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Thank you !She is beautiful! Lots of people try for the lemon/cream color laced by blue/gray in Orps and other breeds.
I agree with @EggSighted4Life on the silver gene. Im curious was the SLW cockerel hatched from the same batch of eggs? He also shows signs of gold recessive covered by dominant silver. In roos the silver is dominant but if they inherit 1 copy of recessive gold, it leaks through the saddle and hackle. In theory hens should only receive 1 copy of Silver or gold from the sire side and not have the leakage, but silver interacts with multiple other genes in unique ways. My guess she is a SLW roo cross with GLW hen, and at that a 1 of a kind. Be hard to recreate, and I think very unlikely to breed true. That is some of the beauty of crosses, but also the frustration!




