Help with color of silkie chick

[Jeni11]

I was wondering if anyone could help me identify the color of my newborn silkie, she was born last night and I know she is still not fluffed yet, but any help would be much appreciated.

She looks yellow with orange on her neck, wings, and legs. (She looks gray in the picture, but that is just her black skin.) Is it possible she is buff?
Her mother and father are my two blue bearded silkies that I got as chicks last summer, the breeder told me they were pure blue but I don't see how this could be (not that I cared, I just wanted two pet silkies).

Anyways, here is a picture of the chick







and these two are her parents

 

[Clucksworth]

I have heard that blue silkies don't breed true, meaning that if you breed two colours together you won't get a complete batch of blue offspring. So the breeder who supplied you with the silkies was correct in telling you that the parent birds were both blue. I breed blue laced wyandottes and they don't breed true to their breed colour either.
As you suspected the blonde/grey coloured chick will turn out to be a splash silkie chicken ( which is means it will be grey birds).

Breeding blue silkies should yield ( on average) the following results:

Blue x Blue = 50%Blue, 25% Black, 25% Splash
^ ^ ^( This is what your silkies will produce, so for example if you hatch 8 eggs from your hens you would get 2 Splash chicks, 2 Black chicks and 4 Blue chicks)

Here are what the other combinations you can achieve:
Blue x Splash = 50% Blue, 50% Splash
Splash x Splash = 100% Splash
Splash x Black = 100% Blue
Black x Black = 100% Black

Hope this helped

 

[BantamFan4Life]

She could be a white, buff, or red Silkie.

 

[Jeni11]

Thank you so much! As it turns out, I have 8 eggs in the incubator and the second that hatched this morning is blue

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[BantamFan4Life]

Thank you so much! As it turns out, I have 8 eggs in the incubator and the second that hatched this morning is blue

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Awesome! I have a blue silkie too. Wanna see it?

 

[Jeni11]

Yes, I'm silkie obsessed!

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Here she is, her name is Sweety.

 

[Jeni11]

Sweety is very cute!

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Sweety is very cute!

Thanks! she got a blue ribbon in a poultry show too

 

[Robinsong]

Wow! I've been trying to find answers about the future color of my silkie babies with no luck. When I got them at the feed store I got one yellow, one black and one gray. Now, at 4 weeks, the yellow is getting a lot of brown, the black is getting a gray head, and the gray is turning black! Anyone know what they will eventually look like? Sweet little things...