White and Paint Silkie crossing!???

[Featherheart]

Hi everyone! I'm curious to see if anyone knows what offspring I'd get if I crossed a Paint silkie rooster with a white silkie hen???

 

[Willawong Hill]

If your white is a dominant white it will be half white, half paint. It's more likely that your white is recessive (unless it's from a paint pen) in which case the answer could be pretty much any colour.

 

[The Moonshiner]

If the hen is recessive white you'll get an average of 50% paint and 50% black. But there's a good chance both may also end up with leakage since a lot of recessive white carry partridge.
Also an off chance they may have blue genes involved.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Hi everyone! I'm curious to see if anyone knows what offspring I'd get if I crossed a Paint silkie rooster with a white silkie hen???

Curious if you made this cross and what the chicks ended up looking like.

 

[Pandang81]

If the hen is recessive white you'll get an average of 50% paint and 50% black. But there's a good chance both may also end up with leakage since a lot of recessive white carry partridge.
Also an off chance they may have blue genes involved.

I know this post is old. But are whites that hatch from a paint pen all dominant whites?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I know this post is old. But are whites that hatch from a paint pen all dominant whites?

Yes, unless both parents are carriers of recessive white.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Quick question, how do you know if either or both parents are recessive white or dominant white? Sorry still trying to learn Silkie genetics. I’m trying a make my own line of paint, white, and black show girls. I’m breeding my bantam paint Nn hen to my White Silkie rooster. Also will any other colors pop up when I breed my white silkies if one or both are recessive white? Thanks

 

[Debbie292d]

Quick question, how do you know if either or both parents are recessive white or dominant white? Sorry still trying to learn Silkie genetics. I’m trying a make my own line of paint, white, and black show girls. I’m breeding my bantam paint Nn hen to my White Silkie rooster. Also will any other colors pop up when I breed my white silkies if one or both are recessive white? Thanks

I hate reviving old threads, especially in this case since the OP hasn't been on in three years, but I was researching this myself and saw nobody ever answered you. Did you ever get your answer or hatch any of their eggs to see?

Yesterday, I paired a white rooster with a paint hen, and my expectations are to perhaps get a few paints, a few partridge, a few white, and a few who knows what. I won't know for a month though as I'm saving their eggs for a week to set with other ones.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

I hate reviving old threads, especially in this case since the OP hasn't been on in three years, but I was researching this myself and saw nobody ever answered you. Did you ever get your answer or hatch any of their eggs to see?

Yesterday, I paired a white rooster with a paint hen, and my expectations are to perhaps get a few paints, a few partridge, a few white, and a few who knows what. I won't know for a month though as I'm saving their eggs for a week to set with other ones.

I ended up abandoning the project as I decided it would be easier to just buy the silkies I want rather than crossing in mixed bantams to the silkies.

Anyways after breeding the paint hen with my silkie rooster i got red ply, black, paint and partridge. I probably would of gotten both dominant white and recessive white if I hatched more egg. When researching I found really the only way to find if a chicken is recessive white is to test breed. And some people say a recessive white chick is more yellow than a dominant white chick, but I dont really think that is correct. My dominant white standard chicks dont really look more white than the recessive white silkies, but i didnt breed my white silkies last year so I don’t remember exactly what they look like. If you want when I hatch my silkies I can give you a comparison picture of the recessive and dominant white chicks

 

[Chickens-are-the-best]

I ended up abandoning the project as I decided it would be easier to just buy the silkies I want rather than crossing in mixed bantams to the silkies.

Anyways after breeding the paint hen with my silkie rooster i got red ply, black, paint and partridge. I probably would of gotten both dominant white and recessive white if I hatched more egg. When researching I found really the only way to find if a chicken is recessive white is to test breed. And some people say a recessive white chick is more yellow than a dominant white chick, but I dont really think that is correct. My dominant white standard chicks dont really look more white than the recessive white silkies, but i didnt breed my white silkies last year so I don’t remember exactly what they look like. If you want when I hatch my silkies I can give you a comparison picture of the recessive and dominant white chicks

Hi! Thank you so much for this response! I am breeding my Silkies and I have a white rooster that I am trying to breed with a paint hen to hopefully get white silkies, lol. This thread is so helpful since I didn't know when breeding white silkies I could end up with multiple different colors! That is awesome!