4 week old silkie | What color is it?

[Cloverr39]

Was told this little one would be a blue partridge. If he's blue or anything else that I could use in breeding for bbs than I might keep him (I currently only have black adult silkies).

By the way crest feathers are growing in dark blue/black?

 

[Cloverr39]

@MysteryChicken maybe you could help?

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'll help when I'm done eating breakfast.

 

[Cloverr39]

Silver Blue, partridge instead of gold based.

Would breeding blue partridge to my blacks get me any proper colors or would they just be weird mixed colors?

 

[Cloverr39]

Blue X Black = 50% Blue, & 50% Black. In your mixing of those you can get leakage in the hackles, Saddle areas. Black can hide alot of other colors too, like Gold, Silver, & Red for examples.


Here's a BBS inheritance chart.View attachment 3120002

So it would basically be just like breeding with a normal blue but with leakage?

 

[MysteryChicken]

So it would basically be just like breeding with a normal blue but with leakage?

Yes. But not all will have leakage.

 

[Buckingham Palace]

I took some photos in more natural lighting. He definitely looks more on the bluer side. But I don't think blue chicks are supposed to be born brown.

Yeah. He is looking more blue i these photos.

 

[Buckingham Palace]

What handsome boys.

 

[Cloverr39]

Do you have pictures of them from day 1? Wanna make sure I didn't miss any clues in the chick down of Pookie?

The striping makes me think possible blue Cuckoo.

I have a couple. The rest of my pictures of him are 1 week and older.

What clues exactly are you looking for?

 

[Buckingham Palace]

So fuzzy