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Lemon/citron is the dilute formed using ig, not lav. There is both a genetic and appearance difference. ig dilutes red pigment only. lav dilutes both red and black. Birds labeled lemon or citron do not have the black pigment diluted. Lemon is, to use a rather unspecific term, yellower...

They ARE pure silkie. Breed out-cross was many generations ago--the lavender was brought into silkies several years prior to 2001--don't recall from which breed. Of course no one called it lavender then--they called it self-blue, as is the recognised variety name for both APA and ABA. It...

So Chris, what would you call them?

The lighter one was closer to white, but definitely not white--unfortunately I lost her a couple of weeks ago or I could take her photo next to a white and you could see the difference. Here are photos of the darker one with white and buff hens: You can see lavender showing a bit in her...

Isabel Porcelain pullets (plus a black split to lav cockerel)--yes, I do know it ought to have the mille pattern to include porcelain in the name.

Any hints?

Yes, Chris, a real porcelain is a lavender diluted mille fleur pattern.

Well, it sounds like to get pink you need to breed lavender to red, not buff--but that is a guess. But since Henk made that guess...give it a LOT of weight.

Breed the likliest and clearest together. Breed any really typey ones with partridge pattern to a clear and select the clearest to continue. Don't be surprised if most show the partridge patterning--it's strong.

Cute babies I can see the blue in some and partridge markings. The last little one looks like it may well be isabel porcelain. A double dose of lavender (lav lav) will dilute all feather plumage. A single dose (Lav lav) won't dilute any. Blue or splash (Blbl or BlBl) will dilute black...