Black splash versus Blue splash

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Bl/Bl, not bl+/bl+

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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The Bantam Standard says:
“PLUMAGE: Slaty blue and white that has a faint bluish gray tinge. Blue in feathers in the form of large irregular shaped blobs as distinct from V-shaped ticking. Main tail feathers and primary wing feathers with a lesser amount of blue than the rest of the plumage. UNDERCOLOR: Slaty blue and sooty white, evenly distributed.”

The only time I describe splash using modifiers is in a discussion such as this, or as a part of a non-standard variety name (example, "lemon splash columbian" or "splash mottled." I NEVER call splash "blue splash" or "white splash" or "black splash." Yes, the bird pictured has a great deal of contrast between the dark splashings and the background colouring. It could be paint, but the "spots" seem too small; or it could be exchecquer or mottle.

Variation in background colour and splash colour is determined by melanizers. As a whole, the blue gene is quite variable; since splash is a double dose of the gene, it seems more surprising that significant variation is not more common. There are several current discussions of blue and splash at The-Coop. There is a lot of anecdotal tales of breeding blues to blues or blacks to blues or splash to splash having the characteristic of darkening or lightening the colour (of both blue and splash), but no one has done any empirical testing to verify.

A week ago I heard a rumor at one show about another. It was repeated so many times by so many people that by the time the show was over "the way things are going, I would't be surprised if ..." had become acknowledged "fact" rather than the speculation of the original statement.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

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What was the rumor??

 

[crtrlovr]

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I know nothing about genetics but your pullet is so cute!!!

Love her!

Ditto! What she said!!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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What was the rumor??

not gonna repeat it as I do not believe it true. And it's far enough from you that I doubt it would be a concern anyways.

 

[JenEric Farms]

Drats! I opened this hoping I was going to see a paint silkie.

Beautiful picture though.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

There are some on feathersite, and also here: http://www.the-coop.org/forums/ubbt...&Main=5178&Words=paint+&Search=true#Post39054

 

[JenEric Farms]

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I've been looking at those same pictures for a couple of years now! Wish there were some here! Absolutely love the paint!

 

[SilkieCRZYness]

There are paint silkies here. I know of severel breeders with them.

 

[JenEric Farms]

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Really...several??? Why don't we ever see them? Are they being shown?