Makes total sense.....hmmmm, I could always come up with dirt colored Silkies. LoL. Actually. ....saw a chocolate/brown colored Silkie on one of the threads and I fell in LOVE. I used to raise/show brown standard poodles...we raise brown Muscovy & chocolate Runners.......seems I have a thing for animals that hide dirt!
Your Silkie is adorable btw.
Brown is good....gray is good...hide the dirt...we're thinking along same lines!
BTW - don't know which of my Silkies you thought adorable but this is how my little Partridge girl looked after a mean Marans chewed on her before we realized she wasn't molting! Even her little walnut comb got eaten off!
This was the cute little fluffball as a 6-month pullet but she never looked this pretty again after the Marans incident.
Today the Partridge has regrown her chewed off feathers but of course the chewed-off comb is completely gone. Consequently, the Black Silkie has always looked more fully feathered than the Partridge. Both girls have been backyard ranged so they come running with cobwebs and debris in their "hair" and the Black Silkie is such an OCD hen she scratches so hard that she's permanently lost a couple outside toenails and lost half of her outside toes too. She's technically a 41/2 toed Silkie now!
