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What Color is this Silkie Chick?

post #1 of 18
6/17/12 at 12:52pm
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I have a Silkie chick that I do not know what color it is.  It came from a Splash x Splash pen, and is 3 1/2 months old. I thought splash x splash produced splash, but this chick is solid colored.  Here is some pictures, please let me know what you think!

This is her back.

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There is a glare that makes the right side look white, but she is the same color all over

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Here is a wing picture:

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post #2 of 18
6/17/12 at 1:36pm

She looks kind of greyish/bluish. 

 

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post #3 of 18
6/17/12 at 1:47pm

looks like a lavender 

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post #4 of 18
6/17/12 at 1:47pm

kinda looks like a self blue

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post #5 of 18
6/17/12 at 2:15pm
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I really hope it is a lavender!!! That would be so cool! I have been researching how you get a lavender, but I am still not really sure on it.  I have never seen a lavender in person, but have been looking at them online.  If this chick is a lavender (self-blue) that means that one of my hens or rooster carries the gene, right? This chick would be a split, wouldn't it?

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post #6 of 18
6/17/12 at 2:19pm

IF that chick is lavender, and not a splash which has not shown it's spots...BOTH parents would have to carry lavender. They are only produced when there are two copies of the lavender gene present. The only way you might tell if it is an odd splash or lavender is to wait till it is mature and then breed it to a black bird. If it is splash, you'll get all blues. If it is lavender you'll get all blacks. 

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post #7 of 18
6/17/12 at 2:50pm
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If I bred it back to its dad, wouldn't I get more lavenders (if it is a lavender)?Because its dad must carry the lavender gene. I didn't know that some splashes do not have spots, what causes that?

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post #8 of 18
6/17/12 at 3:05pm
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If I bred it back to its dad, wouldn't I get more lavenders (if it is a lavender)?Because its dad must carry the lavender gene. I didn't know that some splashes do not have spots, what causes that?

 

inbreeding is really not a good idea, i have noticed in my silkie flock since they are so closely related they tend to get deformations very easily. (i have since gotten rid of roos and added other birds into my flock.)

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Im sixteen years old, mamma of two horses (one off the track mare, one event mare), two pygmy goats, two dogs, (a rottie and a mutt), two cats, a bearded dragon, and 31 chickies, (silkies, australorps, easter eggers, andalusions, brown leghorns, polish,and mutts).

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post #9 of 18
6/17/12 at 3:21pm
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Ok, I am pretty new to this hu.gif I have just read on other posts, people breed them back to their parents to get the colors they want.
 

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post #10 of 18
6/17/12 at 3:34pm

yea, i have also read this but in my personal experience with silkies the babies have extra toes or messed up legs. this might have just been a bad gene in my flock though. 

Im sixteen years old, mamma of two horses (one off the track mare, one event mare), two pygmy goats, two dogs, (a rottie and a mutt), two cats, a bearded dragon, and 31 chickies, (silkies, australorps, easter eggers, andalusions, brown leghorns, polish,and mutts).

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Im sixteen years old, mamma of two horses (one off the track mare, one event mare), two pygmy goats, two dogs, (a rottie and a mutt), two cats, a bearded dragon, and 31 chickies, (silkies, australorps, easter eggers, andalusions, brown leghorns, polish,and mutts).

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