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[Bunnylady]

Come on!

Not on this forum!

 

[chickwhispers]

 

[hennible]

 

[Wisher1000]

Okay, not to change the subject too quickly......

What will you get when you put a black Silkie cock over a white Silkie hen?

Guesses - half black Silkies, half white Silkies
NOT - gray Silkies, splash Silkies, or paint Silkies

Then, what will you get if you put a black Silkie cock over a white Show-Girl hen?

Guesses - black Show-Girls or white Show-Girls and black Silkies or white Silkies (Or is the naked neck dominant and they would be all Show-Girls?)

 

[chickwhispers]

I just saw a list of percentages on nn and silkies but cannot remember where. It did say nn is dominate though. I think. Sorry wisher.

 

[Wisher1000]

If you run across it again, let me know.

 

[Bunnylady]

Wisher - from what I understand, Silkies are usually recessive white. That means that a chicken has to have two copies of the white gene (ok, so the correct term is "allele") for the bird to be white. A black bird could be carrying a copy of recessive white, but it clearly doesn't have 2 copies, or it would be white. If your black bird is carrying recessive white, then some of the offspring could be white.That much is easy.

The tricky part is that you don't know what genes (other than recessive white) a white Silkie is carrying. They might have the genes to be black, blue, partridge, buff; you can't tell, because the white means that the birds have no pigment in their feathers. Breeding a white Silkie to a bird that isn't white means that at least some of the offspring will get something other than recessive white from that other-color parent, which will let them express whatever genes the white bird isn't expressing. In other words, they (theoretically) could be anything. Apparently, a lot depends on what the black is carrying, too - what you might get is black with leakage, or other less desirable versions of black.

 

[chickwhispers]

The post was 1121 of the 6th Annual BYC HAL. By Silkue Sensation. It had percentage hatch when breeding nn to silkies and others but not the color. But it may be helpful.

 

[Amberjem]

Gangstabator amberjem

thank you

 

[drumstick diva]

I'm probably wrong - I used to spend a lot of time on silkie and showgirl threads - BUT, I think they said you only need to cross to a turken(naked neck) once to get that feature,and from there on just breed to silkies and showgirls.