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I just have to add the pic I just took of my Silkie hen with 3 of her 4 Salmon Faverolles x Silkie cross chicks!!! The other chick is with the other hen in her nest box!! LOL!!!
I cropped out the large part of their pen and have just the cubby part in the background.

 
That chick is one of around 20 eggs I hatched in my incubator. They are all from a purebred Salmon Faverolles roo and purebred Silkie hens. There may be another with it in the box brooder, I haven't checked that closely. I have not been keeping Silkie roos and no one else around here has chickens.
I think it looks like it has Silkie feathers, too...but I didn't think they would show up from that cross?????
 
I have waited till these silkies got a little older before asking their color. I am wanting to clarify which ones I think are BLUE partridge and which ones are partridge. Thank you for any advice in advance!




This is all one bird. I believe he is male and I think a regular partridge.




These three are the same bird. I was thinking BLUE partridge and female.






These are pictures of my last bird. I think this might be a partridge. This one I am least for sure on when it comes to color and gender. I was thinking it was male.



Thanks again for any help. Sorry for all the pics but I was trying to get a good amount since sometimes pics doesn't show the true color.
 
I'm offering some eggs if anyone is interested.
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ESofVA said:
That chick is one of around 20 eggs I hatched in my incubator. They are all from a purebred Salmon Faverolles roo and purebred Silkie hens. There may be another with it in the box brooder, I haven't checked that closely. I have not been keeping Silkie roos and no one else around here has chickens.
I think it looks like it has Silkie feathers, too...but I didn't think they would show up from that cross?????
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huh, maybe it will look normal as an adult but show up looking silkied as a baby? Unless it's just regular feathers but they look a little shredded. Did your raise the hens yourself?
 
Hennyhandler said:
I have waited till these silkies got a little older before asking their color. I am wanting to clarify which ones I think are BLUE partridge and which ones are partridge. Thank you for any advice in advance!




This is all one bird. I believe he is male and I think a regular partridge.




These three are the same bird. I was thinking BLUE partridge and female.






These are pictures of my last bird. I think this might be a partridge. This one I am least for sure on when it comes to color and gender. I was thinking it was male.



Thanks again for any help. Sorry for all the pics but I was trying to get a good amount since sometimes pics doesn't show the true color.
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Hi, I was going to say I think all your birds looked like blue partridge to me - so I went out and looked at mine - and they looked lighter than I thought regular partridge would be too... so I don't know on the colors. The one beardless boy I have looks like a regular Ppartridge - but the two new ones sure have light fluff... and they are supposed to be regular Partridge too...

However, I agree - boy, girl, boy. I haven't seen any girls with that red, and I have a really dark girl over here (no red).
 

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