Silkie thread!

[TAMMACLEAN]

My newest babies

I'm hoping for more soon.

 

[PsycoPeep]

Sheeshshe - those darker ones w/the red heads are gorgeous!!

 

[aoxa]

aoxa

Absolutely beautiful! Bernese Mountain dog???

Yes he is a BMD Thank you!

 

[Sanna]

oh my goodness this is adorable

I have a little silkie chick that does the exact same thing! she LOVES napping in the food dish!

Chicks are so funny. They find the funniest places for naps. I guess all baby animals do the same... Even kids!

Hello everyone! This is my pair of 6.5 week old white silkies... I suspect I have a pair or maybe two pullets..

Here are a few pictures of the two as a pair:
I think the one on the left is a pullet and the one on the right a cockerel


left pullet right cockerel?


left pullet right cockerel:



Suspected pullet:





Suspected Cockerel or MAYBE pullet:








please let me know what your thoughts are

Very hard to tell at 6.5 weeks. They could both be pullets, they could both be cockerels, or you could have one of each. Time will tell.

 

[PsycoPeep]

Aoxa - So then what you're saying is that splash is blue. No matter what. I guess I'm thinking that splash would be like the broken colors in rabbits. A broken black is black & white, a broken chocolate is chocolate & white, broken red, broken opal... Or like for hamsters a mottled blue is blue & white, So what you're saying is it isn't white mixed with another color? Guess that's how I was thinking. But - at any rate - here are pics of my bantam Cochins that I picked up on Saturday. 2 black splash, 1 blue splash. Just so you know what I'm talking about. To me, that isn't lighter & darker shades of blue, the 2 on the right are clearly black. Know what I mean?

 

[PsycoPeep]

That should be "No matter what?" with a question mark. I'm asking.
I'm brand new to chickens, so I'm still learning. But I have heard people say black splash and/or blue splash, just not any other color. Can you get red splash? Or any other color?

 

[blondie34]

Chicks are so funny. They find the funniest places for naps. I guess all baby animals do the same... Even kids!


Very hard to tell at 6.5 weeks. They could both be pullets, they could both be cockerels, or you could have one of each. Time will tell.

I'm so impatient lol I hope I do not have two cockerels .. I already have way too many cockerels!

 

[JenS9]

That should be "No matter what?" with a question mark. I'm asking.
I'm brand new to chickens, so I'm still learning. But I have heard people say black splash and/or blue splash, just not any other color. Can you get red splash? Or any other color?

I've only heard of blue splash, myself, but I'm new too!

 

[NYREDS]

Splash results from a Blue to Blue mating. Such a mating also produces Blacks. Splash can vary greatly in appearance with some showing quite a bit of colour & others appearing almost white. There is just one splash, no Blue Splash, no Black Splash, just Splash.

 

[aoxa]

Aoxa - So then what you're saying is that splash is blue. No matter what. I guess I'm thinking that splash would be like the broken colors in rabbits. A broken black is black & white, a broken chocolate is chocolate & white, broken red, broken opal... Or like for hamsters a mottled blue is blue & white, So what you're saying is it isn't white mixed with another color? Guess that's how I was thinking. But - at any rate - here are pics of my bantam Cochins that I picked up on Saturday. 2 black splash, 1 blue splash. Just so you know what I'm talking about. To me, that isn't lighter & darker shades of blue, the 2 on the right are clearly black. Know what I mean?

Yes two blacks and what appears to be just a regular blue.

I know nothing about rabbit genetics, so maybe we can help one another out in that aspect Trying to figure out what to call a few of my rabbit colours!



Splash Ameraucana.



Believe it or not, Blue above.. Everyone insisted she was black. All my blue Ameraucanas looked black!



Until they feathered out. You tell them Nora!! ;P

Splash results from a Blue to Blue mating. Such a mating also produces Blacks. Splash can vary greatly in appearance with some showing quite a bit of colour & others appearing almost white. There is just one splash, no Blue Splash, no Black Splash, just Splash.

Thank you!!!