Silkies Of A Different Color

[ChicksNherps]

I have this pullet, she is 5 months. The breeder didn't know what she was, said she was supposed to be a partridge but changed and she wasn't going to keep her so she gave her to me for free. I say she's a light partridge, but anyone else have opinions?

 

[peepblessed]

I have this pullet, she is 5 months. The breeder didn't know what she was, said she was supposed to be a partridge but changed and she wasn't going to keep her so she gave her to me for free. I say she's a light partridge, but anyone else have opinions?

What an adorable ball of fluff!! Maybe dark porcelain.

 

[Treatsrule]

I'm guessing this is a blue partridge roo, but do they have black spots like this little one has on his back?

I have two of these very similarly marked guys from a pen with two buff Silkie roos and one grey and one splash hen. This pen has produced a 1 Columbian, 2 buff Columbian, these two and one dark porcelain (I think). The porcelain looks just like the bird in post #811.

 

[chickendales]

I'm guessing this is a blue partridge roo, but do they have black spots like this little one has on his back?

I have two of these very similarly marked guys from a pen with two buff Silkie roos and one grey and one splash hen. This pen has produced a 1 Columbian, 2 buff Columbian, these two and one dark porcelain (I think). The porcelain looks just like the bird in post #811.

unless you have lavenders in your breeding program you cant get porcelain what are ther parent that is splash some thing

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: CAN'T, not can; and splash, not SLASH. I know you meant it correcty

Porcelain requires two copies of lavender, which dilutes both red an black pigments; not present here.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Very pretty colours, but neither partridge not porcelain.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I'm guessing this is a blue partridge roo, but do they have black spots like this little one has on his back?

I have two of these very similarly marked guys from a pen with two buff Silkie roos and one grey and one splash hen. This pen has produced a 1 Columbian, 2 buff Columbian, these two and one dark porcelain (I think). The porcelain looks just like the bird in post #811.

Not partridge.

 

[sager:)silkies]

suze what colour is this to me it looks like partridge ontop of splash i have never seen anything like it

 

[Treatsrule]

Hmmm, I was thinking that since a Columbian had popped up that lavender might be present in this pen. I thought I had read on another thread that Columbians seemed to pop up in Lavender pens?

So would the silkie pictured just be a blue or a splash with autosomal red? Is it just too hard to know from a mixed pen?

I was intending to have a pen of grey silkies and ended up with a mixed bunch LOL.

 

[chickendales]

Hmmm, I was thinking that since a Columbian had popped up that lavender might be present in this pen. I thought I had read on another thread that Columbians seemed to pop up in Lavender pens?

So would the silkie pictured just be a blue or a splash with autosomal red? Is it just too hard to know from a mixed pen?

I was intending to have a pen of grey silkies and ended up with a mixed bunch LOL.

columbian came from buff