Is this a Blue Partridge Silkie? *Now with Picture*

[silkieluver_07]

I have a youngster silkie that's growing out that is a nice even shade of blue with copper/tanish colored hackles. Does this resemble a blue partridge at all? If not I'm going to sell it at auction tonight.

 

[Camelot Farms]

Got pic?

 

[Funky Feathers]

If you have no Partridge, I'd get rid of it. Off colored hackles are a DQ.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Blue partridge is partridge with blue replacing black. Penciling may improve with age, although some will be present from early on.

Here is a pullet of mine when she was younger.

And another pullet:

And a henny feathered cock:

Here are some partridge cocks, one is blue partridge, although it is a very dark blue.

 

[silkieluver_07]

Thanks for the pictures Sonoran. I think its just gold leakage on the hackles. I'll see how it feathers out, then I'll decide if I want to keep it not as a pet.

I'll get pictures tomorrow

 

[Brody's Broodello]

Hi Hannah, Here is a photo of the Blue Partridge Hen that my son showed at the York show.

she has been breeding true to color, we now have a bunch of little carbon copies of her!

 

[silkieluver_07]

Here's a picture, and I know it has a single comb, so it won't be showable just wondering what the "color" could be called.

Its starting to get more buff/partridge in its crest and hackle feathers.

 

[briarpatchfarms]

It looks to be a blue partridge to me!

 

[TurtleFeathers]

That's what my blue partridge looked like at that age. He was kind of an accident tho - he came from a mixed flock, and I had no idea what he was. Because his throat and chest came in reddish at first (against the blue), I named him "Robin".

 

[Windywillow]

That’s a great name