Silkie thread!

[wvchix]

I'd say its a cockerel but I don't think its a silkie mix at all. Perhaps a Sultan mix? They also have 5 toes and crests. Those pink legs and toes, along with the pink skin at the head don't look like they have any silkie influence at all.....

Do Sultans have these kind of feathers?

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

I LOVE this guy. I'm in awe every time you share his pictures. If you breed more like him, remember me!

Sherbert has blown my mind. Not only is his color eye popping making him some super eye candy, but he is blossoming into a very well built cockerel and very typey. i fall more in love with him everyday, and he is such a sweetheart on top!

 

[ChickensXOXO]

Do Sultans have these kind of feathers?

Here's my (hatchery) Sultan

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Do Sultans have these kind of feathers?

if I had to guess it is a mix breed. Sultans have tails like d'uccles, long and pointed also they typically have slate or blueish legs...

My guess on mixes : sultan X cochin or could even be cochin X silkie though the lack of any dark pigmentation does not lend me to thinking it has silkie in it. All my silkie crosses if not having completely dark skin, have patches of dark skin somewhere (usually the head or the legs) I had a few mixes hatch that half of one leg was black, and others where their whole skin color was black, and others that the legs were yellow but the skin on the body and face was dark. I never had one hatch with completely yellow skin and legs. But I guess it could happen.

 

[peepblessed]

Sherbert has blown my mind. Not only is his color eye popping making him some super eye candy, but he is blossoming into a very well built cockerel and very typey. i fall more in love with him everyday, and he is such a sweetheart on top!

Looks like that blue partridge you have picked out for him will be perfect!! Can't wait to see his babies!

 

[peepblessed]

Sherbert has blown my mind. Not only is his color eye popping making him some super eye candy, but he is blossoming into a very well built cockerel and very typey. i fall more in love with him everyday, and he is such a sweetheart on top!

Question! When you are working on a project color, how do you come up with a name for the color? Can you just invent one or does it have to be an established color in another breed?

 

[ChickensXOXO]

Sherbert has blown my mind. Not only is his color eye popping making him some super eye candy, but he is blossoming into a very well built cockerel and very typey. i fall more in love with him everyday, and he is such a sweetheart on top!

Aww... I want one like him so bad! I googled your city, you're about 4 hours from me!

 

[peepblessed]

My latest addition - 5 week old lavender Silkie (from Catdance)

Love your beautiful pictures!!! Here is a photo of my lavender at about that age. Also from Catdance.

 

[Basel]

at the very beginning when the feathers start erupting out of the quils they do resemble normal feathering, but quickly as they progress you can tell the difference between barbed and silkied...From a hatchery there is always the potential that they may have made a screw up...I've gotten wrong breeds and even definite mixes from a hatchery before, so give it another week, or better yet post pictures!

Pictures!

Thanks both for offering to help! I just took some pictures and will post them as soon as my cell phone sends them to me.

Thank you!

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Question! When you are working on a project color, how do you come up with a name for the color? Can you just invent one or does it have to be an established color in another breed?

**I think** (don't hold me to it, its just my understanding) it depends on the genetics behind the color. if the genetic and visible look of the color is like that of an already established color - thats what it has to be called.
Then you have the other side of the case - those that are called a Standardized color but genetically and visibly aren't the same. (Porcelain Silkies for example) as the porcelains are bred now - they can't be called porcelains in shows or when/if the color is ever recognized. Because porcelain is already a recognized color and pattern, and silkies at this point the porcelain has no pattern to it, and does not resemble the actual color thats seen in D'uccles or OEGBs (for example)