puzzling lav/blue/splash/buff silkie colors New Chick!

[ShysCreations]

Well, this has me thinking...Gator

who I thought was a lavendar
has been hanging with splash, buff and blue/buff hens. There are no solid blue hens. The buff/blue look smoky or smutty colored

Our very first chick hatched from them, and its a dark blue baby.

So, its very possible he bred a buff/blue hen and I guess her blue dominated phenotypically to produce a blue chick split to lav.

 

[nzpouter]

a lavender is usually a black with 2 dose of lv... put him accross a splash hen carrying no lavender you'll get blues.

 

[LilPeeps]

That chick is most likely the result of your male over the splash hen. Breeding splash to black will produce 100% blues. In this case, since the male is a lav, the chick is also split lav. If that chick came from a buff hen, the down of the chick would be much different. If it turns out to be a female, breed her back to the male for 50% lav, 50% split lav offspring (although 50% of the chicks will also be blue, so you may get lav birds, that also have a copy of the blue gene).