Black or Blue Silkies

[ninena102]

I am having a terrible time trying to figure out if my dark colored chicks are blue or black Silkies. Can you please tell me what you think? Thanks so much.

 

[ninena102]

Mine turned out to be black Silkies. I have 4 white and 4 black Silkies that are now 10 weeks old. They are doing great. I just got 15 more babies this past Friday. They are 4 days old. I got five each of the blues, splash, and buff. They also are doing fine. I hope you enjoy yours as much as I'm enjoying mine.

 

[shmccarthy]

I think they're black. I got a mix of black blue and splash silkies and the blue ones look like this

 

[ninena102]

I think they're black. I got a mix of black blue and splash silkies and the blue ones look like this

Oh, how precious...I want some....

 

[ninena102]

Thank you so much.. So now, I don't have to rack my brains .lol .I want to get some different colored sikies, like the blue and splash and I think, a buff colored ones, but I can't find where I can purchase them this late. They are sold out at the places I've been googling. I guess I have to wait till next year.

 

[shmccarthy]

I got mine from cackle, have you checked there? They're bantam silkies but that's what I wanted working with limited space. I got blue black and splash because I really like the colors of them and you can get each of those by just starting with blue. I was gonna just put a blue rooster over all the silkies and hatch out a big variety.

 

[ninena102]

I found the site and ordered the colors I didn't have. I'm just concerned that I will get a bunch of roosters. All of them were straight runs.

 

[WindStep]

so cute

 

[ninena102]

Thank you very much.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

For what its worth, sometimes its so hard to tell blue and black Silkies apart that the only way to know for certain is to breed them. I can't count the number of times that folks on here have searched high and low for a true black bird only to breed them and get blue chicks (if you breed 2 black Silkies together, none of the chicks will be blue). The hen in my avatar looked very similar to your dark chicks when she was little...