Please tell me what color she is.... :idunno

[heritagebirds]

Blue? Lavender? Thank you for your help!!!

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Splash?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

She's actually lightly splashed. I had a very similar looking araucana, Cara'cana. Very sweet bird and a good mama hen.

 

[heritagebirds]

Thank you... What do you thinks her base color is? She is young, I got her as a peep with her 'rents last year, but is sitting on a pile of eggs like a champ.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Not sure which E-alleles araucanas tend to have. I do know they are available in duckwing, so maybe e+?

 

[heritagebirds]

Her Daddy is a golden Duckwing, but is silver where I would expect black

 

[chookster77]

Judging by the darker hackles and the darker feather shaft, I'd say she is blue.

Here is a nice guide from Australian master breeder, Kaz Ballea:

Lavender:

* Even shade throughout, in both genders (ie no colour sexual dimorphism)
* No Black at all on outer feather view
* Pale, whitish feather shafts on outer feather view
* Iridescent & darker shade of both lavender & gold on inside view of feathers & shafts.
* No red feathers at all (including gold leakage on a Silver bird)
* Sometimes poor feather quality (eg wing patches- pin feathers on roos, fret marks, stringy tail/sickle feathers)
* Recessive gene

Blue:

* Head, neck hackle/saddle a darker shade of Blue to body colour
* Sexually dimorphic (ie the roos have different colour characteristics to the hens)
* Flecks/patches of darker blue or black
* Dark feather shafts, usually similar shade to neck hackles
* Darker Lacing (on laced birds)
* Incompletely Dominant gene

The Blue/Lavenders look predominantly like Lavenders, but may have some traits of the Blues (eg darker blue flecks, darker feather shafts, etc).

Cheers,
The Chookster

 

[Henk69]

Blue.
Splashes of black are normal in blue.

 

[heritagebirds]

Thank you so much Chookster and Henks! I finally know what color she is...and a splash at that!

Thank you!

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Splash...some have darker areas like yours. Very pretty!!