- Apr 15, 2013
- 300
- 9
- 88
Thinking about purchasing some silkies! Any input?
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
I didn't know chickens had a "CHOP HERE" line.![]()
Very nice! Congrats on the first show and fantastic results! I hope my little cockerel does well this Sunday. It will be our first show also.![]()
Very cute chicks.Okay...question most likely for Suze. I have read a bit here and there or heard mention of a silver gene in whites. I am wondering if a recessive white covering up blue is similar or the same? I ask because my one splash girl is in with my whites and I can't tell which egg is hers so they all get incubated. Her eggs hatched out six blues and one partridge. So my cockerel carries blue obviously. Could this blue under my whites have any kind of impact as far as bettering white? Hope this is making sense...
Here are some of the cuties my Idgie produced.
Since these are out of a white and a splash should I expect any ill effects as far as color as they mature? As opposed to them being from a bbs pen...
Very cute chicks.
My understanding of recessive white is - if the bird doesn't carry two copies it doesn't show up. There will be nothing when they grow up to show they have recessive white - except their chicks could be all white if crossed to another bird carrying recessive white - or if crossed back to a white bird.
I am not sure what silver gene you are talking about - silver is a sex linked recessive gene and would show up in the females if one copy, and in the males only if there are two copies.
Did you mean that using a silver based bird is better for whites because it doesn't allow gold leakage? Yes That I have heard of, but if your whites are Silver (s/s) you are crossing Silver into a possible gold based (S/S) (B/B/S is usually gold based) so that would change the dynamics and you would get silver, gold or golden (roosters only) based birds. Since your hen probably is S/+ (since hens only give one copy) all your males would be S/s (golden) and the females S/+ - IF your whites are silver based. This breeding will not "better" your white if you are introducing Gold into your birds. By this breeding you mean the blue crossed back to my white or are you referring to the initial splash X white? Both? Basically it would be a bad idea to leave a blue offspring in with my whites because bbs is gold based. Thus I could be introducing gold into my whites. Is that what you are saying?
Your white rooster doesn't carry blue - because you would have had splash chicks. Thanks - I have a tendency to think of blue as in recessive blue in dogs...![]()
All your blue and partridge chicks will carry recessive white- and when bred together will create white birds if the chicks get two copies. If she is also throwing partridge the hen and the rooster both are E/e^b so you sometimes get E (blue) from her and sometimes e^b/e^b (Blue Partridge).
Quote:
thanks! her/his name ia Marshmallow
Quote:
I am still learning about chicken genetics.. but I believe the initial breeding you did created birds that are "split" to recessive white with blue added. If your Splash is gold based - you introduced gold into your maybe silver based whites. If your whites were already gold based then you just put blue in there. Mixing colors is always interesting...
Hmmm.. maybe we have a clue here. You did say they throw partridge chicks - are they silver partridge or gold partridge? That will tell you if she is gold or silver based - it shows up in the partridges pretty well. The boys would be Golden if the father is silver and mother gold.. and the girls would be silver since they don't get anything from their mother. Hmm... sex linked partridge babies?
You can breed your blue girls back to their white father because I just realized I messed up above. The mother doesn't give her gold to her daughters.. her daughters would carry only S/+ from their father, not s+/+. They BOYS on the other hand would be really mixed up...
Yes, chicken genetics are all messed up if you are used to "normal" animal genetics... just remember - we are dealing with dinosaurs here...![]()
Dyslexia strikes again - S is silver and s+ is gold..
I am still learning about chicken genetics.. but I believe the initial breeding you did created birds that are "split" to recessive white with blue added. If your Splash is gold based - you introduced gold into your maybe silver based whites. If your whites were already gold based then you just put blue in there. Mixing colors is always interesting...
Hmmm.. maybe we have a clue here. You did say they throw partridge chicks - are they silver partridge or gold partridge? That will tell you if she is gold or silver based - it shows up in the partridges pretty well. The boys would be Golden if the father is silver and mother gold.. and the girls would be silver since they don't get anything from their mother. Hmm... sex linked partridge babies?
You can breed your blue girls back to their white father because I just realized I messed up above. The mother doesn't give her gold to her daughters.. her daughters would carry only s/+ from their father, not S/+. They BOYS on the other hand would be really mixed up...
Yes, chicken genetics are all messed up if you are used to "normal" animal genetics... just remember - we are dealing with dinosaurs here...![]()