Silkied Ameraucana Project

[LBKS]

For now, this is my method of comparing egg colors. I need to order a color chart for better accuracy, especially for year over year comparison. One white sure seems to help how blue/green they are pop out in the mean time.

 

[mstricer]

Who lays the blue eggs

 

[mstricer]

Okay ? If I put the blue cockerel over the blue and black silkied and one smooth AM, do I get both varieties

 

[EdenCamp]

Only if the boy is a split.

 

[EdenCamp]

Genetics - readers digest version.

Most genes come in pairs. In basics, a gene can be dominant or recessive. Dominant means it overpowers recessive.
Sometimes totally, sometimes not. Dominant genes are shown in caps. Recessive in lower case. For example:
Black feather color gene is designated as a B, and it is paired. BB = black. Bb = blue. and bb = splash .
Remember, both the hen and the roo each contribute 1 of the genes in the gene pair to offspring.

So if the roo gene pair is B & B (black)

and is bred to a splash hen b Bb Bb

b Bb Bb

The genes contributed pair up so all the offspring are Bb (blue)

Silkied is recessive = ss
Non-silked is Dominant = SS
A split Ss, where the gene pair has one of each is going to show as (dominant) non-silkied but carry the silkied gene hidden.

So if both your roo and hen are "split" for silkied it's going to work out like this:

So if the roo gene pair is S & s (split for silkied)

and is bred to a split for silkied hen S SS Ss

s Ss ss

So it statisticly works out that out of 4 chicks 1 will be non-silkied, 1 will be silkied and 2 will be split for silkied.

Choc/mauve is sex linked which adds in another whole dimension to the thing. Males have a gene pair for chocolate.
Chocolate is recessive (c) not chocolate is dominant (C). So a male can be split for chocolate (Cc) but not show it.
Females tho only have a single gene for chocolate. They can't carry it - they simply are and show it - or aren't.

 

[LBKS]

Who lays the blue eggs

Haven't caught anyone in the act, but I suspect one of the blue splits.

 

[mstricer]

I was asking whether I would get Black and Blue chicks. I have a Silkied blue roo, a silkied blue hen, a black silkied hen and a smooth black hen all came from Kim

 

[CatKai]

Okay ? If I put the blue cockerel over the blue and black silkied and one smooth AM, do I get both varieties

Yes you can get both. Silkied x split = can get both silkied and split - all smooth will be splits. I have had silkied x split hatches be all silkied and a mix of both. Most of the time it was a mix of both.

silkied x silkied = silkied

silkied x split = silkied & split

silkied x smooth not split = all splits

split x split = silkied, split & smooth not split. Can't tell the splits from the smooth not splits unless test breeding.

 

[EdenCamp]

The question wasn't clear. But in any case the first part of genetics 101 answered the BBS Question. You should get all 3 colors.

 

[mstricer]

Thank you. I think my blue girl is blind in that eye