Silkie thread!

[kssilkiemama]

Well, I am starting all over again after losing several birds last year, then with being in school I just didn't have time for them. I had two blue hens left and a splash roo. I promised a little 4H girl last year that when I had chicks she could have some. I was truly beginning to sweat it when I was down to two birds but they came through and hatched some of the oddest colored birds I have seen. Two ended up white. Yeah. I have no idea. I thought at first they were just really a light splash without a lot of marking but nope. Then one ended up a dirty white almost a cream, then two splash and a blue. So then they hatched another brood in the last month. One appears black, three again appear white, two blues and three splash. I am really confused on this. At first the white ones with just a few spots I thought, hmmm, they must be paint butttttt....I don't have any paints and the charts don't show that is possible. So I have another hen sitting on a small clutch and can't wait to find out what her colors are.

Any ideas? These are literally the only birds on my place so no there is no chance "something got in there"....

 

[Hinotori]

Well, I am starting all over again after losing several birds last year, then with being in school I just didn't have time for them. I had two blue hens left and a splash roo. I promised a little 4H girl last year that when I had chicks she could have some. I was truly beginning to sweat it when I was down to two birds but they came through and hatched some of the oddest colored birds I have seen. Two ended up white. Yeah. I have no idea. I thought at first they were just really a light splash without a lot of marking but nope. Then one ended up a dirty white almost a cream, then two splash and a blue. So then they hatched another brood in the last month. One appears black, three again appear white, two blues and three splash. I am really confused on this. At first the white ones with just a few spots I thought, hmmm, they must be paint butttttt....I don't have any paints and the charts don't show that is possible. So I have another hen sitting on a small clutch and can't wait to find out what her colors are.

Any ideas? These are literally the only birds on my place so no there is no chance "something got in there"....

Recessive white can hide for ages until two carriers are bred. It's a pain to get rid of.

 

[kssilkiemama]

Recessive white can hide for ages until two carriers are bred. It's a pain to get rid of.

I am going to try to get some pictures in a day or two for you guys to tell me. I have always only had blue, black, white and splash but I lost all of my white and black ones.

 

[kssilkiemama]

Recessive white can hide for ages until two carriers are bred. It's a pain to get rid of.

Question...Does a porcelain look like a lighter blue with maybe a hint of red/tan feathers around the upper body? I have never branched out before but this is what it looks like. And the white one looks like an Idabel, it is like a white body with like a peachy tan discoloration around the cape and towards the head but it isn't significantly pronounced like buff or a red. At first it looked "dirty" but the more I look at it, I am really baffled. I did hatch a few eggs last year and I know this sounds bad but I thought my rooster was a splash but the more I look at him, I think he is porcelain. :/ His light gray feathers almost look like they have a tan reflection on them but man I just don't know.

 

[TattooedChicks]

Little stinker is growing up so fast, though I'm noticing some hard feathers on the wings. But as long as it's a healthy critter I won't sweat the small stuff.

 

[Hinotori]

Little stinker is growing up so fast, though I'm noticing some hard feathers on the wings. But as long as it's a healthy critter I won't sweat the small stuff.

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Wings look pretty normal to me

 

[TattooedChicks]

Wings look pretty normal to me

So having some feather structure is normal? I thought these funny birds were all cotton candy fluff through and through. Thanks!

 

[Hinotori]

Question...Does a porcelain look like a lighter blue with maybe a hint of red/tan feathers around the upper body? I have never branched out before but this is what it looks like. And the white one looks like an Idabel, it is like a white body with like a peachy tan discoloration around the cape and towards the head but it isn't significantly pronounced like buff or a red. At first it looked "dirty" but the more I look at it, I am really baffled. I did hatch a few eggs last year and I know this sounds bad but I thought my rooster was a splash but the more I look at him, I think he is porcelain. :/ His light gray feathers almost look like they have a tan reflection on them but man I just don't know.

Grayish at hatch I think. I had the lavender gene sneak into part of my partridge flock and the chicks hatch out a greyish tan with ghosting of chipmunk stripes.

I don't breed for porcelain so can't answer most of the questions on it. It's buff with lavender genes and standardized. I'm not sure if silkies have the mille fleur pattern like other porcelain chickens.

 

[Hinotori]

So having some feather structure is normal? I thought these funny birds were all cotton candy fluff through and through. Thanks!

The wing feathers have a bit of structure.

 

[kssilkiemama]

Here is a picture of one of the young ones that hatched in the first hatch of 7. He is a really light blue/grey with this shadowing of tan. He is about 13 weeks old. The darker picture has a shadow making him look a little darker. His mom is a blue, his dad is this same color with the shadow of tan coloring but he is a really light gray almost silver. What color is he? Good, bad or indifferent. I don't care, I just need to know.