Silkies Of A Different Color

[Sonoran Silkies]

Someone had babies that started off white crested black, but turned all black by the time they were grown. This was probably 8 or 10 years ago...Eddie Travers,..maybe? I remember thinking the youngsters were really striking.

 

[ihavechickens2]

Someone had babies that started off white crested black, but turned all black by the time they were grown.  This was probably 8 or 10 years ago...Eddie Travers,..maybe?  I remember thinking the youngsters were really striking.

I bet. Do you now what he used to get them???

 

[peepblessed]

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

Paint and splash can look very similar. I have some splash that have a totally black wing feather, dark spots and very white back ground. Here's a picture of Pepper. Sometimes you have to know their heritage.

 

[peepblessed]

OK PeepBlessed, I won't! I love how the babies change so much - it seems like daily. Here are some pictures I took yesterday of my little green head (the head isn't so green anymore). There is a light blue gray coming in on her body and wings now.

How do you like the "do"?

I can't remember what you said the parents were. It's really looking self-blue. Very pretty!

 

[Fur N Feathers]

I can't remember what you said the parents were. It's really looking self-blue. Very pretty!

Well you know I have my pretty boy, the CatDance self blue, but I don't think it was him as he has just now come into his manhood. I believe this was Daddy:












I think this is Momma:















Daddy was recently killed in a possom attack, so I hope I do have some good quality babies from him. I do not know their backgrounds really - he came from a blue/splash pen and she was a rescue that had supposedly a splash daddy and a buff mother. That's why I thought the baby might be splash. I just don't grasp the chicken genetics, because the Arabian gray genetics keep getting in there muddling everything up.

I think he was very typey and had an extreme crest for a rooster - she is lacking in the crest a bit - but both have very nice round fluffy butts and excellent feet feathering. She doesn't have any of the red coloring, just nice and dusty from a dirt bath.

 

[peepblessed]

Well you know I have my pretty boy, the CatDance self blue, but I don't think it was him as he has just now come into his manhood. I believe this was Daddy:












I think this is Momma:















Daddy was recently killed in a possom attack, so I hope I do have some good quality babies from him. I do not know their backgrounds really - he came from a blue/splash pen and she was a rescue that had supposedly a splash daddy and a buff mother. That's why I thought the baby might be splash. I just don't grasp the chicken genetics, because the Arabian gray genetics keep getting in there muddling everything up.

I think he was very typey and had an extreme crest for a rooster - she is lacking in the crest a bit - but both have very nice round fluffy butts and excellent feet feathering. She doesn't have any of the red coloring, just nice and dusty from a dirt bath.

Ahhhh. It may be a very light grey.

 

[PsycoPeep]

This thread looks interesting! I'll have to dig thru this when I get back from work!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Forget gene names (unless you know the scientific ones such as MC1R, PMEL17, TYR, etc.) as the same name can mean something entirely different from one species to another. And species do not all have the same colour/pattern genes. First thing to know is that in avians the hen determines gender of offspring, unlike in mammals. Splash is two copies of the blue gene. To be splash, a bird MUST inherit blue from mama AND from daddy. Girls do not always show primary pattern red, and if they do, it will be on their breasts, not their wings/shoulders.

 

[peepblessed]

Well you know I have my pretty boy, the CatDance self blue, but I don't think it was him as he has just now come into his manhood. I believe this was Daddy:












I think this is Momma:















Daddy was recently killed in a possom attack, so I hope I do have some good quality babies from him. I do not know their backgrounds really - he came from a blue/splash pen and she was a rescue that had supposedly a splash daddy and a buff mother. That's why I thought the baby might be splash. I just don't grasp the chicken genetics, because the Arabian gray genetics keep getting in there muddling everything up.

I think he was very typey and had an extreme crest for a rooster - she is lacking in the crest a bit - but both have very nice round fluffy butts and excellent feet feathering. She doesn't have any of the red coloring, just nice and dusty from a dirt bath.

Here's a five week old self-blue chick. You can see what I mean about the pin feathers.

 

[Fur N Feathers]

Forget gene names (unless you know the scientific ones such as MC1R, PMEL17, TYR, etc.) as the same name can mean something entirely different from one species to another. And species do not all have the same colour/pattern genes. First thing to know is that in avians the hen determines gender of offspring, unlike in mammals. Splash is two copies of the blue gene. To be splash, a bird MUST inherit blue from mama AND from daddy. Girls do not always show primary pattern red, and if they do, it will be on their breasts, not their wings/shoulders.

So, my splash hen has to have blue parents. What about splash parents? Doesn't splash to splash always get splash, but lighter each time? I thought I read that somewhere but now I am doubting myself.

Here's a five week old self-blue chick. You can see what I mean about the pin feathers.

Yes, I see that does look very dark!

Here is my little green head on the far right and a look-a-like on the far left from a different hatch:





It has wings that are darker, but pretty close.

It is a week or two younger.


How about pink wings now?

The younger baby again (silver partridge because of the barring?):