Silkie thread!

[wvchix]

Here's my (hatchery) Sultan

Wow! The look so much alike! Do you think mine's a roo?

 

[wvchix]

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.

Thanks.

It has a black beak and 5 toes. Does the tail look Silkie at all?

 

[ChickensXOXO]

Wow! The look so much alike! Do you think mine's a roo?

Sultans don't have single combs, so I'm having a harder time telling the gender of mine... though, I've been thinking a girl and a boy (I have two Sultan chicks). For yours with the single comb, it looks like a cockerel to me.

 

[peepblessed]

[COLOR=800000]**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)[/COLOR]

Is there already a recognised color for Sherbert?

 

[ChickensXOXO]

Thanks.

It has a black beak and 5 toes. Does the tail look Silkie at all?

Sultans have 5 toes as well.

 

[wvchix]

Sultans don't have single combs, so I'm having a harder time telling the gender of mine... though, I've been thinking a girl and a boy (I have two Sultan chicks). For yours with the single comb, it looks like a cockerel to me.

Mine's 4 weeks old. How old is yours?

 

[ChickensXOXO]

Mine's 4 weeks old. How old is yours?

About 10 weeks old now.

 

[SilverSilkie]

Is there already a recognised color for Sherbert?

Every 5 groundcolors (E - ER - eWh - eb - e+) can be made to Splash with 2 dosis of Blue.
Every groundcolor can be based on Silver or on gold, so you have 10 basic forms !
In Europe they are not recognized except for Italy, there the E/E Bl/Bl Silkie is recognized.

 

[wvchix]

Sultans don't have single combs, so I'm having a harder time telling the gender of mine... though, I've been thinking a girl and a boy (I have two Sultan chicks). For yours with the single comb, it looks like a cockerel to me.

If Sultans don't have single combs does that mean mine's not a Sultan?

 

[ChickensXOXO]

If Sultans don't have single combs does that mean mine's not a Sultan?

No, it could just be a mix.