Silkie thread!

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My pleasure. If I can help more in this matter just ask.

just one more thing know how we were talking about the blacks and white what if the white had a dominant gene the chicks would be white right cause i still want to try this even tho i shouldn't
 
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My pleasure. If I can help more in this matter just ask.

just one more thing know how we were talking about the blacks and white what if the white had a dominant gene the chicks would be white right cause i still want to try this even tho i shouldn't​

Good question.
You have to know that Black Silkies have (normaly) a different ground-color (E/E) than white Silkies have (normaly) ground-color (eb/eb).
White Silkies are (normaly) recessive white (c/c => "c" stand for colorless) as you can see written with a little letter means need always a double doses to be visible.
The withe Silkies that have the Dominant white (I/I => "I" stand for Inhibitor of pigment) as you can see written with a Capital letter means need only a single doses to be visible (sometimes incomplete).

Now when you cross a Black (E/E i+/i+) X a Dominant White (E/E I/I) you will become 100% Dominant White (E/E I/i+) => 1 doses of Dominant white is enough to change all black-pigment into "white".

i+ means no Inhibitor of pigment.
 
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thank u so really if u know the silkies is dominate white there is no point breeding them to any color other then white

I believe the offspring from the dominant white would produce the other color when bred.

That's how it works with my plecos anyway. I've been breeding unique fish for several years.
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thank u so really if u know the silkies is dominate white there is no point breeding them to any color other then white

Not exactely.
Dominant white in double doses (I/I) is "complete" when the subjects are based on Silver (because Silver look for the human eye as white)
Dominant white (Inhibitor of pigment) is a relatively good inhibitor of black-pigment but a not so good inhibitor of red-pigment.
When Dominant white is in single doses (I/i+) it let pass about all red-pigment which result in very nice colorations as Pyle, Chamois, Jubilee ... along with "mystery" colorations as Paints, Bobtail, Exchequer ... along with a few mutations as Dun, Khaki, Smokey ... for not to speak of combinations with diluter genes as Blue, lavender.
Remember I spook of "fine tuning" knowledges ;-)​
 
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I believe the offspring from the dominant white would produce the other color when bred.

That's how it works with my plecos anyway. I've been breeding unique fish for several years.
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??!! fish are not birds as birds are not mammals !!??
 
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Not exactely.
Dominant white in double doses (I/I) is "complete" when the subjects are based on Silver (because Silver look for the human eye as white)
Dominant white (Inhibitor of pigment) is a relatively good inhibitor of black-pigment but a not so good inhibitor of red-pigment.
When Dominant white is in single doses (I/i+) it let pass about all red-pigment which result in very nice colorations as Pyle, Chamois, Jubilee ... along with "mystery" colorations as Paints, Bobtail, Exchequer ... along with a few mutations as Dun, Khaki, Smokey ... for not to speak of combinations with diluter genes as Blue, lavender.
Remember I spook of "fine tuning" knowledges ;-)

so u could get paint silkies o i love them
 
sager:)silkies :

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Not exactely.
Dominant white in double doses (I/I) is "complete" when the subjects are based on Silver (because Silver look for the human eye as white)
Dominant white (Inhibitor of pigment) is a relatively good inhibitor of black-pigment but a not so good inhibitor of red-pigment.
When Dominant white is in single doses (I/i+) it let pass about all red-pigment which result in very nice colorations as Pyle, Chamois, Jubilee ... along with "mystery" colorations as Paints, Bobtail, Exchequer ... along with a few mutations as Dun, Khaki, Smokey ... for not to speak of combinations with diluter genes as Blue, lavender.
Remember I spook of "fine tuning" knowledges ;-)

so u could get paint silkies o i love them​

Hold your horses ... this not go as simple as that.
To say it simple (but it is more complicated) for paints you need the gene I^P.
I wrote "paints" under "mystery" colorations.

You want to go from degree 6 directely to degree 1
 

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