Silkie outcome possibilities

Cierrascoop

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Im acquiring a red silkie rooster this week. He's a beautiful red with a black tipped tail. If all goes well I intend to hopefully have some chicks this spring and summer.
As far as my silkie girls go, I have a chocolate hen and a black/silver partridge hen.
What would the chick color possiblities likely consist of?
I also keep seeing a lot of talk about some chick colors being linked to sexes with silkies, which I never knew was a thing outside of sex-links. Would there be any sex linked colors in either of these combinations? Just trying to learn a thing or two 😁🧠
Thanks 😊
 
Redxchocolate would make red and black cockerels carrying chocolate and red and black pullets, but you won’t be able to visually see that the cockerels are carrying the sexlinked chocolate gene.
In theory, you would produce golden (gold silver heterozygous cockerels and gold pullets for the second cross but they have red and extra black so I don’t know how that would express. But maybe they would be sexlinked, I don’t know.
 

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