. so none of the showgirl cross chicks will have silky feathering.

 

[Krys109uk]

Is a show girl another name for a naked neck?

 

[Kev]

Naked neck silkie.

 

[Dandelion007]

Let me know if I have got this straight...

With one Showgirl w/ bowtie and Silkies (2 have beards), I can develop a line of Showgirls w/ bowties however I will not get no bowties. I can also choose to breed the beard in or not.

In order to get the bare necks, I will need to get a Showgirl bare neck to bring that gene into my chicks.

Sounds like the genetics have pretty predictable percentages on the traits you are breeding for.

I'm going to have some fun with this...

 

[Krys109uk]

Naked neck silkie.

Thanks Kev
Wow ......anyone got a photo.....I'd love to see one

 

[pbjmaker]

This guy carries only one copy of the gene from what I understand - thus the bow tie