Silkie chick colors?

[Slothinc]

I would say that yes the lavender looking chick is definitely a blue - blues can be so tricksy like that!!! The other two I am just guessing on but the white one looks to be some sort of very light buff or tan color. I don’t think that it can be recessive white since some of the mature feathers are growing in darker, but I don’t know for sure. The third chick might be silkie partridge?? Again I don’t know much about partridge but it does seem like that is how they start to grow in. And that was the one with chipmunk stripes as a baby right?

Darling babies!!

 

[CrazyForMyPeeps802]

I would say that yes the lavender looking chick is definitely a blue - blues can be so tricksy like that!!! The other two I am just guessing on but the white one looks to be some sort of very light buff or tan color. I don’t think that it can be recessive white since some of the mature feathers are growing in darker, but I don’t know for sure. The third chick might be silkie partridge?? Again I don’t know much about partridge but it does seem like that is how they start to grow in. And that was the one with chipmunk stripes as a baby right?

Darling babies!!

Thank you! Blues can be such tricksters!! Yeah I'm very lost with the lightest colored one, it definitely isn't pure white and it does have some speckling on its wings feathers. It also had a very pale tan chipmunk strip and head spot as a baby. I'm very curious to see how it continues to feather in!
I do believe the third chick is a partridge! I'm not quite sure exactly what color partridge it'll be yet. Yes this was the one with the chipmunk strips!

They are such darling babies! And their broody mama Nova has done such an amazing job as a first time Mama!

Here's some top down collages from when they were babies and them now!

 

[Slothinc]

Sorry I meant to write that my guess was silver partridge! I think it autocorrected to silkie partridge lol! But since it had a brown stripe then I don’t know for sure - in silver partridge is it normally a gray stripe? Sorry I am not much help - I know almost nothing about partridge! But I would say that the two babies probably came from your partridge hen unless your lavender hen carries partridge also!

 

[CrazyForMyPeeps802]

Sorry I meant to write that my guess was silver partridge! I think it autocorrected to silkie partridge lol! But since it had a brown stripe then I don’t know for sure - in silver partridge is it normally a gray stripe? Sorry I am not much help - I know almost nothing about partridge! But I would say that the two babies probably came from your partridge hen unless your lavender hen carries partridge also!

That's ok! I'd be very happy if it is a Silver partridge!!! I've never hatched silver partridge chicks but from the research I've done they typically have a black or dark chipmunk strip, black facial markings, and some white markings. I have hatched blue silver partridge. I'll include a few pictures of her as a chick!
I collected and saved eggs for three days - six eggs total, two eggs collected each day. Only four developed and hatched but sadly one didn't make it (the one that passed looked like a silver partridge chick). So it is very possible that all the chipmunk stripped chicks came from my silver partridge hen. But at least one chick had to have come from my lavender hen, possibly the blue chick? Is it possible to get blue from lavender? I don't know a lot about lavender genetics. But if the blue chick was hers is there a possibility it might be split to lavender? I know there are black split to lavender. And I also know that most breeders do not want to mix blue into lavender.

I wish I could understand chicken genetics better but I have found it very overwhelming.

Thanks for all your help! I greatly appreciate it

Here's Nova my blue silver partridge as a chick!

 

[NatJ]

Is it possible to get blue from lavender? I don't know a lot about lavender genetics. But if the blue chick was hers is there a possibility it might be split to lavender? I know there are black split to lavender. And I also know that most breeders do not want to mix blue into lavender.

Lavender chickens can have the blue gene without it being obvious. So some lavenders do have blue, and many lavenders do not. If a lavender hen produces a blue chick, then you know she does have the blue gene.

Yes, many breeders try to avoid mixing blue and lavender, but some people do it anyway for various reasons.

 

[CrazyForMyPeeps802]

Lavender chickens can have the blue gene without it being obvious. So some lavenders do have blue, and many lavenders do not. If a lavender hen produces a blue chick, then you know she does have the blue gene.

Yes, many breeders try to avoid mixing blue and lavender, but some people do it anyway for various reasons.

Thank you! I'll definitely have to hatch some eggs that I know are hers. I don't know her parentage so there is definitely a possibility she has a blue gene.

That's really good to know.