Are these hens penciled?

[Egg Snatcher]

I have four of these hens that I think are penciled. All four hens are different shades. Are they penciled, if not can you tell what color please.

 

[CrazyCochin]

This is what a Silver penciled pattern should look like, it may not be the same breed, or my chicken, but this an example!
Yours dont look Silver Penciled.

 

[HappyDuckie]

They are old English game bantams. And the pattern isn’t pencilled.

 

[HappyDuckie]

They are pure silver duckwing X with a white with black taled mom. I think there mom is some kind of OEGB cross.

If they are a mix of colors, then they are not a standard color. Which means I don’t think there is a name for what color they are.

 

[sylviethecochin]

@sylviethecochin could you tell what the mom has in her?

I think, looking at the size of your hand in the picture, that she's a bantam cross. Her feet are white, not yellow, so at least one of her parents was probably white-skinned (though egg-laying can affect foot colour.) Neither of her parents had blue shanks. Both of her parents likely had a single comb, and neither of them had white earlobes.

Given her colours, I suspect that her father was silver-based, and the mother was gold-based (Since she has browner leakage on her feathers, one of her parents was probably gold-based. And gold and silver are sexlinked, so if the cross was the other way 'round, she'd be fully red.) but I can't tell you much else.

Do you have any idea of the potential parents? Given what I can see of her, I could narrow down a list, but I do need somewhere to start.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Yeah, your birds aren't silver Pencilled/Partridge.
Here's an Orpington cross of mine that confirmed my Buff Orpingtons carries the partridge gene.

She's Buff Orpington/Barred Rock X RIR.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

They are pure silver duckwing X with a white with black taled mom. I think there mom is some kind of OEGB cross.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

would you like a pic mom and dad?

 

[sylviethecochin]

Badly marked silver wheaten.

Looks like Mum might have been a silver Columbian--which is based on the wheaten pattern. I have a couple of similarly-coloured silver duckwing OEGb x red wheaten cochin crosses running around.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Mom

Dad