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Pampered chicken girl said:
I didn't know there was a blue silver. This is her without the hen. She is my only brearded silkie shes just now getting the muffs and beard because she had really bad mites when i got her. Now after weeks of treatment every day she is much better.View attachment 3139446
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I am not sure. that is a lot of white. mine have got sort of white highlights. any experts here?
 
This is silver partridge as far as Google is concerned
Google hen
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My pullet
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Mixing colors can give a mix of anything. There isn't really any true guessing unless you know what a cross will give. It's never an actual color but may resemble one somewhat. Sometimes you can get pretty mixes, and if you know what you're doing can try and replicate it. New colors can come about that way.

I know if I cross a partridge rooster with a BBS (or just black) hen I'll get black or blue offspring (depending on hen color) with the males having heavy silver leakage and females having heavy brown (gold) leakage. Cross the leaky girls back to a partridge rooster and you get chicks who are leaky black with the occasional partridge. Pick the best specimens for future breeding back to partridge. That's how I added blue partridge into some of my flock. Took several generations. But black based is easy to cross into partridge and get back to partridge color.

I used wheaten ameraucana for my blue egg silkie project pen because the wheaten doesn't cause much issue with partridge. 2 generations down and the pullets are pretty much back to color. It improved the black on the cockerels. Getting back to conformation is still several generations off at gen 3. They do look like bad quality silkies now which is good. I have 2 mature ones in with a good quality rooster.

Apparently one of the partridge hens I'd got early on had ancestors that came from some mixed breeding. White chicks do very rarely pop up on me as it's recessive white.
 
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Hinotori said:
Mixing colors can give a mix of anything. There isn't really any true guessing unless you know what a cross will give. It's never an actual color but may resemble one somewhat. Sometimes you can get pretty mixes, and if you know what you're doing can try and replicate it. New colors can come about that way.

I know if I cross a partridge rooster with a BBS (or just black) hen I'll get black or blue offspring (depending on hen color) with the males having heavy silver leakage and females having heavy brown (gold) leakage. Cross the leaky girls back to a partridge rooster and you get chicks who are leaky black with the occasional partridge. Pick the best specimens for future breeding back to partridge. That's how I added blue partridge into some of my flock. Took several generations. But black based is easy to cross into partridge and get back to partridge color.

I used wheaten ameraucana for my blue egg silkie project pen because the wheaten doesn't cause much issue with partridge. 2 generations down and the pullets are pretty much back to color. It improved the black on the cockerels. Getting back to conformation is still several generations off at gen 3. They do look like bad quality silkies now which is good. I have 2 mature ones in with a good quality rooster.

Apparently one of the partridge hens I'd got early on had ancestors that came from some mixed breeding. White chicks do very rarely pop up on me as it's recessive white.
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my blue silver have silver in hackles only and my boy has some silver in his wings too (as any blue silver would have).

I gave my blue partridge hen to a friend that has a red roo. what colours of chicks can we expect?
 
Chicken color calculator. You can pick from list. It does require that the birds are purebred for the color, not just resembling it. To be a color it must be able to reproduce itself accurately.

Will have to change genes like for blue (Bl) one copy is blue, 2 is splash.


http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html


I put in red rooster and blue partridge hen. Comes up with phenotype of red for all offspring. Some of the genes on the result mean the offspring will be very leaky.

I think muddy colored red for the offspring.
 
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