Show me Buff Isabel

[catwalk]

I am trying to figure out what color my Silkie hen is, and the closest I can come up with is Buff Isabel, a buff/ lavender combo. I have basic high school AP understanding of genetics, but my eyes glaze over when I read "allelespeak". I'm interested in finding out what color Phyllis is and if she is a decent example of her color. I also want to see pictures of everyone's buff isabel, because I think it's very interesting. Thanks!

She has a sort of barring on her wings, saddle, and hackles. Individual feathers look like rusty waterstains. Big orange speckles on her chest. Her crest and feet are very smoky, like blue or grey (someone called it pewter), but I don't know if it would be called lavender. She does have some greyness in her wings, too. I'll try to get some good closeups, but she's brooding an infertile egg and a golf ball right now

, and I don't want to disturb her much; it's gonna take a lot of focus to hatch those things!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

My avatar is isabel, which is a lavender diluted buff. Most of the silkie breeders call this porcelain. Yours looks closer to a true porcelain. Can you send me a larger version of the photo as an attachment--email to [email protected]? Also a photo of an individual feather if you can, against a contrasting background?

The "smokey" areas are where she would be black if not for lavender dilution.

She is VERY exciting!!!

 

[catwalk]

Yaay! I was hoping you'd read this! I searched the internet, and I saw your name connected with this color on the Classroom at the Coop. I also thought your avatar looked very similar. Phyllis was with a rooster, when I got her, that looked a bit like that. The cock was sold the next day at swap meet

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[blackclownfish16]

She is beautiful! I love her color, not that I know what it is....haha.

 

[hinkjc]

It almost looks like barring or cuckoo. Very pretty!

 

[catwalk]

Even if it's not a Silkie, I'd like to see more Isabel. I've seen some in phesants and game birds before. I would like to see where else it shows up.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

These are lots of photos and discussion on Classroom-At-The-Coop's genetics forum.

 

[Mahonri]

Interesting.

 

[tdhenson86]

I know it has been years since you posted this, but I believe your chicken is an Isabel Partridge. Not that it helps now.