Buff / Lavender Mix creating Blue Cuckoo Silkie? Updated photos.

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

Ive been taking photos of this bird, keeping track of its feathering evolution almost every week. At 3 weeks old now its really looking amazing. Starting out as a blue silkie (with lavender/buff parents). Now showing more and more of what seems to be a cuckoo pattern every day with each new feather. I absolutely love this bird. Any and all comments is welcomed. I have no idea what to lable this bird. I dont even know if its cuckoo patterns or if its silver. Either way what I do know is that its crazy.

(P.S. I have 6 others that are siblings. One of which I will post a photo of along with the little blue cuckoo chick. It's another I'm in love with.)

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Well I don't know much about chicken genetics, but I would like to say that those are two cute little chickies!

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

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Im still learning myself. Some times I feel so dumb while trying to talk to people about genetics. Cause a lot of its all like greek to me lol

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

I emailed the guy that I got these chicks from and asked him if he gets any more like the little blue one to let me know. I had to drive 3 hours to get to him but I would gladly do it again if I could get more of the silkies like in the first post. if they proved to produce more when breed together we might have something going on here. A new variety perhaps.

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

cmon I know there's a lot of genetic experts out here that can help me T.T

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

cmon I know there's a lot of genetic experts out here that can help me T.T

Hey, it was Saturday--errand running,

Was there any sort of head spot on Little Blue? Or did s/he have back stripes?

Pretty little girl, too.​

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

Right now its kind of hard to tell if the head feathers are going to be different. Here is a photo of what it looked like when I first got it. You can see it looked very much like just a regular blue, all except for the white around the eyes.

 

[magikchick]

How cool is that! Can't wait to see it all feather (fluffed) out.

 

[sonew123]

if the parents are buff and lavender-what makes it a cuckoo??? Is that what that conbo is named? I've seen the word cuckoo used a few times and I'm still confused..