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This is why I said I wasn't holding my breath to get any dominant whites out of these, but I'll still breed a white roo to a paint and also just make some white chicks as peeps have been asking for them.Oh my gosh!!! I am so excited for your Bobbi eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhh I can’t even wait! Isn’t she so nice? Lol I love her! I hope you get a whole bunch of gorgeous porcelains so I can see all the pics and be extremely jealous Seriously I can’t wait to see her babies when you hatch them. Also very excited for the eggs you currently have in!
Just as an FYI on the paint breeding (this is my understanding so I could be wrong but I love paints so have researched them quite a bit!)
Most white silkies are recessive white. It is very likely that your white silkie eggs are recessive white unless they were sold as dominant white or out of a paint pen. Paint is made by crossing dominant white with black. A paint bird is a black bird with a dominant white gene. The dominant white allows for pigment “holes” that the black peeks through. So if you have a paint already, just cross with a black silkie and you should get half paint, half black from that breeding. Because the paint will pass the dominant white gene to half of the offspring.
Now if you cross two paint birds together, you can end up with 25% white (these birds carry two dominant white genes) 50% paint (carrying one dom white and one black gene) and 25% black (no dom white gene). You can then take the white birds out of this breeding and breed them to a black to get 100% paint offspring.
A couple of other things I had learned about paint when I was researching them - it is preferred to use blacks that are silver based rather than gold based because then you won’t have gold leakage on your paints. But silver based blacks are harder to come by and most breeders don’t exclusively use them. And the other thing is that most paint breeders prefer to use black birds out of paint lines in their paint programs, thinking that the pigment holes will be bigger, and thus the spots will be bigger. However I haven’t really seen hard evidence of that. So if all you have is a gold based black out of non paint lines, I’d still give it a try with a paint hen! Or order eggs from a paint breeder I do think that if you have paint birds with nice bold spots, those birds bred together would probably yield the best paint offspring.
Also not discouraging you from breeding a recessive white to a paint bird, but just know that you very likely won’t get any paints out of such a breeding. Recessive white should only be bred to recessive white, or all sorts of random colors can pop up.
Excited for what you have in the works right now!!
I do have one black hen from that paint breeder so wonder about putting her with the blue rooster actually. Like I told Janie, I'm thinking about just throwing them all in a pen and seeing what I get but then I won't know which of the whites/blacks had anything to do with the paints, and I should be paying attention to that.