Silkies Of A Different Color

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: It looks white to me. Doesn't look splash.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

HI! This is my little boy "Pot Pie". He is about 5 months old. He has a few black spashes throughout but harder to see in the picture. What color would you say he is??? He was hatched out of an egg that was labeled paint. Please all opinions are welcome, I'd really like to know what color to say he is.

He is a paint with a lot of the champagne off-colour. Most are breeding away from the champagne off-colouring toward a bright white.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: The polish is a girl, and I don;t see a silkie, either.

 

[moomoodiddy]

It looks white to me.  Doesn't look splash.

yea mine r still white at 8 weeks ;(

 

[moomoodiddy]

What color is this considered? I bought him as a Splash, but he looks more like a Paint to me! Any suggestions??? Thanks!

i say paint.... whoever sold him needs to become more edumacated LOL

 

[moomoodiddy]

She is talking about using a black, so there shouldn't be an issue.  If you used a blue or splash you could get blue paints (and splash paints in a second generation).

oh blue and red paints r so perty but wont the blues just end up splash? after breeding for a while

 

[moomoodiddy]

Chocolate pullet: Chocolate partridge cockerel: Both are dun based.

they kind of look blue partridgey ... to me

 

[ihavechickens2]

yea mine r still white at 8 weeks ;(

mine are to

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Are you talking appearance or genetics? Blue paints could look similar to splash if the birds have lots of small spots, but not if they have fewer, large spots. Splash paints would have splashy spots, and I think Sigi said in her book that they tend to have more, but smaller spots....

I do not think red paint is possible. Show me an adult bird (not juvenile feathering) that has random red spots on a white background and I'll believe. But all the posted photos I have seen are juvenile feathering, that shows the way red typically comes in for that gender (usually males).

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: No hint of blue if you look at them in person, just a light to medium chocolately brown, and I know from their breeding that they are I^D/i+ bl+/bl+ The cockerel also has Pg.