*Please do not choose a feather sample for Silkies who do not yet have real feathers. This does not work with chick down. Please use blood spots on a plain piece of white paper or an index card for birds that are not old enough to have real feathers yet.
About Smoky
Smoky is a version of the same PMEL17 gene behind Dominant White. It carries the Dominant White insertion along with a small extra deletion that partly restores pigment production. Instead of a white bird you get a dark slate or deep blue one.
Because smoky looks so much like blue, breeders regularly pair it as blue and get results that make no sense on paper. Testing tells you which one you are actually working with before you build a pen around the bird.
Dominant White and Dun are separate mutations of the same gene and are sold as their own tests.
