Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

[featherbaby]

Thanks Judy, I'm trying to get some experience distinguishing the colors and your explanation helped.

Now I have another one for you to tell me what color it is. This one is from Bobbi Porto . She looks much lighter than the picture.

 

[brenTx]

Not to contridict but Yes....

It isn't quite as simple as "lav to lav = lav

It is that simple IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE. Full lavender to full lavender gives you 100% lavender.​

 

[BetsyOK]

If you breed your lovely blue pullet to a black/lav split roo, the ONLY way you'll get any lavs is IF she is actually a lav split. Then you MIGHT get 25% lav. If not, you'll get blacks or blues with a small number POSSIBLY carrying the lav gene, but you'll have no way to know.

 

[Elite Silkies]

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I think there could also be some "mutt" colors with that combination.

 

[jen5680]

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That looks like a blue partridge maybe!! I LOVE that color!! You can send her to me!!!

 

[BetsyOK]

Yes, I forgot to mention "mutts." And in my experience, the mutts usually carry the lavender gene.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

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It is that simple IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE. Full lavender to full lavender gives you 100% lavender.

Exactly...agree 100%. The reason I said it wasn't that simple is because of so many people cross breeding and then trying to get lavs from the crosses.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Featherbaby,

The pullet above looks like either a blue partridge or a blue with red leakage??? It's hard to put a variety name on a bird that may be a cross. She may get more gold on her as she molts and gets in her adult feathers in. In that case I would say blue partridge. JMHO...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Beautiful! But I would say the porcelain looks more like lavender partridge; see the penciling?

I've never heard of a lavender partridge. What makes it so? I have a similar one, just a shade darker than hers. I thought it was a porcelain too. Please define 'penciling' for me?

There is more to a porcelain than simply having a bird that has both lavender and isabel colouring. That is one of the reasons that judges are often rather annoyed at the use of the term "porcelain" when applied to a silkie. Look at a porcelain d'uccle (probably the most common breed available in porcelain). THAT is what a porcelain silkie should look like as far as colouring goes.


Take a partridge and breed in two copies of lavender, which will dilute both red and black pigment. Penciling is the pattern seen in partridges and silver (penciled) varieties. Here are some examples, although not lavender:

The photos of complete birds are from Feathersite (the Plymouth Rock and Wyandotte breed sections), and the pattern closeup is from the Poultry Genetics for Exhibition Breeders website.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Ya know, I have wondered that myself! It does appear that way, doesn't it? My thought was it may have come from the Lavender side of things. If I look closely at my lavs feathers some almost have a penciled striping on them. The gray definitely dominates. Not all of the chicks have that penciled "cuckoo" appearance. So far this little one is my fav, and of course is looking more rooish every day

Juvenile penciling can look like barring. It is not.