Are these chicks blue?

[Slothinc]

Okay everyone, need another opinion here. These cute little light blue chicks have started feathering in and they look more lavender to me than blue. I see faint black ticking stripes on the feathers, which in my experience has been on lavender birds that I have had. But can blues also have that? Also it’s very strange, because one of them is frizzled and that one looks like it has shredded feathers. I would probably think they were silkied feathers if I didn’t know that they couldn’t be (because dad was a purebred lavender ameraucana bantam and I can’t imagine that he could have carried the silkie gene)

What do you all think now? I’m growing all three out so I’ll continue to post as they grow and feather out more.

 

[Slothinc]

UPDATE!!!

These chicks are LAVENDER!!!!! I decided to have one of them tested for the lavender gene. The Silkie Lab (which I very highly recommend btw) did a lavender test on one of these babies for me! I tested the frizzled chick. The test can distinguish between one copy of the lav gene or two copies. I already knew that they carried one copy because their dad was a lavender chicken. But to my utter surprise and delight, the test came back with two copies of the lavender gene, which means that their mama carries lavender.

I feel like I won the chick lottery because I now have 3 chicks that are lavender, AND lay a blue egg, which is a project I’m working on.

Wooooooooohooooooooo!! I’ll attach some more pics of them, just because!

 

[Cheekychook12]

UPDATE!!!

These chicks are LAVENDER!!!!! I decided to have one of them tested for the lavender gene. The Silkie Lab (which I very highly recommend btw) did a lavender test on one of these babies for me! I tested the frizzled chick. The test can distinguish between one copy of the lav gene or two copies. I already knew that they carried one copy because their dad was a lavender chicken. But to my utter surprise and delight, the test came back with two copies of the lavender gene, which means that their mama carries lavender.

I feel like I won the chick lottery because I now have 3 chicks that are lavender, AND lay a blue egg, which is a project I’m working on.

Wooooooooohooooooooo!! I’ll attach some more pics of them, just because!

Very nice, noggy is a special chick

 

[Slothinc]

Very nice, noggy is a special chick

Yes!! Sweet little Noggy! I thought for awhile that Noggy was a girl but now I am thinking boy as the comb has started to look a little wider.

 

[Cheekychook12]

Yes!! Sweet little Noggy! I thought for awhile that Noggy was a girl but now I am thinking boy as the comb has started to look a little wider.

That’s pity? Will you keep him if he’s a he? Idk what you’d prefer but I assume hen

 

[Slothinc]

That’s pity? Will you keep him if he’s a he? Idk what you’d prefer but I assume hen

I always prefer hens just because I know I can keep them. In this case, where he is frizzle, I have a few frizzle girls already so if I want to keep him I will have to have a separate pen for him with non frizzled ladies only. Which is fine… but in our current living situation we aren’t really allowed roosters. So the less boys I am keeping is better. We are moving later this year to a place where I can keep boys! So that will be very exciting. I am hoping I can keep some from this batch. If at all possible I will try to keep at least one of these lavender boys, and also probably one of the paints and also if any of the lavender silkies I just hatched are boys then one of them as well! Long answer but basically I am hoping to keep Noggy and/or his lavender brother!