What should I cross ??

[sloallie10]

If you crosss anything with the laced it probably wont have good lacing at all because your lacing on your birds is awful
no offence.

 

[RAREROO]

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No Not all of them arent, White Silkies can be masking any of the silkie colors and there is no way to know which unless you breed them first or know their history. In general, stay away from recessive white breeds when wanting to make sexlinks, you never know what they are masking.

 

[silkydragon]

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No Not all of them arent, White Silkies can be masking any of the silkie colors and there is no way to know which unless you breed them first or know their history. In general, stay away from recessive white breeds when wanting to make sexlinks, you never know what they are masking.

......so can you actually breed white silkies or will the chicks be different colors?

 

[phasianidae]

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No Not all of them arent, White Silkies can be masking any of the silkie colors and there is no way to know which unless you breed them first or know their history. In general, stay away from recessive white breeds when wanting to make sexlinks, you never know what they are masking.

......so can you actually breed white silkies or will the chicks be different colors?

no if you breed pure white silkies you will get all white birds.

 

[RAREROO]

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No Not all of them arent, White Silkies can be masking any of the silkie colors and there is no way to know which unless you breed them first or know their history. In general, stay away from recessive white breeds when wanting to make sexlinks, you never know what they are masking.

......so can you actually breed white silkies or will the chicks be different colors?

White in Silkies and in most solid White breeds is Recessive White and like all Recessive genes, when you have two copies for the gene to be visually present the bird is homozygous for the gene and will breed true. So breeding Rec White to Rec White SHOULD give all White birds. I stress the SHOULD becuase I have seen other members here with off colors from White to White Silkie breedings, so from what I have seen Silkies can sometimes be exceptions to the rule with all their jumbled genes, but in general, thats wow it works.

Its the crossing Rec White with other colors that can get unpredictable.