How do I know if these chicks are splash or blue silkies?

[vpeterson]

The mother was blue and the father was black. Are these chicks blue or splash ? What do splash chicks look like? Could someone post a picture of the difference between blue chicks and splash chicks when they are first born?

Thanks

 

[V Comb]

Looks blue to me

 

[scbatz33]

If the parent birds are blue and black - genetically speaking you should only be getting blues and blacks. Splash is only created by crossing two splash or a splash and a blue.

Splash = BL,BL
Blue = BL,bl
Black = bl,bl

 

[Elite Silkies]

They are blue.

 

[joebryant]

Something's amiss here; there's no way that you could get all those colors if you had actual bbs silkies.

 

[suburbanminifarm]

Splash chicks look white, then you start to see spots of blue on the wings as the first wing feathers come in.

 

[iluvmychicks]

Hi,

A blue to black breeding would yield 50% blue and 50% black. Splash chicks have a grey silvery down when chicks.

The chicks posed in the front appears blue


Shari

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I assume that the whitish/buff chicks came from different parents. Or that both the blue & black parent carry recessive white, and those particular birds inherited it from both parents. Although at least one looks too buff to be a white chick.

 

[vpeterson]

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The whites are from a different set of parents. Both of those parents were whites.

 

[joebryant]

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The whites are from a different set of parents. Both of those parents were whites.

NOW you tell us? Okay, from what I can tell, I'd guess that all three of the dark ones are blue. I don't see one that I think is black.