Sonoran and Silkie genetics gurus

[robin416]

I want you to see what is happening. Remember Suze the first generation of this color was not as intense and that these boys are coming from my whites. They are always boys and can be sexed at hatch. It appears that using the boys with the gray/mauve color in the tail causes it to become more intense with each breeding.

This is out of the boy with just the mauve showing up in the tail.

The white pullet in the pic is a good comparison of how much color there is in this white bird.

It can't be the double silver gene. In one light they are gray, in sunlight you see mauve. They are definitely not lavender. I have a black girl with one of the boys who is just now maturing to see what happens with that match up.

 

[bacres]

That's a super cool color! It looks like what we would call a frosted in rabbit. It looks to be a color that has ticking or tipping lie it looks like washed out.

 

[CrestedHorizonPoultry]

Hey Robin~

Are you sure there isn't any lav in there?

 

[robin416]

Yep, I've got lavenders and its nothing like that. Suze and I have talked about this back and forth for a while now. The first boy had most of the color molt out and just showed a hint in the tail. Then with each generation the color seems to be spreading to cover the entire bird.

This is him with white pullet in the middle and the lavender pullet on the far end.

 

[bacres]

Maybe sometype of porcelin type coloring starting?

 

[robin416]

I don't think so. I think this might be the same reason everyone says don't cross colors. This might be something that is buried deep in the genetics of my white birds that is coming out. Even though the hen was no relation to the roo in the last breeding it seemed to have pulled the color out even more.

 

[bacres]

What the parents colors again? They say don't breed white with colors becuase white has been bred with white for a while! Then also you don't know wht color is in the background of the white so it could through all sorts of colors! I know with rabbits it is bad sometimes to breed white to colors becuas the them having other colors underneath. Maybe thts the reason?

 

[robin416]

The parents are white. This goes way back with my original white birds.

That's why I need some of the genetics folks to have a look see. Something is going on and I sure as heck don't understand it.

BTW, that pullet is his sister.

 

[bacres]

Personally I would not keep repeating tht breeding if you at getting wired colors. Also I would cull all the odd colors.

 

[becky3086]

Humm, seems like I have heard of people making that mistake before--culling out a color that they wish they hadn't