splash?

[dinahmoe]

ok if this already has a thread can you link it.thanks

question

what is a splash?
how do you get a splash?
what do you breed to a splash?
does it occur in any breed?
what colors can they be?- i have seen the white with scattered blk/blue feathers and then the splash wyandottes.so is it majority white with other colors or are there patterns?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Splash is the homozygous state (two copies) of the blue gene. Breed splash to splash for 100% splash, splash to blue for 50% splash or blue to blue for 25% splash. It occurs in all breeds that have the blue gene.

 

[rarebreedeggs4u]

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What will you get with Splash to black ? Two of my Silkie hens are black and the roo is Splash

 

[hinkjc]

Splash X Black = 100% Blue

 

[dinahmoe]

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what do you get with splash and barred?

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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what do you get with splash and barred?

Here's a really cool online genetics calculator...

http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

Looks like blue females and barred blue males

 

[muddyhorse]

How would you get barred females ? I have a black roo and two barred (cuckoo) roos in my BBS silkie pen. the cuckoos decided they were boys this week. I don't mind I wanted another roo or two to improve fertility. Of course the combs aren't very dark but the females have dark combs

 

[muddyhorse]

How would you get barred females ? I have a black roo and two barred (cuckoo) roos in my BBS silkie pen. the cuckoos decided they were boys this week. I don't mind I wanted another roo or two to improve fertility. Of course the combs aren't very dark but the females have dark combs

 

[Goose and Fig]

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I think you have to have barred x barred to get barred females. Don't quote me on that.

 

[pinkchick]

Using the barred/cuckoo roo should give you all barred babies both male and female in the F1 offspring, but the roos produced from this cross will be heterozygous (one copy of the barring gene). Breed het. roo back to a barred/cuckoo female and you would get all barred offspring. Breeding the het. roo back to a solid hen, one half of the offspring both male and female will carry the barred/cuckoo gene the other half will be solid.
If you don't have a cuckoo female you can breed the females of this F1 cross back to the cuckoo roos and get all barred babies.

If you used a solid roo over a cuckoo hen only the male offspring would be barred as a barred female can only contribute the barring gene to her male offspring.

I believe cuckoo birds are genetically black birds, so with that being said:

Black x Splash = 100 % blue (Cuckoo roo x splash hen = all blue barred offspring, males being heterozygous)
Black x Blue = 50% blue, 50% black (Cuckoo roo x blue hen= half black barred offspring and half blue barred offspring, males being het.)
Black x Black= 100 % black (Cuckoo roo x black hen= all black barred offspring, males being het.)

If I have made a mistake.....please someone correct me.

Hope this helps!