What color will the chicks be from my White Silkie Hen and Black Silkie Rooster?

[Donaline]

My Silkie hen laid her first egg today! I wanted to find out if it would be possible to guess the colors of their offspring?

Drogon the rooster is black but has white in his neck and a little in his legs, he’s not a full black. Syrax the hen is a full white.

I bought these guys off FB so I don’t have any of their genetic history, FYI.

 

[ChickQueen77]

not 100% sure and I don't know that much about colors but it might be either a white or splash

 

[SnackMeat]

You might find this interesting:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/breeding-a-black-and-white-silkie.372761/

But if you read and scroll down to the pairing chart, looks like splash and black.

https://vjppoultry.com/tag/silkie-color-genetics/

 

[The Moonshiner]

You'll just have to breed them and see.
The white should be recessive white so it can have any number of genes not showing. Recessive white hides everything.
The rooster has leakage so its apparent he has unknown genes lurking underneath. Too many unknowns to predict their offspring.
They won't produce splash though for sure. Needs a blue gene from each parent to be splash and the rooster doesn't have a blue gene.

 

[SnackMeat]

Yeah, sorry. I didn't even look at the picture. Would that rooster be considered a partridge because that's a crazy amount of leakage.

 

[Ridgerunner]

You'll just have to breed them and see.
The white should be recessive white so it can have any number of genes not showing. Recessive white hides everything.
The rooster has leakage so its apparent he has unknown genes lurking underneath. Too many unknowns to predict their offspring.
They won't produce splash though for sure. Needs a blue gene from each parent to be splash and the rooster doesn't have a blue gene.

The white could be recessive white since recessive white hides everything and that looks like a solid white, but you can get a solid white from dominant white if the stars align. Black is pretty dominant so you could have about anything hiding under that.

Bottom line is a lot of different genetics could be hiding under either chicken's color. I'd expect different colors and patterns to show up if you cross them due to the random nature of genetics. You just do not know what will match up.