Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

[silver1polish]

OMG your silkies or so... cute

i'm sorry i don't have any awnsers for you

but any ways your silkies are verry verry pretty GOOD LUCK

 

[kabhyper1]

Any opinions on my 5 month old boy? He is correct in his toes.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Very nice! In the last photo, his wing is droopy. You may want to work with him for holding his wing tightly closed.

 

[kabhyper1]

Very nice!  In the last photo, his wing is droopy.  You may want to work with him for holding his wing tightly closed.

Thanks! He was hot. That may have been why he was holding it down. His comb is a mulberry color, but it has some light spots, not red, just highlights lol, I hope that is okay.

 

[kabhyper1]

Okay I have a question. If a black roo with silver leakage over a paint hen darkens the spots on paint chicks, would a blue roo with silver leakage darken the splashes on splash chicks when bred to a splash hen? Does it work the same way as the black and paint? I have 2 boys that have silver leakage, a blue and his son, a black.



My other 2 boys a blue without leakage and a white, will go over blue and black hens and white hens.



I'm just trying to decide if I should keep my boys with leakage, if they will do me any good. They are both nice, just have the silver gene apparently. I dont have paints yet, but I do want some.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Blacks with silver leakage being bred to paints is based on the theory that silver will help clear up off-coloured hackles in paints, not that they will darken the black spots.

Splash breeding is entirely separate. Blue has a wide variation of expression from very dark to very light, and the same holds true with splash (two copies of the blue gene). Adding melanizers will likely darken splash, but not just the splashings, also the background colour.

 

[kabhyper1]

Thanks! So could I still use my blue boy with leakage for breeding? He throws babies without leakage. The blue roo I have without leakage is his son.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Silver leakage on a splash wouldn't be very noticeable; silver leakage on a blue is. How old is the son without leakage? Chances are he will get some as he ages. If he is several years old without leakage; he won't get any, and he is definitely a keeper/breeder.

 

[kabhyper1]

Blacks with silver leakage being bred to paints is based on the theory that silver will help clear up off-coloured hackles in paints, not that they will darken the black spots. 

Splash breeding is entirely separate.  Blue has a wide variation of expression from very dark to very light, and the same holds true with splash (two copies of the blue gene).  Adding melanizers will likely darken splash, but not just the splashings, also the background colour.

Silver leakage on a splash wouldn't be very noticeable; silver leakage on a blue is.  How old is the son without leakage?  Chances are he will get some as he ages.  If he is several years old without leakage; he won't get any, and he is definitely a keeper/breeder.

the one with leakage and the one without are brothers same age. 10 months

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

It's not uncommon for leakage to show up as late as two years.