White silkie, black dot

[ChickenLeg]

Thanks for your input!! She is not his offspring. I got them separate. He is indeed a splash, not paint.

You think the white pullet is a paint? The one black dot is the only black on her.

Regardless these two silkies are inseparable I'll end up hatching a few eggs from them.

I gotcha, yeah you can cross them and work to get a pure paint line and pure splash line if those are the only two silkies you have, itll take several generation though. A paint is just a white bird with black leakage. Cheers

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Plucking an off color feather can be considered grooming or faking. Grooming would mean plucking the off colored feather enough time before a show to allow the new feather to grow in hopefully being the right color. Faking would be plucking the off colored feather a couple of minutes before the poultry show.

 

[ChickenLeg]

I don’t think she is a paint! If you are planning on exhibiting her just pluck it out! Sometimes white silkies get yellow bc of genetics of dirtiness. She is pretty though!

We've been referring to the black leakage not yellowing, cheers

 

[Sneebsey]

I don’t think she is a paint! If you are planning on exhibiting her just pluck it out! Sometimes white silkies get yellow bc of genetics of dirtiness. She is pretty though!

She is not Paint, but I believe her to be from a Paint project. Paint would be single-factor Dominant White, and breeding two Paints together would create both Black and double-factor Dominant White offspring, the latter of which can show stray black feathers.

 

[SeaGal4]

Thanks everyone I dont plan on plucking it! I was just curious if it was a genetic fault. The splash is my only rooster. I have the white hen, a black hen, and a partridge hen.

As of right now, my rooster is only mating with the white hen I may put all 3 of the hens with him in a separate pen. Althought not sure where the partridge would play in.... babies with a splash roo?

 

[Silkies rule Forever]

My white pullet i posted had a black feather in her crest before show. I plucked it at home (no harm done) and went on to win champion featherleg!

 

[Silkies rule Forever]

That would be a cool mix

 

[Sneebsey]

Thanks everyone I dont plan on plucking it! I was just curious if it was a genetic fault. The splash is my only rooster. I have the white hen, a black hen, and a partridge hen.

As of right now, my rooster is only mating with the white hen I may put all 3 of the hens with him in a separate pen. Althought not sure where the partridge would play in.... babies with a splash roo?

I would breed him to the black and the 'white' hen. From that group, if the white is what I believe her to be, all of her offspring will be Blue Paint, whilst all of the Black hen's offspring will be Blue. I wouldn't put the partridge hen in, as that would involve mixing the e-series; the three other birds are (or ought to be) based on Extended Black, therefore any offspring they have should be pure for their colour variety. When you mix the e-series, the offspring will all be impure; blue with gold/silver leaking through, depending on the father's hidden ground-colour.

 

[SeaGal4]

I would breed him to the black and the 'white' hen. From that group, if the white is what I believe her to be, all of her offspring will be Blue Paint, whilst all of the Black hen's offspring will be Blue. I wouldn't put the partridge hen in, as that would involve mixing the e-series; the three other birds are (or ought to be) based on Extended Black, therefore any offspring they have should be pure for their colour variety. When you mix the e-series, the offspring will all be impure; blue with gold/silver leaking through, depending on the father's hidden ground-colour.

Perfect, this is what I needed to hear! Thanks so much!!

 

[FishMtFarm]

My white pullet i posted had a black feather in her crest before show. I plucked it at home (no harm done) and went on to win champion featherleg!

No harm done except you just confessed that you cheated. Rules state you aren’t suppose to alter the color of the bird. If there was a black feather than that is not a standard white silkie.