Silkie colors

[Meme k]

I have a cuckoo silkie roo if I breed him with a black silkie hen what colors will I get also if I breed him with a white silkie roo trying to see what I need to mix to get what colors I have the following

Roos
Cuckoo
Black
White
Hens
White
Black
Blue
Lavender

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

@LynnaePB ? @LadiesAndJane ? might be able to help you with Silkie colours. There are lots of people on here that know about colours so hopefully you should get an answer soon.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I have a cuckoo silkie roo if I breed him with a black silkie hen what colors will I get also if I breed him with a white silkie roo trying to see what I need to mix to get what colors I have the following

Roos
Cuckoo
Black
White
Hens
White
Black
Blue
Lavender

Good morning! (here where I am anyway) and welcome to BYC!
You will end up up with A LOT of black chicks with most of these crosses. Some barred, but no sex links with your cuckoo being the male.
These are straight up calculations not taking into account what may be "hiding" under your white birds which I am going to assume are recessive white.
Cuckoo roo over white hen: black barred chicks
Cuckoo roo over black hen: black barred chicks
Cuckoo roo over blue hen: 50% black barred and 50% blue barred
Cuckoo roo over lavender hen: black barred chicks that carry the lavender gene.
The rest of the crosses do not matter which is the roo and which is the hen:
black x black: all black
black x white: all black
black x lavender: all black
black x blue: 50% black and 50% blue
white x blue: 50% black and 50% blue.
white x white: white
You may get a random partridge colored chick as this is often recessive in silkies.
Lavender is dilute of black and acts as black with any other cross other than another lavender colored bird.
Good luck!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

@LynnaePB ? @LadiesAndJane ? might be able to help you with Silkie colours. There are lots of people on here that know about colours so hopefully you should get an answer soon.

Thanks for the tag!

 

[Meme k]

Good morning! (here where I am anyway) and welcome to BYC!
You will end up up with A LOT of black chicks with most of these crosses. Some barred, but no sex links with your cuckoo being the male.
These are straight up calculations not taking into account what may be "hiding" under your white birds which I am going to assume are recessive white.
Cuckoo roo over white hen: black barred chicks
Cuckoo roo over black hen: black barred chicks
Cuckoo roo over blue hen: 50% black barred and 50% blue barred
Cuckoo roo over lavender hen: black barred chicks that carry the lavender gene.
The rest of the crosses do not matter which is the roo and which is the hen:
black x black: all black
black x white: all black
black x lavender: all black
black x blue: 50% black and 50% blue
white x blue: 50% black and 50% blue.
white x white: white
You may get a random partridge colored chick as this is often recessive in silkies.
Lavender is dilute of black and acts as black with any other cross other than another lavender colored bird.
Good luck!

Thank you so much for the reply . Can you tell me where paint , splash and buff come from ?

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

if I breed him with a white silkie roo

If you breed a roo with a roo you'll get nothing except maybe some awkward glances from any bystanders.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Thank you so much for the reply . Can you tell me where paint , splash and buff come from ?

You are welcome.
Paint is dominant white crossed with black. Most silkies are recessive white.
No way to know if your white is dominant white or recessive white without doing test breeding, unless you were told what they were when you got them.
Buff is it's own color and you can only get with buff x buff.
Splash is part of blue, black, splash genetics (BBS). These are colors you can breed together and get true colors:

 

[LadiesAndJane]

An example of a dominant white bird is a white leghorn.
When you cross a white leghorn with an autralorp, you get a hybrid called a autrawhite, which demonstrates nicely how paints are created. You get a white bird with black flecks.

 

[LynnaePB]

It looks like @LadiesAndJane already covered things really well! Sounds like you've got some interesting varieties to try breeding!

Oh and welcome to BYC!

 

[Meme k]

If you breed a roo with a roo you'll get nothing except maybe some awkward glances from any bystanders.

I just caught my miss type lol yeah if I did get something I would be rich lol