silkie question...???...need answer

[monita]

What color chicks will you get from partridge roo topping white hens?

 

[monita]

Anyone?

 

[CrestedHorizonPoultry]

I believe they will be partridge.

 

[monita]

Thanks for the answer .... that is what I figured but was hoping that I could get a mix. Guess ill have to find a white roo

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Fair chance, but the could be just about anything; likely a mess.

 

[monita]

a mess would be cool.... just one time though. I have a pair of partridge but my pullet is still too young to lay.... i think!!!! She hatched out on 11/27/09 or 11/28/09. Is she still too young???? She is still really tiny..... oh i don't know....lol.

 

[Keri78]

I LOVE mixing white with Part.!!!

I know it's not the "Proper" thing to do and all but I LOVE the "Calico" babies that it can produce!!! VERY COOL! I know I know..."Calico" means Buff & Blue(or something like that)...but to me when I think of Calico...I think of white being in the mix...like a Calico cat!

Anywho....VERY cool babies!!!

 

[LilPeeps]

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The "calico" color most often refers to a grey bird with a significant amount of rust in the feathering. You cannot be totally certain what breeding a non-white to a white will produce, since the white can be masking any number of genes.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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That is pretty much unlikely to happen. White in silkies is almost always recessive white, which is not very leaky: you will have an all white bird, or a bird that is NOT white. For a partially white bird you need dominant white. (or barring or mottling)

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

The two common phenotypes for calico are splash showing rust (original use of the term for silkies) and grey showing rust. I've also seen the greys showing rust referred to as tortoise or tortoise--shell.