Silkies Of A Different Color

[howfunkyisurchicken]

She appears to be a very light buff. Buffs are hard to get the coloring right on. They're supposed to be an all over even color, but a lot of them come out looking very light like your girl or very red.

She is beautiful though

 

[Penny Hen]

I have seen the buff head shifting into grey and then black in South American birds (EE, Quechua, Collanas, Huastecs). Not so much in the SA breeds that have been standardized but those who are landrace. This color pattern (don't know what you would call it) is not bred for in any SOP from any breed I know of. Body type looks Wyandotte. Maybe a EE/Wyandotte cross.
The silkie's color pattern is called Swartzkopt or Moorkopt (black head) in Germany. Some of their breeds have this as an official color.

Now that I think about it there may be a Lakenvelder in her background. That would give her the black head and tail.

 

[Caitlin_VT]

Color help? I don't believe is is possible for her to be porcelain because of her parentage... But what else is she? A splash partridge?

Her mother must be my blue hen with lots of red leakage (was patterned like a partridge when she was a chick) and her father is a blue partridge. The only other hen I have is a true blue partridge.

Father is top pic, probable mother bottom pic!

 

[Spongegirl]

oh wow! gorgeous! I keep saying that andalusian blues can be used to make porcelain or Isabel and everyone just says it will make a 'mess'...she is not mess...she is amazing.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

She is beautiful, and she does LOOK porcelain, but....

What everyone says is correct. Porcelain is not buff and blue. It is buff and lavender

Your blue partridges are lovely as well!

 

[Fur N Feathers]

I have a similarly colored pullet. This is she as a chick (the one in the rear).

She is the light gray booty here with the white wings.

This is she now:

As she got older a blue gray collar (or shawl as I call it) came in around the back of her neck and in front of her shoulders. I asked every so often if anyone on here could give me a color answer for her, and nobody could. But I just love her - she has been one of my favorite girls since she was born and still is! Sometimes I have to look twice because she looks so close in color to my porcelain hen! She is on the right below with my porcelain hen in the center front)

 

[Spongegirl]

She is beautiful, and she does LOOK porcelain, but....

What everyone says is correct. Porcelain is not buff and blue. It is buff and lavender

Your blue partridges are lovely as well!

BUT that is only because other people say so... not a standard. An andalusian can be so light to look self blue. Porcelain is what one guy decided to call HIS mix of buff lavender...people are following his recipe for said "porcelain" . The desired color is what you want to achieve no matter the recipe. Isabel is a color and not a recipe, so yes she is isabel or what some call porcelain. She makes my point that the color can be achieved this way.

 

[keesmom]

BUT that is only because other people say so... not a standard. An andalusian can be so light to look self blue. 

True. Though lavender will also dilute buff while Andalusian blue does not.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Porcelain and Isabel are both colors in D'Uccles, and they both use lavender, not blue.

Another difference is lavender breeds true, where as Andelusian blue does not (which is why you get blue, black and splash).

And, if you read back through the Silkie thread, you'll notice quite a few posts regarding porcelain Silkies not actually being porcelain, since they don't posses the correct mottling to be true porcelains and isabels.

Porcelain is a still a project in Silkies, but it should still follow a certain recipe, not just whatever you decide to throw into the mix....

 

[Spongegirl]

Doesn't andalusians have its own dilution power?

I have read everything I can find on the silkie "porcelain". I get it. I understand how the "porcelain" got brought into silkies. She has a porcelain colored bird from andalusian buff parents. Its not just anything goes. If "porcelain" (buff lavenders) would breed true it would be accepted, right? The recipe you speak of, self blue buffs, are what one guy said it is and invented a name for it...that is his recipe...not the only way this color can be achieved.