Help with IDing colors 🎨

[JessiV14]

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))

Then I have a couple that I hatched and am wondering if they're maybe partridge?

I appreciate all of your help!

 

[CascadiaRiver]

I believe your IDs are correct, although I'm unsure how show quality the colors are, im rusty in silkies

 

[Cloverr39]

I see one paint, multiple splashes, a blue, some blacks, and and it looks like two partridges.

 

[JessiV14]

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.

 

[JessiV14]

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.

 

[CascadiaRiver]

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

 

[Cloverr39]

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.

Sometimes they can get confused and be hard to tell apart, but I don't think it's super common. Usually even dark blues will have lighter blue/grey underfluff, while blacks have very dark underfluff. You could also compare chick down, if you had photos of the bird as a chick. Usually even darker blues will look lighter than blacks as chicks. A sure way to tell, though time and space consuming, is test breeding and seeing if the bird acts like a blue or black.