What's wrong with their feathers?

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Ok..here's a genetics pop quiz!!!
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If the silky gene is recessive and you breed a silky feathered Ameraucana to a smooth feathered bird what is the percentage of silky feathered babies? Is it going to be 50% like when breeding frizzles(smooth to frizzle)??? And I found an old post from someone that had an ooops! happen and she ended up with silky and Ameraucana cross but they were FLUFFY but not SILKY. Soooo if you bred one of these crosses(that carried the recessive silky gene) to another carrying the same recessive silky gene would you ever produce a full fledged silky feathered bird? But I guess having a "smooth feathered...I call Fluffy) silky Ameraucana mix bird and breeding that bird to a silky feathered Ameraucana would increase your % of getting silky feathered birds??? WOW!!! I feel confused and tounge tied all of a sudden!
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If these work the same as other silkie feathered birds, the initial cross to a smooth feathered bird would give you 100% smooth feathered birds that are split for silkie feathers.

Crossing siblings from this cross would give you 25% silkie feathered birds, 50% split for silkie (smooth feathered), and 25% "pure" smooth feathered birds.

If you cross a split with a silkie feathered bird, you would expect 50% silkied and 50% split.

This is going to be fun for everyone!
 

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