Silkies Of A Different Color

[Fur N Feathers]

Do you have a picture of your boy when he was a chick? Would like to see how he looked back then.

Sure!

 

[Fur N Feathers]

and because i'm in a posting mood and this is the silkies of a different color thread, i hatched out a few of these kinds of chicks this year, not sure what to call them? they are out of my columbian silkie project. looks like the head and crest is coming in solid white. the wings and tail all in stripes. cant wait to see how they grow up

What a cutie!

 

[mylittlechicken]

Sure!

Mine looks more lavender on the back, wings, chest are cream colored. But it hatched just yesterday.
I like it a lot

 

[Fur N Feathers]

Mine looks more lavender on the back, wings, chest are cream colored. But it hatched just yesterday.
I like it a lot

He was a lot more lavender right after hatch with just a hint of gold, that's why I always thought he was porcelain. What color was yours marked?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Black cannot be split to paint. If it is out of a paint breeding, it didn't inherit the gene.

choc or dun?

 

[SilkiesnFrizzle]

What color would you call this boy? I believe the father of this boy was a Splash and there was Porcelain and/or Lav hens with the Splash roo, would it be Calico? Or just call it AOV.

 

[Aaisha]

well here is my pictures, although the silkie's are not mine

paint:


welll i am not sure about this one, it is a "barred silkie!"

well please not none of theese silkies are mine, i got these pics from the web

 

[mylittlechicken]

He was a lot more lavender right after hatch with just a hint of gold, that's why I always thought he was porcelain. What color was yours marked?

Mine have a lavender back and golden wings, head and chest.I will make a picture today and post it.

 

[Theresa sla]

What color would you call this boy? I believe the father of this boy was a Splash and there was Porcelain and/or Lav hens with the Splash roo, would it be Calico? Or just call it AOV.

Blue tort, or posable lavender tort. It would be hard to tell the differance between a very pale blue and lavender. Unless you where carefull with What eggs hatched from what pen and know your recipes. They tend to look at the tort coloring as a mistake and not desired. Becouse Its red leakage and kinda hard to get rid of. but I really like the looks of it. And why get rid of a nice color combo

 

[Theresa sla]

Black cannot be split to paint.  If it is out of a paint breeding, it didn't inherit the gene.  

choc or dun?

Thanks good to know!! I wasn't likeing the idea of takeing on a new roo. but tempted by the idea of a white bird with lovely patches of chocolate ( or brown) here and there. Looks like I'll stay away from paint project. So just to clearafiy its kinda like cuckoo if you don't see stripes it doesn't carry any hidden genes for it? Thanks for your help

Chocolate or dun is an excellent question!!!
And I would love to know for sure. But unforunutly I'm not sure. The hen was hatched from someone elses eggs, I wrote him with pictures of my hen and he said he had both chocolate hens and Roos running in projects and said she looks chocolate to him? But I know dun and chocolate can look identical and unless you know your recipe.
Looks like I will be breeding to see whitch she is.
Just to simplify, my understanding is Dun works basically the same as blue, as a diluter of black to brown and a double dose go's to make fawn or splash dun. So I will get a mix of dun and black in both sexes.
But chocolate is sex linked, so I would get all chocolate Roos and all black hens. From this pairing.
But I can be sure of anything unless I do the testing for myself. hoping she will be laying again soon so I can do that testing, she really is a lovely lady and just seems to Inprove in type everyday. She has been an Excellent mama this year too, hatched out an amazing 12 for 12 eggs on her first try and rasied everyone of that brood perfectly altought they don't exactly fit under her any more? Altought she still try's!!