Cuckoo Silkie Genetics for dummies.

[TheLuckyBean]

Hello!

My daughter and I have a small flock of Silkie chickens that we are enamored with That being said we would like to expand our Silkie flock and there is a color we absolutely love and would like to breed for but we want to be informed before we do so and would like to do it responsibly. The color is partridge cuckoo I believe. I have attached some photos for reference. Can some one please break these color genetics down to elementary level lol or point us in the right direction! Thanks in advance!

- Two little chicken tenders

 

[Amer]

Okay, so a partridge cuckoo Silkie is fairly simple. It is a partridge bird e^be^b with barring BB.
A partridge Silkie is a partridge bird e^be^b
A cuckoo Silkie is a black bird EE with barring BB
Barring is sexlinked. If you wanted to create a partridge cuckoo Silkie using a partridge Silkie and a cuckoo Silkie the easiest thing to do would be to take a cuckoo male over a partridge hen. EEBB + e^be^bb-
This will give you leaky cuckoos. Ee^bBb The males will only be single barred.
Breed these leaky cuckoos together and select only the partridge cuckoo offspring.

 

[nicalandia]

Partridge usually means eb/eb and Pg/Pg but due to the silkie feathering we cant see the penciling pattern. Unless they like dark brown leghorns are pure eb/eb lines without the pattern gene