Help with IDing colors 🎨

JessiV14

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Jun 6, 2025
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Can you guys help me with these colors? It's the ones in the back: I have several of the grey colored ones that have the darker grey that I bought at a feed store. Then I have a couple that are white with the black/dark grey spots. (My uneducated guess is Splash (grey) and paint (white))
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Then I have a couple that I hatched and am wondering if they're maybe partridge? 🤔
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I appreciate all of your help!
 
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I believe your IDs are correct, although I'm unsure how show quality the colors are, im rusty in silkies
Thanks! I definitely don't believe that any are show quality. (As I got the smaller ones as an egg for raw milk trade from a customer and they'd have comes from a mixed flock. The older ones are from TSC and Bomgaar's.)

I'm hoping to breed these ones so that I can get the money to invest in show quality stock. 🤞
 
I see one paint, multiple splashes, a blue, some blacks, and and it looks like two partridges.
Thank you! Is it accurate that some blacks are actually a dark blue? I'd have to look into it a little more- but I felt like I saw something talking about blacks vs dark blue and how they're often mistaken.
 
Thank you! Is it accurate that some blacks are actually a dark blue? I'd have to look into it a little more- but I felt like I saw something talking about blacks vs dark blue and how they're often mistaken.
In my experience we saw way more "poor blacks" ie a black with just not great color to it, weak, than we saw really dark blues. Maybe it's just some breeders preference for a bird who looks distinctly blue so that's what ended up common over here, but typically it was poor black not dark blue
 

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