Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[MuranoFarms]

Hi all...I often lurk on this thread and was wondering if you all can give me some advice. I only need 1 roo, so I need to get rid of 1. On the left is Rusty 2 years old. On the right is the baby (from bobbi porto of indigo egg) both have nice toes and foot/leg feathering when the snow isn't messing with it. Rusty is a great roo, but I suspect he's too gold. Am I correct in thinking I should keep the baby?
Thanks!

 

[peepblessed]

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I'm not sure where the blue/splash comes in but that just a very very dark partridge. I had one almost just like her - a friend has her now.... Interesting case scenario for all of us genetic flops. Ask April, she'll know...

I guess she just assumed it was blue because they come out of her blue/splash pen.

It is the same color as her blues as I saw it in person, but I don't know that that means anything. How do you tell the different between blue and normal?

Here's a side shot of her.

 

[pennie1]

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How old is the baby?

 

[pennie1]

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I'm not sure where the blue/splash comes in but that just a very very dark partridge. I had one almost just like her - a friend has her now.... Interesting case scenario for all of us genetic flops. Ask April, she'll know...

I guess she just assumed it was blue because they come out of her blue/splash pen.

It is the same color as her blues as I saw it in person, but I don't know that that means anything. How do you tell the different between blue and normal?

Here's a side shot of her.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102351_silkies_ginger122111_blue_parti.jpg

Maybe it's just the lighting on her but she just looks like a very dark partridge. I can't really tell.

 

[peepblessed]

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I guess she just assumed it was blue because they come out of her blue/splash pen.

It is the same color as her blues as I saw it in person, but I don't know that that means anything. How do you tell the different between blue and normal?

Here's a side shot of her.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102351_silkies_ginger122111_blue_parti.jpg

Maybe it's just the lighting on her but she just looks like a very dark partridge. I can't really tell.

I know there is no standard for blue partridge yet but are most people working on a light blue? I noticed someone mentioned lavender.

 

[jen5680]

I am pretty sure that with blue partri the feathers that are normaly blk are blue instead. You can use lav for blue partri.
I was told that when you breed your blue and partri together to take the babies with the most blue and breed them back
to daddy or blue males back to mom.

Murano, if I had to chose btw the two I would pick the one on the left.
The one on the right seems to have a very long back but maybe it's jsut the shot???

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Peep your girl looks like my Snickers who is definitely a dark blue. - talk to Brody Brodello shes the one who works with and on the dark blue partridge that looks like your girl. I have Snickers the dark girl, and then a very pale almost lavender in shade type blue partridge teenager

 

[peepblessed]

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Thanks guys! I'll wait and see what color this chick turns out. I post it again in a couple of months.

I'm sure it will be beautiful. Actually hoping for a boy.

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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I'm not sure where the blue/splash comes in but that just a very very dark partridge. I had one almost just like her - a friend has her now.... Interesting case scenario for all of us genetic flops. Ask April, she'll know...

Felt my ears burning, so here I am. It appears that there is pattern gene ie partridge in this blue line of the breeder birds. So when the birds are breed together, both parents carrying the gene, they are throwing the odd Partridge bird. Being that the birds are blue (dilute of black) these blue partridge birds are coming out. Since partridge is just a pattern over a solid color, you get basically a Blue silkie with a partridge pattern. I call these F1's at my house, I have found that breeding these to another partridge patterned bird, you get a better coloring or pattern on the next generation, ie more even coloring. Hope this helps!

 

[Brody's Broodello]

The light Blue partridge are the Splash version of Blue with the Partrdige pattern. If you look at the Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, they come in the Blue lacedon red feathering. Then almost a White laced ( very pale blue) on Red feathering, these are the Splash version of the BLR coloring. When breeding them, you will get BLR,SplashLR & Black LR in the same hatch. Just like a BBS pen of silkies, and if you breed you partridge in the same way you will get the same results as a BBS pen, just with the Partridge ticking all over.