Silkie thread!

[ChickNmamma]

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Its not a Splash unless your birds are both dark Blue instead of Black. You can't get Splash from Black x Black. I would guess your Blacks have something else in there, will be interesting to see what it looks like when it grows up. Are all the eggs from the same hen? If you have other donating hens then you won't know which one has the odd genes - but you can bet your rooster does. Whatever it is, its a recessive gene and both the mother and father have it, and so do some of the other chicks too.... Keep us updated - I love mystery genetics!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: IMO, it smells like very strong turpentine

 

[jajeanpierre]

Forgot to add, splash to splash (BB x BB) produces 100% splash (BB).

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Over the years I have lost far too many in our pool. While they can float for a period of time, they do not always paddle to the edge, and sometimes they immediately panic and flap so much that they drown almost instantly

 

[masked rider]

Splash is a double copy of the blue gene (B). It is not the lavender/self blue gene, though--that's a different gene altogether.

Splash takes two copies of that gene. Splash (BB) is produced from two blue parents (Bb x Bb) or a splash and a blue parent (BB x Bb). You won't get splash from a black bird (bb). When breeding blue to blue (Bb x Bb), 25% should be splash (BB), 25% black (bb) and 50% blue (Bb). When breeding splash to blue (BB x Bb), half will be splash (BB) and half will be blue (Bb).

There is different genetics for down color and adult plumage color.

Hi, so what do you think at this point.. For sure not black..???

 

[kabhyper1]

I'm bumping these since this thread is busy tonight. More concerned about the respiratory stuff if someone can help me out.

 

[masked rider]

Its not a Splash unless your birds are both dark Blue instead of Black. You can't get Splash from Black x Black. I would guess your Blacks have something else in there, will be interesting to see what it looks like when it grows up. Are all the eggs from the same hen? If you have other donating hens then you won't know which one has the odd genes - but you can bet your rooster does. Whatever it is, its a recessive gene and both the mother and father have it, and so do some of the other chicks too.... Keep us updated - I love mystery genetics!

Hi - well that is the interesting part of the puzzle... Roo is Paid for 100% black (as sure as one can be on a deal like that), so I am pretty sure he is pure black... Hen (2) histories are unknown. I have two hens, both show black, so it is a genetic puzzle for sure. Maybe one is dark blue....hmmm... now you have me curious.. She is not as black as the roo, but I never considered her dark blue..

Either way, silkies are fun and great to have around.

It is also interesting that only 1 out of 9 showed this color.

Anyone have a photo of a known Dark Blue bird?

 

[kabhyper1]

Hi - well that is the interesting part of the puzzle... Roo is Paid for 100% black (as sure as one can be on a deal like that), so I am pretty sure he is pure black... Hen (2) histories are unknown. I have two hens, both show black, so it is a genetic puzzle for sure. Maybe one is dark blue....hmmm... now you have me curious.. She is not as black as the roo, but I never considered her dark blue..

Either way, silkies are fun and great to have around.

It is also interesting that only 1 out of 9 showed this color.

Anyone have a photo of a known Dark Blue bird?

This is Booker my roo.

 

[kimmerjo]

what color would this bird be?? I have two like this.

 

[masked rider]

This is Booker my roo.

Is he blue?