Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[chickengr]

Let me get my camera out.. I've got soooooo many blue based partridge kids, I'm weeding them out.. well, rehoming.

mine with the pea combs mostly are blue based partridge. I desperately wanted them

 

[CSolis]

Crappy Samsung photos, but you get the picture (pun intended). I finally got some black pullets to put with Prince, when they mature, and 1 black cockerel to put with Prince's sister.. Maybe I'll get black based partridges yet.

Here's Prince, he's almost an adult. His sister is lighter red and blue. Non of the babies are theirs as she has just started laying.

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

My last lot of babies. Unfortunately they were the test hatch for finding who was throwing the straight combs so I can't keep any. Except one. I think it was the mixed colour cockerel. Can anyone help identify what colour he is? I'm considering keeping him, at least for a bit.

This is the mixed colour one.

And I have questions regarding these two. I should not have gotten any splash chicks. I only have a splash rooster and no splash OR blue hens...
My current suspect is that my Silver Partridge hen is also blue. If that was the case that would make the cockerel silver splash correct?

 

[Hinotori]

My last lot of babies. Unfortunately they were the test hatch for finding who was throwing the straight combs so I can't keep any. Except one. I think it was the mixed colour cockerel. Can anyone help identify what colour he is? I'm considering keeping him, at least for a bit.

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This is the mixed colour one.
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And I have questions regarding these two. I should not have gotten any splash chicks. I only have a splash rooster and no splash OR blue hens...
My current suspect is that my Silver Partridge hen is also blue. If that was the case that would make the cockerel silver splash correct?
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They are all pretty colors. There's no name for that color, but he is pretty.

 

[Hinotori]

Got to watch your step in my pens. Never know if the ground is a chicken. And she didn't move

 

[Hinotori]

I can't figure out how partridge, wheaten, and recessive white could give me this. I've never had one look like this. He's from a quarter ameraucana hen. The recessive white pops up on me occasionally. Ive had 7 white birds in a decade now. This is the only one not pure white. He's got that peach sheen all over.

 

[chickengr]

I can't figure out how partridge, wheaten, and recessive white could give me this. I've never had one look like this. He's from a quarter ameraucana hen. The recessive white pops up on me occasionally. Ive had 7 white birds in a decade now. This is the only one not pure white. He's got that peach sheen all over.

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must have been some red in his daddy?

 

[NagemTX]

I can't figure out how partridge, wheaten, and recessive white could give me this. I've never had one look like this. He's from a quarter ameraucana hen. The recessive white pops up on me occasionally. Ive had 7 white birds in a decade now. This is the only one not pure white. He's got that peach sheen all over.

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Very pretty tho.

 

[CSolis]

Agree with @chickengr . What color is wheaten a derivative of? From what I understand there are only 3 colors.. Red, white and black. Where does wheaten come from? Looks almost like a red pyle in the making.
Thanks to years of research, we now know that Wheaten is genetically an e-allele (base color) mutation with specific identifying characteristics. Wheaten is the lightest of the e-alleles, most notably removing eumelanin from females.
It's also responsible for the salmon favorelles. (sp)

 

[Hinotori]

Agree with @chickengr . What color is wheaten a derivative of? From what I understand there are only 3 colors.. Red, white and black. Where does wheaten come from? Looks almost like a red pyle in the making.
Thanks to years of research, we now know that Wheaten is genetically an e-allele (base color) mutation with specific identifying characteristics. Wheaten is the lightest of the e-alleles, most notably removing eumelanin from females.
It's also responsible for the salmon favorelles. (sp)

Its derived from partridge originally if I remember correctly. E locus modifier is the main difference. Wild type partridge, without the lacing pattern, is basically chicken default color.

The odd thing is that I only have recessive white and that should cover everything when expressed since it does not leak. So he can't be white.

He's a little mutant.

and my brain wonders if he possibly has that hidden lavender gene that popped up about six years ago. I still dont know which bird originally carried it. Since it's recessive I have no idea who might have it now, except those hens and one rooster I know is a carrier. I'd got rid of known carrier parents but recessives are insidious. He's way lighter than those hens were, though, and they had pale grey heads