What silkie colors will I get?

CaramelKittey

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Feb 15, 2019
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Hi all! I was recently gifted a white silkie rooster, black silkie hen, and a gray (Maybe partridge..) silkie hen. I plan on breeding the black and gray hen to the white rooster, but I am unsure of the colors I will get from the breeding! All I was told was that the white rooster and gray hen had gorgeous babies together, but I was shown no pictures.
Here are my questions:
1. Is Star (The gray, or partridge?) silkie, a gray, or patridge silkie?
2. If I breed Po, (The white rooster) to Ebony, (The black hen) what color offspring will they have?
3. If I breed Po to Star, what color offspring will they have?
Pictures below :)


Po
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Star Star.jpg

Ebony Ebony.jpg

Thank you so much in advance for any and all help given! I really appreciate it!
 
1. Star looks like a blue partridge Silkie. Or she may be a blue with partridge leakage.
2. White is complicated and is normally caused by dominant or recessive white. Your outcome depends upon whether Po is a dominant or recessive white. If Po is dominant white, they will produce paints. If he is recessive white, he could produce any number of colors. Since he’s being crossed with a black chicken, he will probably produce blacks or blacks with leakage, but he might produce blues too.
3. Basically the same as with Ebony, but more liable to have leakage.
 
1. Star looks like a blue partridge Silkie. Or she may be a blue with partridge leakage.
2. White is complicated and is normally caused by dominant or recessive white. Your outcome depends upon whether Po is a dominant or recessive white. If Po is dominant white, they will produce paints. If he is recessive white, he could produce any number of colors. Since he’s being crossed with a black chicken, he will probably produce blacks or blacks with leakage, but he might produce blues too.
3. Basically the same as with Ebony, but more liable to have leakage.
Thank you so much! This is exactly what I needed to know. :)
We will try to breed them and see what we will get. I honestly don't know if I want Po's white genes to be dominant or recessive. ;)
 

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