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So...I'm still madly in love with your broody and that chickie is PRECIOUS!! Judging from the last couple of pix, could s/he be in danger of being ridiculously spoiled? I hope so!
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Hawkeye95 said:
Okay, Day 2 for my new chick... here's some pictures of fluffy baby goodness! hehehe!

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And then I took a couple of really silly ones.... sorry, I couldn't help myself! LOL I promise... no one was harmed in the making of these pictures!
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can anyone give me the breeding color chart for all the colors for ex. bluexblue=25%black,50%blue,25%splash


can you give me all the colors including white? i found the blue color gene a few pages back and now need the white (so basically all the color genes)
thanks in advance,
silkielover1731
 
yoie said:
Ok, I need some help. I am starting a flock of silkies, I am really wanting to focus on BBS. I have 1 Splash, 2 Black, 1 Possible Blue, 1 Mystery Color and a few other random colors. I know if I want to focus on BBS I should just stick with those colors but at the same time the other colors are soooo pretty too. But I need a little help figuring out what some of my colors are. Also they are not for show, but maybe one day it would be fun to do. Thanks for any help!

Splash (hoping that it is a girl
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Mystery Color (thought it was a splash as a chick but has orangy color to it, really love its color though)


Black (my only nonbearded)


My other Black (bearded)


Blue? Very light color, but has awesome feathered feet!


The next two look very similar, they hatched with the Blue? one, thought they were partridge but feathering in funny. They both are vaulted, but they have very dark green skin? Should I just not bother with them?




And lastly I have one Grey? Has the best foot feathering of them all, even the little toes have feathering!
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Love the color of your mystery chick! Green skin huh? That's a new one for me.
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silkielover1731 said:
can anyone give me the breeding color chart for all the colors for ex. bluexblue=25%black,50%blue,25%splash


can you give me all the colors including white? i found the blue color gene a few pages back and now need the white (so basically all the color genes)
thanks in advance,
silkielover1731
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Entire books are written to answer the question you are posing above!! You start with one of 5 e-alleles (extended black, birchen, duckwing, brown, wheaten), then you can add or not silver or gold. Then you can apply a uniform colour changing gene like blue, white (dominant or recessive), lavender, dun, cream, champagne blond, etc. Then there are the colour distribution genes like columbian, mahogany, dilute, melanotic, etc. And finally, you have pattern genes (pattern, cuckoo/barred, mottled.) So as you can see, the combinations and possibilities are virtually limitless.

The other colours don't tend to work like blue. Blue is diluted black. A bird that appears blue carries one copy of the Bl gene (Bl/bl+). Splash is two copies of the Bl gene (Bl/Bl) - true blue. Black is injected back into a blue breeding program when the blue starts to fade. Blue is injected back into splash to keep the spots showing.

White can be dominant (white leghorns), recessive (in Silkies), or due to pigment interuption (cuckoo/barring). With recessive white (Silkies), white has to be bred to white to come up white usually - unless the other bird happens to be hiding recessive white and you get lucky. White can also be hiding unpredicable stuff that will show up when you introduce another colour.

Mixing colours other than blue is often unpredictable and depends entirely on what you are throwing into the mix.
 
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