Silkies Of A Different Color

[Fur N Feathers]

Thanks fur and feather the gray vs. silver makes since to me. Thanks. Not familiar with chinchilla coloring, looks like I'll add that to my list of colors to find, with champane. And go back and do some back reading on this thread.
I agree with you about sonoran, I'll try my best to give my option when folks are out looking for it. but. It's soooo much nicer to hear from someone that has the knowledge and experience to back it up. And It dosent hurt that she has such a clear and concise manor of shareing her knowledge.
Just to help make a decision on coloring, there are 4 different birds in the photos I posted earlyer the newly hatched the not full grown chick and the hen. They have been hatching out fairly consectanty so i thought it would be agood way to show progression of the color. The hen is a bit dirty and dusty ( she didnt want a bath before going broody) but the color dosent look like the pictures of the grays I've see on line. Earlyer this summer I got the chick in the last photo. And even as a chick it don't look the same. ( when the last bird in the photo was a baby it looked a lot like Carolina hens chick). What i think grays are ment to look like. Not the white with black stripes I've been getting. As far as I know there hasn't been any cuckoo in any of the parents breeding, or chocolate or dun. But it's about Iimposible to track lineage back to far. The one obvious connection is they are all offspring from my columbian rooster. Starting to think its the Colombian gene restricting some of the middle gray tones and leaving the palest grays and darkest blacks or grays???? But that's just my unproven theorie right now.
Thanks agin

I'm not experienced enough for any qualified color statements, but I can guess. I just like participating! Ha! Ha!

Okay, she said that these are the birds she started out with; gray and porcelean:

And these are examples of what she created:

She's calling this champagne. So pretty!

Very, very pretty!

This is a champagne paint bred by Deb Steinberg. He just keeps getting better and better. He's about 3 years old now. In hte second photo he is with a couple of dun-based chocolate hens.

Just GORGEOUS!!!! Do these reproduce their color?

CarolinaHen I am going to say your little chick is partridge. Very cute!!!

 

[Theresa sla]

This is a champagne paint bred by Deb Steinberg. He just keeps getting better and better. He's about 3 years old now. In hte second photo he is with a couple of dun-based chocolate hens.

so is the goal of your project to get the chocolate in a lighter shade or a different hue all together?

and if porcelain is buff and lavender, then to get a champagne it would mainly be the gray silkie color, lightened up do to the lavender gene?
they are just amazing looking birds both the champagne and chocolate

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: I have chocolates in with him to get chocolate spots. One more step towards IDing the genetics of paint.

Dun reproduces like blue. One copy is chocolate, two is khaki and zero is black. Khaki is more even than splash. Like blue, dun expresses in a range of depths of colour. And silver/gold ground makes a different in hue.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: None of these birds have any lav at all. The goal of having the chocoates in with a champagne paint is a chocolate paint: a paint with chocolate spots.

The theory is that the champagne colouring is a result of gold ground. Possibly with additional modifiers. By replacing the gold with silver, the ground colour clears up.

These are two entirely separate projects, and would not work well together.

 

[PsycoPeep]

My eggs came in the mail today! Woohoo!!! I got: 4 BUFR (buff/red? She keeps her buffs & reds in together), 2 BLSP (blue splash?), 2 gray, 2 porcelean, 2 paint, and 2 paint black. She must have 2 dif. pens w/paints if she knows which eggs have a blk in there w/them? IDK. But anyways...I'm really eggcited about them and can't wait to see who hatches out! I ordered 12, recieved 14. 1 of the eggs has a small crack or fracture, is it still ok to put in? Or is it compromised, now?

 

[BetsyOK]

Seeing the above picture, I feel I have a champagne paint showgirl cockerel. He came from the same lines Deb and Bren were working with. I just assumed he is a "smutty" paint with only one or two paint markings. His mother is a very nice paint from Bren's flock and his father is a nice white showgirl roo. What should I breed him with?

 

[Fur N Feathers]

My eggs came in the mail today! Woohoo!!! I got: 4 BUFR (buff/red? She keeps her buffs & reds in together), 2 BLSP (blue splash?), 2 gray, 2 porcelean, 2 paint, and 2 paint black. She must have 2 dif. pens w/paints if she knows which eggs have a blk in there w/them? IDK. But anyways...I'm really eggcited about them and can't wait to see who hatches out! I ordered 12, recieved 14. 1 of the eggs has a small crack or fracture, is it still ok to put in? Or is it compromised, now?

Melt a little wax to seal the crack PsycoPeep. Sometimes they will hatch - nothing to lose if you try and it does, right?

I'm excited for you and can't wait until they hatch! WooHoo!!!!

 

[Fur N Feathers]

Seeing the above picture, I feel I have a champagne paint showgirl cockerel. He came from the same lines Deb and Bren were working with. I just assumed he is a "smutty" paint with only one or two paint markings. His mother is a very nice paint from Bren's flock and his father is a nice white showgirl roo. What should I breed him with?

What would you like to get Betsy? More like him or black paint? I think a black hen might give you a percentage of black spot paints. Looks like the lady that PsycoPeep got her eggs from might be using porcelain and a light blue or gray with her rooster and getting champagne. Most of us aren't going to have the exotic chocolate or dun hens to use.

 

[Theresa sla]

Seeing the above picture, I feel I have a champagne paint showgirl cockerel. He came from the same lines Deb and Bren were working with. I just assumed he is a "smutty" paint with only one or two paint markings. His mother is a very nice paint from Bren's flock and his father is a nice white showgirl roo. What should I breed him with?

love to see pictures he sounds exciting . it might give everyone more of an idea what would be nice to pair him with.

 

[Theresa sla]

None of these birds have any lav at all. The goal of having the chocoates in with a champagne paint is a chocolate paint: a paint with chocolate spots.

Awesome so your goal is for a chocolate chip silkie