Can anyone show me what a blue silver pencilled wyandotte looks like?

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I have apparently hatched one of these.

Chick is 3 weeks old. Was all yellow on hatch and growing pure white feathers on wings, chest, back and shoulders. I thought it was a white wyandotte.

But I've just noticed some neck feathers coming in that appear to be buff?

I checked back to my hatching records and this egg was marked Blue Silver Pencilled.

The internet isn't playing ball with this random colour variant.

If anyone has one of these interesting chickens, please can you post some photos for me 🙏
 
Idk a lot about what varieties of Wyandotte are out there now and no.pic of any blue version of a silver penciled pattern of any breed.
Do you have a pic of this chick?
A blue silver penciled would be the same as a silver penciled with blue instead black. I used to raise SP plymouth Rock bantams and they never hatched yellow so not sure what's up there. Also a BSP would not have any buff tones.
 
A blue silver penciled would be the same as a silver penciled with blue instead black. Also a BSP would not have any buff tones.

This is exactly what I thought.

Here are some pics. You can only see the new slightly orangey neck feathers coming in when you part them. It looks like a pure white chick here.

I've got another pencilled wyandotte and it looks like a proper pencilled wyandotte!

This white one has me confused.
 

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Pic of another wyandotte chick I have which is pencilled. Silver rooster over a gold hen, so not sure what colour she will be. Somewhere inbetween? Anyway, very different from the white alleged blue silver pencilled one!

Is it possible that the white one is silver base and a dominant white pencilling which cancels out the blue, and the neck is leakage (meaning male?)?

I'm not hot on genetics.
 

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I have apparently hatched one of these.

Chick is 3 weeks old. Was all yellow on hatch and growing pure white feathers on wings, chest, back and shoulders. I thought it was a white wyandotte.

But I've just noticed some neck feathers coming in that appear to be buff?

I checked back to my hatching records and this egg was marked Blue Silver Pencilled.

The internet isn't playing ball with this random colour variant.

If anyone has one of these interesting chickens, please can you post some photos for me 🙏
Are you saying that you hatched one because of what was written on the egg or because of what the chick looks like?

People write the right things on purpose you know.🧐
 
Are you saying that you hatched one because of what was written on the egg or because of what the chick looks like?

People write the right things on purpose you know.🧐
I bought some hatching eggs of various wyandotte colours (separate breeding pens so should breed true) and the only one that hatched from the whole batch was this white one, from an egg labelled BSP, for blue silver pencilled.

I assumed they had mislabelled the eggs as they do have a white breeding pen. Then I noticed the orangey buff neck feathers coming in.

This breeder breeds the following colours:
"white partridge, red partridge, gold partridge, black, silver pencilled, blue silver pencilled, barred or white."

(The other proper pencilled chick I bought from another breeder at a few days old.)
 
Hmmmmm, a bit more digging online and maybe I have a Pyle aka White Partridge Wyandotte?

Would explain the buff neck.
 

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Here are some updated pics of the chick. The buff neck feathers are showing now.

I'm also thinking pullet?
 

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She looks like a little pullet! Stinks that she’s not blue silver penciled, I would love to see what that color looks like.
 
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