Silkie color genetics

[workinnanie]

He is a beauty!

 

[Adorkable]

He is a beauty!

Thank you. He's a cutie boy. I wish I knew what to breed him to. I just read on another thread where sonoran silkies said "porcelains have two copies of lavender, so bred to a lavender will not further dilute them". I was wanting to see if I put him over some Lav girls it would dilute the dark buff color.

I'm guessing maybe I should just try and find porcelain silkie eggs to hatch some girls for him. Right now he is with a few white girls, and I've hatched a few pets from them, but I am really wanting to do something a little more productive with him cause ya know... he's so prettiful

 

[ashtree]

 Thank you. He's a cutie boy. I wish I knew what to breed him to. I just read on another thread where sonoran silkies said "porcelains have two copies of lavender, so bred to a lavender will not further dilute them". I was wanting to see if I put him over some Lav girls it would dilute the dark buff color.

I'm guessing maybe I should just try and find porcelain silkie eggs to hatch some girls for him. Right now he is with a few white girls, and I've hatched a few pets from them, but I am really wanting to do something a little more productive with him cause ya know... he's so prettiful  

Agreed! I think if you get some good porcelain girls (without leakage) you should get some really pretty babies! He's matured very nicely!

 

[Adorkable]

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Probably gonna be a pain to find porcelain eggs I think, but I will try. His wing is usually not hanging low like tha,t but I think he wasn't sure if he wanted to charge at me or wing dance for me... he's a spicy little boy lol.

 

[Sansilkies]

Well, first you need to define "true colour." /img/smilies/wink.png


Yes, you could get a colour that meets the standard for a specific variety. 


For example, if you are breeding a specific variety (doesn;t matter which) and you have a cock and a hen who each carry one copy of recessive white, you will hatch some white chicks.  In this case you know their genetic background, and if you take one of those white birds and breed it back into your coloured birds it will breed as true as any other random bird selected from your flock.


However in most cases you don't have a clue as to the genetic makeup of your whites, so you don't really know how to pair each one.  What you can do if some test breeding to see what colours segregate out of a specific bird.  Black is probably the colour least likely to add in various pattern or colour modifiers.

How does the fact that a white hen or rooster had gray down as a chick influence what color chick will be produced when they are breed?

 

[paris_r]

i know blue ears are the target, and i have some with almost dark metallic and some with turquoise but what about blue on the face? odd thing is it is so brilliant blue on his face but his ears are light turquoise. his dad and brother do not have this. he is a partridge and is about 1.4 years old. i was going to sell him, but wondered if this trait was useful or even desirable. it obviously didnt contribute to his ear colour.

 

[NightOwl3]

I would like to focus on just black silkies. I understand that black to black = black. However I have 2 hens. 1 comes from a solid black to black pen. The other came from a mixed pen of both pure whites and pure blacks. (Pure meaning that the parents were a result of a black/black or white/white pen) the breeder out both of her colors together for the winter. My roo also came from that same white/black pen. He is all black with silver leakage. So because he has leakage, does that mean he is a result of 1 white and 1 black?

I want all blacks, how would I get back 100% black based on my current trio? Is it possible or should I get rid of the leakage roo and try to find a black/black roo? I hesitate to get rid of my current roo as he is really nice just has that darn leakage.

 

[paris_r]

I would like to focus on just black silkies. I understand that black to black = black. However I have 2 hens. 1 comes from a solid black to black pen. The other came from a mixed pen of both pure whites and pure blacks. (Pure meaning that the parents were a result of a black/black or white/white pen) the breeder out both of her colors together for the winter. My roo also came from that same white/black pen. He is all black with silver leakage. So because he has leakage, does that mean he is a result of 1 white and 1 black?

I want all blacks, how would I get back 100% black based on my current trio? Is it possible or should I get rid of the leakage roo and try to find a black/black roo? I hesitate to get rid of my current roo as he is really nice just has that darn leakage.

white is recessive in most silkies, so probably no worry there.silver leakage i am not sure about.

 

[NUGE]

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Sonoran Silkies, what do you look for in a partridge chick to tell gender? We just hatched our first partridge chick, and I'm excited to know more about this one...especially since I have no idea how we got this color. We are just backyard chicken enthusiast, and aren't concerned with maintaining color (we don't sell our chickens). We have a black and blue roosters, and buff, white, splash and black hens, although one black hen could possibly be grey. Anyway, this little one is a mystery, but would love to know what to look for to tell male from female.

 

[Austinspoultry]

Saving this thread. Will have 4 Blue chick's and 3 buff chick's soon!