Silkie thread!

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What you say actually makes more sense than white being involved especially given that her son is so clearly a splash. She does have a bluish head. I still have the female but I don't have any partridge birds at all so I can't try your experiment. (I'm a blue/black/splash (B/B/S) girl
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What you say actually makes more sense than white being involved especially given that her son is so clearly a splash. She does have a bluish head. I still have the female but I don't have any partridge birds at all so I can't try your experiment. (I'm a blue/black/splash (B/B/S) girl
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Do you have Black copper ?
If Splash (Bl/Bl) X Black copper (bl+/bl+) = all chicks will be Bl/bl+ = Blue copper
If heterozygous Domiant white (I/i+) X Black copper (i+/i+) 50% of the chicks will be Black copper and 50% will be White goldnecks
 
Good raw base summary that still need some fine tuning.
It's not my place to make comments but maybe I can clear a thing or two.
-albino and recessive white are two different things. Albino have no pigment at all (example they have red eyes) . Recessive white have pigment (see your white Silkies having dark skin and eyes)
-recessive white .... "because it acts dominant". Here is intended recessive white act "epistatic" over other color-genes.

Sorry, I do tend to call the white c/c albino because that is what it is in my rabbits --- which I learned first. Kind of like learning a new language, you tend to translate the newest into the 2nd language you learned first. I don't know why.
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I DO have a Black copper cockerel!! That's an excellent idea - and more olive eggers from the cross too!!!!!
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Et voila, with a little help we can solve everything.
Put your mystery hen a few days separated from cocks, than put her together with your Black copper cockerel for a few days, collect 10 eggs and hatch them and the mystery will be solved ;-)
 
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Sorry, I do tend to call the white c/c albino because that is what it is in my rabbits --- which I learned first. Kind of like learning a new language, you tend to translate the newest into the 2nd language you learned first. I don't know why.
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Did you know there is also a sex-linked imperfect albinisme "s^al" ? It is on the S-locus (as Silver "S" and gold "s+")
 
The pairing of my Splash cockerel and dark Blue pullet.... today's chick (so far I have only hatched Splash!)

This is Blue, right?? I know, it's not fully fluffed yet. I stuck it back in the incubator to get fluffed.
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