Silkie thread!

[Colie <3]

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Blue egg gene is dominant; silkie feathering is recessive. I've never see a furry egg, though

LOL! So how many of the chicks from the first cross will get the recessive gene for silkie feathering? I've heard that crossing a blue egger with a tan or cream egger makes them a shade of green as well.

 

[20123001]

here are some of the silkies that i jsut hatched a couple days ago! most of the m have really nice crests!

they are so cute!

 

[Tanichca]

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what beautiful bids!

 

[Colie <3]

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Aww they are adorable! Great pictures too! I'm running out to my truck to find my camera charger now I've gotta get some new shots of my chicks and my new babies, maybe get some advice on who to keep and who to sell since I need to start making decisions soon about my breeding pens.

 

[20123001]

Thanks guys!

 

[PamB]

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Not exactly sure what you mean? White in silkies is almost always recessive. Meaning that if two copies are present (c/c) the bird does not produce pigment in its plumage, resuting in white feathers. If there are not two copies of recessive white present ((C+/C+) or (C+/c)), whatever other colours are present will display.

C+ stands for coloured; c for not-coloured. C+ is not necessarily black; it can be any colour or pattern that is genetically present in the bird. c is an OFF switch that prevents the creation of feather pigment.

Genes are not dominant or recessive to other genes, only to other alleles (mutations/variations) of the SAME gene.

So, can you explain to me how I get these white chicks (sorry I don't have recent pics, but they are about 4 months old now and VERY white)

From these parents? I'm confused and hope you can teach me a bit.

Cockeral:

Pullet:

 

[Vanessabuffsnsilkies]

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Here is the first chick now...

My "accidental" project

Not trying to hijack the thread, was just out taking pics and though I would share the progression of the mystery chick.

 

[Colie <3]

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Not exactly sure what you mean? White in silkies is almost always recessive. Meaning that if two copies are present (c/c) the bird does not produce pigment in its plumage, resuting in white feathers. If there are not two copies of recessive white present ((C+/C+) or (C+/c)), whatever other colours are present will display.

C+ stands for coloured; c for not-coloured. C+ is not necessarily black; it can be any colour or pattern that is genetically present in the bird. c is an OFF switch that prevents the creation of feather pigment.

Genes are not dominant or recessive to other genes, only to other alleles (mutations/variations) of the SAME gene.

So, can you explain to me how I get these white chicks (sorry I don't have recent pics, but they are about 4 months old now and VERY white)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/63636_img_3402.jpg

From these parents? I'm confused and hope you can teach me a bit.

Cockeral:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/63636_taz.jpg

Pullet:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/63636_img_2913.jpg

Guess the cockerel carries the recessive white gene from one of his parents. Cool lol

 

[PamB]

Colie <3 :

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So, can you explain to me how I get these white chicks (sorry I don't have recent pics, but they are about 4 months old now and VERY white)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/63636_img_3402.jpg

From these parents? I'm confused and hope you can teach me a bit.

Cockeral:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/63636_taz.jpg

Pullet:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/63636_img_2913.jpg

Guess the cockerel carries the recessive white gene from one of his parents. Cool lol​

Okay, yea, because it was said above that if two copies are present, you will get a white silkie. Hmmm...interesting. So, this same cockeral and a splash had these babies, that I believe to be blues. If they are, then he must have that from a parent also? Or could it also be from one of her parents?

 

[Colie <3]

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Guess the cockerel carries the recessive white gene from one of his parents. Cool lol

Okay, yea, because it was said above that if two copies are present, you will get a white silkie. Hmmm...interesting. So, this same cockeral and a splash had these babies, that I believe to be blues. If they are, then he must have that from a parent also? Or could it also be from one of her parents?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/63636_img_3394.jpg

Not sure I'm tracking you on that one lol So the cockerel if a splash when bred to another splash he would make more splash those babies look kinda like a splash to me but hard to tell. Is is possible the hen was really a light blue? The cockerel could pass down his recessive white trait to his offspring but I'm not sure of what the ratio of that would be. I'm not sure if the Andalusian blue gene works like that to randomly present with blues from a splash x splash breeding. I just know that to get a splash you have to have two copies of it.