Silkies--Splash roo with buff hen?

[Shared Acres]

I have a buff hen that I was going to add to my blue/splash pen. I have one blue roo and one splash roo. I was planning on selling the blue roo as he isn't as friendly and toe feathering isn't as good as the splash.

I know that some people breed the blue to the buff. But what about splash?

Anyone have pics?

 

[shelleyd2008]

Splash is basically 'pure blue'. I'm not 100% sure on this, but I know I've seen some buff splashes, and I think that's how they get those?

 

[LilPeeps]

Breeding buff x splash isn't how "buff splash" is created. Breeding them will give you a smutty buff with blue replacing the black. It's this reason that some breed blue x buff. It doesn't improve the color at all, it just makes the black less noticeable. You shouldn't cross different varieties (excluding bbs) if you plan on keeping your colors pure.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

If you breed buff to blue, of the buff offspring about hlaf should receive a copy of the blue gene, which will dilute any black pigment in the feathers. About half will not, and black pigment will remain undiluted. If you use a splash instead of a blue, all buff offspring will have black diluted to blue.

Note that I qualified those statements to refer to the buff offspring. You will have some blue offspring and also some who are a mix of colours.