what traits would be dominant?

silkiemother

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If one bred a black silkie rooster with some traces of gold and a beard,earmuffs, and really fluffy feet to a white silkie hen with small feathered feet,no beard and no earmuffs, what traits would end up dominant? Would the gold coloring become dominant?
 
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If one bred a black silkie rooster with some traces of gold and a beard,earmuffs, and really fluffy feet to a white silkie hen with small feathered feet,no beard and no earmuffs, what traits would end of dominant?

Beard is dominant so if you rooster has a beard, the chicks would have a partial beard.

I bred a rooster with very fluffy feet to a hen with not fluffy feet and the babies all had very fluffy feet so I would say that I dominant as well!

The chicks will be black, hiding the recessive white gene.
 
see, the reason why I am asking is because the chicks are golden, with a little bit of black and red and white.and the beard being dominant makes sense.
 
see, the reason why I am asking is because the chicks are golden, with a little bit of black and red and white.and the beard being dominant makes sense.
Do you have some photos of the parents and chicks?

Your hen is probably a partridge based white, so the chicks would then be black with red leakage carrying the recessive white gene which might make sense if you have any pictures of the babies! But if they are golden you stumped me!
 
Sounds like the white in your Silkie hen is “hiding” partridge.
The chicks are probably black with gold leakage. At least 50 percent will have small beards.
 

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