Silkie egg color: recessive or dominate

[Elana DeBolt]

Ok so I've been reading and I'm a little confused.... If I breed an ameracauna (B/B) to a silkie (?/?) the blue egg color will come down and I'd have EE's right? Carrying at lest one Blue gene (b/?) so does that mean that the silkie cream color is recessive? Or do egg color gene not work like that? I know brown and blue over lap white, so does that mean its not simply recessive or dominate, they will over lap? If this is so, and i do mix the two, and I have (B/?), thats an F1. But if i breed and F1 to another F1, will I keep the blue gene and get a 25% chance of silkie fluff right? With blue egg?

The goal is a fluffy silkie body, but blue eggs. Thoughts? Has anyone tried this recently?

My struggle is keeping the blue egg gene while also bringing back in that silkie gene to make then fluffy, but if I re-breed to a 100% silkie I would be diluting the blue color.

 

[luckiestck1]

Im not sure if its resessive or dominate but if it was me I would breed the f1s together before bringing in new blood. I would pick the hens that lay blue eggs that preferably look the most like silkie and breed with one of there brothers. As for the silkie feathers gene if 1 of there parents is a silkie that is has the silkied feathers than all of the babies will carry the gene, just not display it. While it is not ideal to breed brother to sister but it would be your best chance to get what you want easier. Than bring some new blood to breed to your f2's. it pretty much repeating these two options. You could try bring in new blood every generation but you might find you will lose the blue egg gene over time. I'm hoping to add the blue gene to my mottled silkie project in the future. Let me know how your project to going in the future.

 

[Christianson97]

Are there good resources out there for learning about the ins and outs if breeding stock? We wanted to see what we would get looks like if we hatched the eggs from our Ameraucana girls and our silkie roo. We’ve got 1 chick right now. Can’t tell whether male or female yet. Now I want to learn more about breeding other birds.