Silkies Of A Different Color

[Caitlin_VT]

Carol -

My guesses
#1 - black with leakage
#2 - I guess porcelain? do you know the breeding?
#3 - blue partridge
#4 & #5 - also look like blue partridge. I would agree with gender assessment as of now!
#6 - dark buff

 

[carolsmith7878]

Carol -

My guesses
#1 - black with leakage
#2 - I guess porcelain? do you know the breeding?
#3 - blue partridge
#4 & #5 - also look like blue partridge. I would agree with gender assessment as of now!
#6 - dark buff

Thanks for responding!

I do not know the exact breeding of the porcelain, but he is a beauty (though I'm biased). The pics don't do him justice.

 

[Caitlin_VT]

I have 2 Porcelain pullets I hatched out this spring.. From blue partridge parents. I know this is not supposedly possible, but I don't know what the parent's backgrounds are. They are beautiful!

 

[blipit007]

Here are my Porcelains?? They are siblings. They don't look very porcelain / blue cream. What do you think?


This is Pickles, my 3.5 month old Roo.



This is Marbles, my 3.5 month old pullet

 

[Caitlin_VT]

They don't look porcelain, more blue actually. I posted pics of my "porcelain" above.

 

[Tricia5099]

so what exactly is a porcelain? I mean I have seen ohots and some are more buff based and others are blue based. so what im asking is whats the standard? (I know they aren't actually recognized)

 

[blipit007]

They don't look porcelain, more blue actually. I posted pics of my "porcelain" above.

Since they are still only 3.5 months old, do you think they will change much?

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Porcelain came about by mixing buff and lavender (self blue). Birds that are blue based are not true porcelains, they can look the part, but blue does not breed true and only dilutes black, where the lav will dilute buff. I hope that makes sense.

I had a couple of blue/buff mixes that very much looked like porcelains. Breed them together, however, and the blue becomes either blue, black or splash. Porcelains will carry the lav on when bred to each other or other lavenders.

Self blue and blue (Andalusian) are two very different colors. Self blue (why they call it that, I don't know, very confusing) is recessive and requires two copies to express.

I hope that helps

 

[Theresa sla]

Here are my Porcelains?? They are siblings. They don't look very porcelain / blue cream. What do you think?


This is Pickles, my 3.5 month old Roo.



This is Marbles, my 3.5 month old pullet

very pretty blues, they should stay about that color, but i have had my blues get lighter or darker by a shade or two after their first molt, love the buff photo bombing too
they could have even hatched out of lavender or porcelain (blue cream) eggs. but if someone has what they think is lavender or self blue cream in their porcelain or lavender pen. but since lavender is resistive they will go to what every other color lavender would have diluted in this case blue. i have seen a LOT of dilute splash that look very much identical to self blue (lavender). but sadly they do not breed the same so it can throw a monkey wrench in the breeding pen for sure!
heres a picture of my blue cream pen, so far all the chicks have been blue cream hopefully it will stay that way.....

and what i hope is a self blue (lavender) boy i will do a trail breeding to make sure he isn't dilute splash before i get him a pen of his own in spring.

 

[Theresa sla]

I have 2 Porcelain pullets I hatched out this spring.. From blue partridge parents. I know this is not supposedly possible, but I don't know what the parent's backgrounds are. They are beautiful!

if i had to take a guess with out seeing them in person i would guess white with silver or gold bases showing throw. or dilute splash with a bit of autosomal red showing.
very pretty but unlikely porcelain ( blue cream) like funky said above lavender is recessive and both parents have to either be lavender or split to lavender. but if both of your blue partridge parents carry for lavender there for it IS possible of blue cream, just a bit unlikely is all. you could always try a test breeding to see what genes they carry, if its important to you?
They are gorgeous!!! what ever the color