Does a Celadon × English White pairing breed true?

Yes. Every chick from this pairing carries the same color genes as the parents, so the pen breeds true.

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Celadon × English White: What Color Chicks Do You Get?

Every chick from this pairing is a Tuxedo-type Pharaoh.

None of these chicks will lay blue eggs — but every single one carries the celadon gene and will pass it on. This is exactly how blue skips a generation and reappears.

The hatch, chick by chick

Chick looks like	Carries, but does not show	Egg shell (hens)	Share of hatch
Tuxedo-type Pharaoh	celadon	Normal	100%

Tuxedo-type Pharaoh: A single dose of white spotting shows as partial white — bibs, belly patches, odd white primaries. How much white it puts on a bird varies a great deal, so expect a spread rather than a matched set.

What each parent brings

Celadon (Blue Egg Layers)

Celadon is an egg-shell trait, not a plumage variety. A celadon bird is modelled here as wild-type Pharaoh plumage carrying two copies of ce — if your celadon line is also colored, run the plumage cross separately.

The ce gene is recessive: a hen needs two copies to lay blue, and roosters carry it invisibly. Celadon × celadon breeds true for blue eggs. A celadon hen's daughters by a non-carrier male all carry one copy and lay normal eggs — which is how blue 'disappears' for a generation and returns.

Full Celadon (Blue Egg Layers) guide →

English White

Two doses of white spotting. White × white breeds white reliably; crossed to anything else it hands every chick a single dose, which is where tuxedo-patterned birds come from.

Built on recessive white spotting: two copies produce the mostly-white bird. Because the gene masks whatever color lies beneath, English White × colored crosses can throw surprises in later generations as hidden colors resurface. White × white breeds white reliably.

Full English White guide →

What this assumes

Both parents are exactly what they are sold as. A bird carrying a hidden recessive — roux, celadon, white spotting — changes these numbers. Recessive carriers are invisible, which is the whole reason surprises happen.
These are per-chick probabilities, not a quota. A 50/50 split does not mean half your hatch of ten will be each. Small hatches swing hard; the ratios show up over dozens of chicks, not eight.
Coturnix inheritance is debated and varies by line. The modes used here are the ones consistently reported by breeders, and they match what our own variety guide says — but verify against your own stock before you plan a season around it.
Color only. Size, lay rate and temperament come from line selection, not from these genes.

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Other pairings keepers ask about

Celadon × Celadon Celadon × Manchurian Gold Celadon × Italian Celadon × Pharaoh Celadon × Rosetta Celadon × Roux Celadon × Tibetan Celadon × Tuxedo

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