Is this silkie chick a light blue..update..NO..it's a splash...

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Hoping so! It's 2 weeks old so please excuse the beginning adolescence look. No...it's wing isn't really split like that !

The egg was labeled "blue" when it arrived.

 

[HenPen]

Looks like what my splash looked like at that age...

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

I hatched six splash chicks a few months ago and they all had identifiable spots on them as soon as they were dry. I don't see any different colored feathers on this chick at this time...but my jury is still out on that. The dark color coming through on this chick is it's black skin.

 

[lurky]

That looks like a splash to me also.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

I'm no expert but I'm with you gator I don't see splash, just dark skin.
I hatched my first blue about 7 weeks ago and it was a lot more "grey" looking than this one right from the beginning, but maybe this will be a pretty light blue?
What do the lavenders look like when they are small? I haven't seen one but this would be my inexperienced guess.

 

[MonkeyZero]

Someone had one on craigslist like that for $10, and it sold within an hour. Its a splash from what the ad said and what your chick looks like.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

I hatched a lavender and could barely tell it from thw pure white in the beginning. It had a "dusty" color.

 

[19hhbelgian]

Could it simply be white? The dark skin gives an illusion of an odd color, but what do the feathers look like in bright sunlight? I hate cameras for that reason... They never show the color properly. Mine usually get washed out

If it was marked blue, I would hope it isn't white!

 

[lurky]

The splash silkies are that color when babies, and the splash coloring appears and increases as they get older.

 

[19hhbelgian]

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That's what I was thinking, but the OP said their splash chicks had spots when they first hatched, so I figured I was incorrect on that

I know as my splash silkie got older, her splash markings became more and more prominent, but I only got her when she was about a month or so old, so don't know exactly what she looked like as a chick.

On another note, my splash Ameraucanas hatched out completely white, and now have very nice splash markings

When I first saw them I thought, "well, that figures", but they have changed immensely over just a few weeks.