Platinum or Something Else?

[Silkies4everr]

I recently hatched these two chicks out and was not expecting the chicks to be these colors. Her past chicks have all been duckwing and wheaten variants but she's been in with a different rooster for a while now. The photos of the parents will be a bit muddy since they've been out foraging. I have some information about the father's parents since I hatched him out.

Here's the chick photos. The older one is a white color with a bit of a grayish tint near the eye area. The younger chick is more of a pale blue color, but after looking at platinum chick photos I thought the second one looked more like them than the white one. The wing feathers on the white one appear to be growing in white at the moment.

Here is the mother, she's an old english bantam from a hatchery.

Here's their father, Pumpkin, his father was a satin roo (his hackles were golden, his tail was splash, his breast was sort of a white color with red in the center of the feathers, and his crest and saddle were red) x porcelain d'uccle hen. His mother is mix of various silkies and naked necks, she's a mottled black birchen frizzle. Pumpkin was mottled as a yearling (his head was almost completely white) but lost almost all of it, he just has a few white tipped crest feathers now.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Chick color, and adult color sometimes can be completely different things. They appear to both be blue, perhaps splash. Since you got quite the mix of colors in the parents you may just have to wait and see what they end up. They are cute. That much I am positive on.

 

[Silkies4everr]

Chick color, and adult color sometimes can be completely different things. They appear to both be blue, perhaps splash. Since you got quite the mix of colors in the parents you may just have to wait and see what they end up. They are cute. That much I am positive on.

Fairly sure the mother is black based but it will be interesting to see how they feather out. Thank you for your help.

 

[Silkies4everr]

Chick color, and adult color sometimes can be completely different things. They appear to both be blue, perhaps splash. Since you got quite the mix of colors in the parents you may just have to wait and see what they end up. They are cute. That much I am positive on.

Current feather growth of the white chick. Bit hard to see but it has a darker stripe through the middle of its wing. The other chick is feathering in as a pale blue however.

 

[Slothinc]

Beautiful chicks! Will be interesting to see how they turn out!

 

[NagemTX]

Current feather growth of the white chick. Bit hard to see but it has a darker stripe through the middle of its wing. The other chick is feathering in as a pale blue however.
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The striping on the wing will go away. I had one just like that and it ended up mostly solid blue with a bit of leakage in the hackles.

 

[Silkies4everr]

The striping on the wing will go away. I had one just like that and it ended up mostly solid blue with a bit of leakage in the hackles.

Yeah, he just started growing in crest feathers, so far just about everything is white but I think he'll end up being splash, he has a few feathers on his breast that are a blueish color.

I did compare the mother to a cockerel she hatched earlier who I know is blue based with dun and to another female of the same breed. Looks like she's blue based as well.

He did have some toes die two or three weeks back due to it being cold out and his hobble being a bit too tight, I did notice in time to save his feet thankfully. His right foot is less severe and that foot should be fine, only lost the inside toe and the middle toe tip and still walks on that foot fine. On his left foot he has three toes out of five left, his inner one and then the back one and extra toe. I'm thinking he'll develop a pressure sore from walking on the foot because it's not evenly balanced, he's basically putting all the weight on the toe stumps. So if he does make it to adulthood I'm going to see if a friend of mine can 3D print a brace or something for his foot to help spread out the weight on it and reduce his risk of a pressure sore.

 

[Silkies4everr]

Looks like a splash! Not entirely sure but I think he could have dun, although some splash chickens do have paler blue color. Didn't get a photo of it but some of his saddle feathers are coming in a blueish color.

His sister here looks like she's just platinum. So far I think it's a pullet because I haven't seen any saddle feathers yet but that doesn't mean they won't randomly show up.

 

[Slothinc]

They are so pretty!!

 

[Silkies4everr]

They are so pretty!!

Thank you