Silkies Of A Different Color

[peepblessed]

I am totally new to chicks (well 1 month in) I have one silkie Sunny she is approx 5 weeks old. The breeder said she would be black,,,but I am thinking no. It is weird though because I saw all of his adult silkies and they were all solid colors...and thoughts

I think you are going to have a beautiful chicken, though it appears to be a silkie cross. Pretty color. I don't know what it would be called.

 

[JesikaD01]

a silkie crossed with another type of chicken or with another color chicken?

 

[Aschenfire]

Silkie cross (with another type of chicken)...I was going to say maybe a gold laced or something similar in color. The color could also change with it's first real molt, too. But that little thing is for sure a cross between a Silkie and something else. Did the breeder have other birds? Or maybe a neighboring chicken came a-callin'?

 

[peepblessed]

a silkie crossed with another type of chicken or with another color chicken?

Yes, another kind of chicken. Your chick has normal feathering on most of its body. Your chick also may have 4 toes. Silkies have 5.Here is a 5 week old silkie chick for comparison.

 

[Whittni]

I like my silver Partridge buddy in the back of this
picture. That was very new to me when I got him.

 

[JesikaD01]

yes he definetly had other chickens but they were all seperated by type

I am kinda ******!should I contact the breeder? It was supposed to be a pure breed silkie

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Yes, contact the breeder and explain that the bird is not pure silkie.

 

[Gardeningmama]

a silkie crossed with another type of chicken or with another color chicken?

The feathering that is coming in looks very much like my Buff Brahma pullet. I know it's too early to really tell, but maybe they have a Brahma Roo that jumped the fence?

 

[JesikaD01]

he emailed me back and said one day a buyers kid let the americanas out while the silkies were out but he did not think they mated...but he was wrong!

 

[Paulajon]

I have some pictures of one of my silkies that I am not sure what the color would be called . I think he is a Roo, he is 8-9 weeks old. When I got him around 2 weeks old he was all buff colored and was called a buff by the lady I got him from. after a few weeks he turned white, then started getting a ginger red color along with a couple of dark spots, near tail and on head. His left wing has a partride color feather in it , the other wing is different colored. he has dark and red coming in on his head and neck and some lighter buff in other areas if anyone could help me figure out his coloring, or what the coloring would be called. I welcome all opinions and thoughts thanks.