New Silkies Lav/Buff crossing. (PIX)

[shay20]

ahhhhh they are so cute they look pure silkie almost. hehehe toooo cute

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

Oh they are pure silkies. Just two different colors of silkies mixed together. lol

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

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Well the picture of that very light buff would probably be called Lemon/Citron according to the information we got. Either way you put it, buff over lavender ISN'T porcelain.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

They ARE pure silkie.

Breed out-cross was many generations ago--the lavender was brought into silkies several years prior to 2001--don't recall from which breed. Of course no one called it lavender then--they called it self-blue, as is the recognised variety name for both APA and ABA. It was initially bred mostly into blues. I purchased a lavender splash (lavlav BlBl) in November 2001.

GM started breeding the self-blue into his buffs at least four or five years back--I can remember him talking about wanting to create porcelain silkies--his interest was in the diluted buff colouring. I think he now prefers the ones with the more lavender cast. They are both pretty.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Lemon/citron is the dilute formed using ig, not lav. There is both a genetic and appearance difference. ig dilutes red pigment only. lav dilutes both red and black. Birds labeled lemon or citron do not have the black pigment diluted.

Lemon is, to use a rather unspecific term, yellower. Rather like a pale pastel yellow. Here are photos of lemon mille fleurs:

Lemon braekels (they have a barring pattern similar to campines):

Citron sebrights:

Lemon blues (although I am reasonably sure that they are not based upon ig):

Ignoring the various patterns of the above birds, the lemon is still quite different than the isabel. On a different forum there is a thread on the isabels--and the posters there are the same people from whom you received your information on lemon/citron.

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

Me likes me some of them sebrights

 

[shay20]

my bad

i thought i read that they were crossed. and i was only kidding about the almost look pure. i did put a laughing symbol next to that.

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

I give up and give in. We'll just call everything Isabel Porcelain.

Anyone wanna buy some Isabel Porcelains? I've got some. They are all the rage lately....

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

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-Hugs Chris-

 

[shay20]

they are beautiful silkie babys, i have a blue silkie baby.