unknown color of silkie

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I recently got silkie chickens and one is colored differently and I'm not sure what it would be called. I googled and couldn't find anything.
It's supposed to be a black silkie, BUT it has reddish, like auburn feathers as well, really pretty. I was thinking splash maybe, but I've only seen white with black, not black with reddish coloring. And it's not really splashy anyhow, it's around it's neck and on its chest.
Here's a photo, I'll post a better one in a minute.

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Hen or Roo ya think?
 
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I believe he could be a gold based Birchen. see his wing bow? its melanized, if he was a partridge this would have been emulananized(red coloring)


Or..

seen how silkies are all weird to look at.. he could be a solid blue that is leaking pheomelanin(groud color,red color)
 
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I believe he could be a gold based Birchen. see his wing bow? its melanized, if he was a partridge this would have been emulananized(red coloring)

gold birchen would be partrdge sence gray is only gene looks like birchin witch a silver partrdge my genetics
 
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I am going after what I see in him, not what is believe to be or not to be in silkies, E^R gold Birchen is what I see, or a leaky Blue based on Extended Black and Gold.

Do you see any color on the Wing Bay? no. there goes the Partridge theory
 
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I am going after what I see in him, not what is believe to be or not to be in silkies, E^R gold Birchen is what I see, or a leaky Blue based on Extended Black and Gold.

Do you see any color on the Wing Bay? no. there goes the Partridge theory
 
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I believe he could be a gold based Birchen. see his wing bow? its melanized, if he was a partridge this would have been emulananized(red coloring)

there is no birchen in silkies so no it cant be birchin morethen likely its a blue out of partrdge

Grey looks like birchen.

The OPs bird looks like a blue with gold leakage.
 

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