Silkie Genetics

[sunflowers074]

Sorry if this question has already been asked but how can I get blue, splash, and if there is a way to breed certain colors and get a grey? Thank you!

 

[LilJoe]

Im unsure about grey though... I once bred White × Black and got a grey with red leakage.

Good luck!

 

[sylviethecochin]

You can buy blue or splash birds and use the breeding chart above to get more...

Not sure what you mean by grey birds. Do you mean blue?

 

[sunflowers074]

Okay, thanks!

 

[sunflowers074]

I've heard there are grey silkies....

 

[LilJoe]

You can buy blue or splash birds and use the breeding chart above to get more...

Not sure what you mean by grey birds. Do you mean blue?

Grey is the same as silver partridge/pencil

 

[sylviethecochin]

Nope, no way to breed certain colors and get a grey unless you have a partridge bird and a bird with a silver gene. And then it would take at least three generations (depending on phenotype of silver bird) and a lot of guesswork on what bird has the genes you want to get a silver partridge

However, if you bought a silver partridge "grey" female and bred her to a partridge male, you'd get silver/gold male birds and gold partridge female birds.

Or you could do it the other way around and get female silver partridges and silver/gold male partridges (the males would mostly look silver, but their offspring might be gold.)