Splash East Indies update. (Splash seems to work better because everyone so far when I say silver assumes that all Blues can create Silver and that's just not how this gene works in the Indies.)
The female is average Black East Indies size the male is big though. I will be working on their size...
I almost feel they would more appropriately be called Splash East Indies. (Also it's amazing how much they can grow in a week. The 2 top ones are 1 week older.)
UPDATE: They all have a little bit of orange Feathering and are basically a very light silver / white-ish color. They're still growing their wing feathers but are turning out absolutely stunning. They 2 older hatched 3/22/23 so they are 8 weeks old. The younger one is just 1 week younger.
No Blue East Indy, he was just standing funny in the one pic. He wanted to get further into the corner than the one on the floor was letting him, so he tried going up and over.
I have been breeding show lined black East Indies for several years now. The year before last my friend produced a blue out of black ducks and I had assumed it was just a crossbred. Like many people online I was quick to jump on the blue East Indies are just crossbreds bandwagon. But I gave her...