Silkie Color Help!

Old_McDonalds_Farm

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Mar 1, 2023
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Hey yall 😊 we are hatching our first eggs this week with the help of broody hens. Trying to figure out chick colors now 🤔 8 total, 5 are silkies, 2 are silkie/polish, 1 hopefully olive egger. (OE is a EE/ welsummer cross I threw in)

I know the dark chick #1 with photo in my hand came from polish egg. The other one is suspected to be dark #3

ETA: updated last hatched chick. Hoping some one can tell me what colors I might have!

olive egger, welsummer roo/buff EE:
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Dark #1 Polish/silkie egg:
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Partridge #1, light, silkie:
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Partridge #2, Red, silkie:
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Partridge #3, Light, silkie:
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Dark #2, silkie:
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Dark #3, polish/silkie:
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Partridge #4, light, silkie:
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Sorry for jumping on post hope this is allowed I do apologise if not as I’m new to the group I’m in the U.K. so I’d just say grey but is this
Grey…blue…or lavender??
Thank you in advance

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So clutch #1 is 6 weeks old, clutch #2 is 4 weeks old. All are satin feathers, all feathered feet except the 3 polish silkies, 2 silkie & 2 polkie have light skin & the rest have dark.

In a strange turn of events 😅 all 4 dark/ black chicks have some crazy colors coming in (3 polish/silkie mix, 1 just silkie) they all have black and white barring similar to a Barred Rock pattern and I have no idea where that's coming from. (Parents pic above)
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The partridge #2 is still reddish gold, the other 3 light partridge are a beige silvery color.
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The last chick to hatch from the 2nd clutch (with the white silkie & black polkie) ended up 3 days later and is a blue I believe
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And due to my son skipping out on chores 🙄 I have 4 more due to hatch in a week or so (estimating) so much for being done this year 😆 😅 she was sitting on 14 eggs, luckily only 4 were developed So we shall see how these turn out soon
 

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