Silkie color genetics.

[MysteryChicken]

No, it doesn't work that way.
If he does not have Silkie feathers, he is not a Silkie.
The silkie feathers are caused by a recessive gene, so crossing two pure Silkies should NEVER produce a bird with normal feathers.

To get a Satin (normal feathers), someone needs to cross in a normal-feathered bird, at which point the offspring are not PURE Silkies anymore.


I think he must be.

I was talking about breedwise.

I know the whole silkie gene thing, since I do breed silkies, & Satins are just another variety of the breed, but without the Silkie Feather gene h/h.

Of course silkie mixes will also result in solid feathers.

To create a Satin, breed Silkie to another breed, such a Polish, or Cochin(For Example) Take offspring Breed together. Half will be Silkied, & half will be smooth. Take only the smooth feathered, black skinned, crested, & five toed offspring produced, & breed those together. These would be Generation 2 of making Satins.

Same process of creating different colored, or larger sized silkies, but reversed.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I got similar color breeding
This

To this (the bird on the right, not sure what her color is actually called)