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Silkie feathering is recessive, so you would need to breed them to each other or back to a silkie to get silkied feathering. Silkies carry the rosecomb gene, so getting a rosecomb is no surprise. Either your gold laced wyandotte is split, or the silkie carries silver. You don't say which was sire or hen, but the hen only carries one copy, so if silver came from the hen, the silver offspring is male.
Bennie was the sire, white Dom- silkie - he's phenotype is white- 5 well spaces toes each foot, crooked spurs, black skin... his genotype is dominate white
Henny Penny was the hen, she's GLW from a breeder (but not a quality breeder).
Here's what I learned from ONE clutch of eggs that I crossed.
I have a silkie roo crossed to both a RIR and a GLW - all of his offspring are mutts all but one got right foot 5 toes, left foot 4 toes, all the GLW are bantum sized and the RIR are LF...
Now If he had proper feathers (he doesn't) I would have to check his possible mates to make sure they give 5 toes on the left feet- then I could nearly ensure 5 toes each foot.
If I wanted to breed silkies...
I don't think you can show a four toed silkie.
So I learned from my cross:
My roo carries 4 toed gene for the right foot,
My GLW carries the gene for bantam
My roo carries black under his dominant white
My RIR gold (red) leaks on males but does not leak as much on females weather black or white base feathering. ((this surprised me I thought it would be the other way))
My roo only carries one black skin gene as I had two born with white skin.
My roo only carries one tufted gene as not everyone is tufted.
My roo caries the vaulted skull gene
My roo only carries one foot feather gene OR foot feather is recessive and one of the girls has it also
I guess my silkie is a silkie/sultan cross from what I see.
OR
Some of these things are listed as dominate but are co dominate or have multiple genes controlling them...
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This is the only gold (GLW cross)
there is a female that looks just like him but black skin and 5 toes (RIR cross)
pretty boy (RIR cross)
there are three total like this one and the one below... (GLW cross)
this one has a twin that looks just like him/her (GLW cross)
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(Dad)
Silkie feathering is recessive, so you would need to breed them to each other or back to a silkie to get silkied feathering. Silkies carry the rosecomb gene, so getting a rosecomb is no surprise. Either your gold laced wyandotte is split, or the silkie carries silver. You don't say which was sire or hen, but the hen only carries one copy, so if silver came from the hen, the silver offspring is male.
Bennie was the sire, white Dom- silkie - he's phenotype is white- 5 well spaces toes each foot, crooked spurs, black skin... his genotype is dominate white
Henny Penny was the hen, she's GLW from a breeder (but not a quality breeder).
Here's what I learned from ONE clutch of eggs that I crossed.
I have a silkie roo crossed to both a RIR and a GLW - all of his offspring are mutts all but one got right foot 5 toes, left foot 4 toes, all the GLW are bantum sized and the RIR are LF...
Now If he had proper feathers (he doesn't) I would have to check his possible mates to make sure they give 5 toes on the left feet- then I could nearly ensure 5 toes each foot.
If I wanted to breed silkies...
I don't think you can show a four toed silkie.
So I learned from my cross:
My roo carries 4 toed gene for the right foot,
My GLW carries the gene for bantam
My roo carries black under his dominant white
My RIR gold (red) leaks on males but does not leak as much on females weather black or white base feathering. ((this surprised me I thought it would be the other way))
My roo only carries one black skin gene as I had two born with white skin.
My roo only carries one tufted gene as not everyone is tufted.
My roo caries the vaulted skull gene
My roo only carries one foot feather gene OR foot feather is recessive and one of the girls has it also
I guess my silkie is a silkie/sultan cross from what I see.
OR
Some of these things are listed as dominate but are co dominate or have multiple genes controlling them...
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This is the only gold (GLW cross)
there is a female that looks just like him but black skin and 5 toes (RIR cross)
pretty boy (RIR cross)
there are three total like this one and the one below... (GLW cross)
this one has a twin that looks just like him/her (GLW cross)
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(Dad)
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