Do pencilled wyandottes breed true?

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Hey,

I was looking at some of the outcomes of breeding blue and black and splash wyandottes, but I'm wondering about pencilled wyandottes. If you breed a pencilled wyandotte rooster with a pencilled wyandotte hen will you still have pencilled offspring?

Also, are the offspring from blue x blue wyandottes still able to be shown despite the different colours produced? Seems weird to show because of the three different colour schemes produced.

Thanks,

 

[Cyprus]

Blue x blue = blue, black, splash which all are recognized (for bantams)
Blue and black can be shown with large fowl

Pencilled x Pencilled will produce 100% pencilled offspring as pencilling is recessive.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Partridge x partride =100% partridge
Would that also be true?

Thank you very much for the help!

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Partridge and Silver Pencilled are both varieties of several breeds. Whenever you breed a particular variety you beget the same.

Blue is a little confusing as it produces three colors. But once you wrap your mind around the variety is about black inhibitors it's easy. Two inhibitors makes splash. One inhibitor makes blue and no inhibitors is black. So you see if black (no inhibitors) is mated to splash (two inhibitors) then every offspring will have one inhibitor which show as blue, half inhibited black. And blue mated to blue will produce all the colors as each parent carries one inhibitor so offspring have odds to carry two, one or none. All three colors are the variety but only blue is shown at APA endorsed events.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Meaning the offspring are the same as parents for pencilled and partridge?

Okay, that makes sense, thank you.