Silkies!!

[Happy Henny]

View attachment 1412297 i love them.

OMG they are so cute!! I just got one of the paint silkies at a poultry swap! I Love Her So Much!!!!!!!

 

[Happy Henny]

Okay so a white splash is pretty much like a painted silkie?

Yes, Pretty much but white splash silkies have spots and the paint silkies have splotches

 

[NNYchick]

Yes, Pretty much but white splash silkies have spots and the paint silkies have splotches

Splash is a dilute of blue (need 2 copies of blue) to create splash. There are washed out splashes that may look white but to be a splash it has to have a blue hue to even the light areas- no white splashes. Paint is a gene that causes pigment holes in dominate white that lets the recessive color come through as spots or patches. The best description I have seen for paint is think of dominate white as a sheet with holes cut into it when you but the sheet over a the bird the recessive color (should be black) will show through the holes. But you need the paint gene to accomplish this. One way I have heard of determining a splash from a paint is paint will have the black color on the whole feather all the way to skin but splash is only dark on the ends of the feather. For chicks a splash look white with a blue cast to it but a paint will be white with dark dots.

 

[MageofMist]

... I think if my silkies had real eggs under them, they'd be hardboiled.

 

[KOdin]

Are you ready for this fluffy butt?