Silkie color genetics

[alliandme]

G'day!

I am hopefully building a pen much like this one :https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=32956 for silkie bantams. I want white ones to show. I want to start of with 3-5, though with the area I have planned for it, following the bantam ruke, 2 square feet per bird, I could have 8 at the very max, though seven would be ideal. I'm going to raise it 3ft off the ground, and the actual pen is going to be 7x4ft, with a 6ft ladder. The run will be 20x4ft.
Would it help to keep them clean by closing in the weather side? And if I got a rooster in for a while, would it have to be white to get a white?
Sounds like a silly question, but I've had a palimino horse by a palamino stallion, and gotton a chestnut -.-

 

[Henk69]

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The topic's title is SilKie color genetics not SilLy...

Palominos are heterozygous for the Cream gene.
So next to palominos you can get cremellos and chestnuts.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

For whites, best to breed together.

 

[MyLittleFarm1]

I just got my first batch of silkies hatched out. I thought the silkie hatching color was their adult color. Do they change color as they get older? Mine all hatched with a almost black body and sort of gray butt and underbody.. Will they change.. I bred my little splash to a white rooster.

 

[MyLittleFarm1]

I found this on the net it might be helpful..

 

[mustang56]

They are so cute......they look just like mine.....that are now 1 week old....mom and dad are both black.
But I'm new at this...but have looked up other black silkie chicks...and some of those pictures look
just like yours...

 

[pinkdog310]

How do you get a gray silkie? I have 2 silver partridges and one I think is a gray but I wouldn't know what to breed them to. I would love to have true grays...but the color calculator thing is way beyond me. Can someone help me out here...in english? I also have whites, blues, and blacks.

 

[tadkerson]

This chart has some problems- there is no spangling gene ( as in spitzhauben), no sg black gene ( recessive black), no Lg or lacing gene, or Ab autosomal barring gene.

red + dilute does not equal buff
quail is wrong
ginger gene is the columbian gene


The term partridge can mean different variates to people on different continents.
E is not partridge
e^P is the same as the brown allele at the E locus
e^y is recessive wheaten and the males could be considered a partridge phenotype ( as in male polish green legged partridge or even a male partridge wyandotte) but the females will be a wheaten phenotype

Tim

I found this on the net it mgight be helpful..

 

[MyLittleFarm1]

From my experience and what I have been told white Silkies will throw black babies.. I'm not sure how you get the white ones so I'm experimenting with different colors..

 

[moomoodiddy]

recently i hayched out 13 adorable healthy silkies from my white silkies and come to find out somewhere along the line i ended up with 2 splash chicks.. i was wondering how that happpened and if i breed a white and a splash what will happen. thanks yall