Colombian silkie??? Any information appreciated

[Catfishkettlefarms]

This is the hen he came from

 

[Catfishkettlefarms]

This is the roo

 

[Catfishkettlefarms]

Do you have pics of the parent stock? Would be nice to see them because E/eb(most silkies are eb), Co/co+(Columbian) cross will show alot of gold/silver leakage on the breast.

Wow stunning bird in your profile picture

 

[nicalandia]

Wow stunning bird in your profile picture

Yeah, it's a Splash Red enhanced Salmon. It kinda look Pink to my eyes so I use it now.

Kinda like these Brahma except the silkie feathering has a blurry effect that helps produce a cotton candy phenotype, the males can also have such effect if they were henny Feathered instead.

 

[nicalandia]

Reflecting on the BBS males you show on the pics none of your males seems to be E/eb, Co/co+ heterozygotes, they don't show any leakage as E/e+ and E/eWh do.

I always wondered how a E/eb cross would look like seen how eb is a mutation of E(same gene different coding) the first mutation after wildtype e+ was Extended Black, ER Birchen was a direct mutation of Extended Black and eb(brown/partridge) is a direct mutation of ER to eb so it goes like E>ER>eb, other mutations of the e allele like eWh(greatest effect on Extended Black) and ey are not related to Extended Black at all.

For more info on E/E, ER/ER, eb/eb sharing the same Amino acid positions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12873211/
https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03506.x#t1

 

[ColumbianSilkieMom]

Wow stunning bird in your profile picture

I have a 10 week old Columbian- I think pullet