How to breed silver charcoals

[Danny]

I used to have lots of silver charcoals but the friendly neighbourhood Antechinus liked them too, leaving me with just one pair.
I'd like to create some more - I have surplus silver cocks, surplus charcoal hens.
How do I go about getting back to silver charcoal with this combination. I will also have some silver charcoal babies that can be used at the next cross if needed or I can break up the original pair and use them if its more useful.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Danny

[Danny]

Any zebby people out there - Chainsaw, Mark

[SamDavis]

I'll have a go...
Thread the surplus silver cocks onto a skewer and roast over an open flame until burnt. Unfortunately using this method you don't get any hens but that's often how it is with finch breeding!

[Finch_Breeder]

I'll have a go...
Thread the surplus silver cocks onto a skewer and roast over an open flame until burnt. Unfortunately using this method you don't get any hens but that's often how it is with finch breeding!

[MadHatter]

If someone can tell me the inheritance of both mutations I might be able to make some suggestions.

[nswchainsaw]

Silver is Dominate , Charcoals are recessive , if you pair a Silver to a Charcoal you get 50% greys and 50% Silvers they will be all split Charcoals if you are lucky to get a Silver Cock and a Silver Hen pair them together and you should get 25% Silver Charcoals ,
Garry.

[Danny]

Silver is Dominate , Charcoals are recessive , if you pair a Silver to a Charcoal you get 50% greys and 50% Silvers they will be all split Charcoals if you are lucky to get a Silver Cock and a Silver Hen pair them together and you should get 25% Silver Charcoals ,
Garry.

Thanks Garry - now I have direction not involving an open flame.
What would I get if I paired the silver split charcoals back to Silver Charcoal??

[mattymeischke]

Assuming both are autosomal, you'd get 50:50 silver split charcoal:silver charcoal from that cross.

[nswchainsaw]

Silver is Dominate , Charcoals are recessive , if you pair a Silver to a Charcoal you get 50% greys and 50% Silvers they will be all split Charcoals if you are lucky to get a Silver Cock and a Silver Hen pair them together and you should get 25% Silver Charcoals ,
Garry.

Thanks Garry - now I have direction not involving an open flame.
What would I get if I paired the silver split charcoals back to Silver Charcoal??

Charcoals and Silver Charcoals

[Danny]

Thanks