Silkie color question. Help!

[leighhancock]

What will I get if I put these together?
Splash silkie roo and a Black silkie hen??
Splash silkie roo and a White silkie hen??

 

[briarpatchfarms]

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[leighhancock]

Thank you so much!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Yes for the first case, no for the 2nd.

Breeding to a white is completely unpredictable unless you already have reliable data about the non-white background of the individual white bird or have non-white offspring from that individual bird, and can therefore extrapolate. Silkies carry recessive white. It is not very leaky--unless both parents supply a copy, offspring will NOT be white. Recessive white is an OFF switch that prevents the formation of pigment--genetically any colour or pattern genes can be present in the bird, and will NOT display because there is no pigment available. Excluding the recessive white genes, any two recessive white birds could have completely different genetic makeup in regards to plumage colour/pattern.

 

[Blue Ribbon Bantams]

i have hatched partridge and blue partridge hatch from whites before white is a hard color to raise theyre really is no telling what you will get

sonoran can you send me an email- [email protected] i have a question about partridge silkies

 

[briarpatchfarms]

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Yes for the first case, no for the 2nd.

Breeding to a white is completely unpredictable unless you already have reliable data about the non-white background of the individual white bird or have non-white offspring from that individual bird, and can therefore extrapolate. Silkies carry recessive white. It is not very leaky--unless both parents supply a copy, offspring will NOT be white. Recessive white is an OFF switch that prevents the formation of pigment--genetically any colour or pattern genes can be present in the bird, and will NOT display because there is no pigment available. Excluding the recessive white genes, any two recessive white birds could have completely different genetic makeup in regards to plumage colour/pattern.

I know a breeder that used a white to lighten there grays and came up with all white!

 

[Blue Ribbon Bantams]

i was reeaaly suprised when i got the blue partridge and the partridge the blue was a gal and she was georgous. i wish i still had her

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

White does not lighten colour--it is not a dilution gene. If the offspring of a white and a grey was another white, then the grey carries white. It is also possible to get whites from two non-whites if each carries one copy.

 

[leighhancock]

So ya'll are saying....
Putting the splash roo with a white hen.... theres no telling what color I'll get, right?
Wow...lol
And splash with black is %100 blue? Theres no chance at any other color?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Correct--unless both carry one copy of recessive white, in which case white is possible. Likewise, if both are split to lavender, you could get blue lavenders.