Splash/ Blue Silkie Thread

[flocknfoal]

Thanks everyone for the help and pictures. I'm thinking that all of the light colored ones are going to be white. They seem to have more of a lemon tint than a gray tint which is how our current white looked as a baby. I like the whites, but I really wanted some splash. Oh well.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

It is really difficult to say. Splash chicks are often not a solid colour, but sort of a smudgey mix of silvery/pale blue and even a hint of yellow. Whites tend to be very unicoloured with no variation on an individual chick; they can be silvery, white or pale yellow. There are exceptions to whites--I recently saw photos of nearly red chicks feathering out to white, and I have also seen photos of fairly dark blues feathering out white. I've been hatching silkie chicks for well over a decade and I often still have trouble figuring out the variety from their down.

 

[flocknfoal]

It is really difficult to say. Splash chicks are often not a solid colour, but sort of a smudgey mix of silvery/pale blue and even a hint of yellow. Whites tend to be very unicoloured with no variation on an individual chick; they can be silvery, white or pale yellow. There are exceptions to whites--I recently saw photos of nearly red chicks feathering out to white, and I have also seen photos of fairly dark blues feathering out white. I've been hatching silkie chicks for well over a decade and I often still have trouble figuring out the variety from their down.

Thanks Suze, that sorta makes me feel better - except that I need to sell most of the chicks and I still have no idea which ones I want to keep - except the two lavenders. Those are keepers for sure. And I know I don't want to keep the blacks. Beyond that, I want them all.... and all of the chicks I'm hatching all spring. If only I could build about 10 more coops and runs. haha! Honestly though, these probably all pet quality, so I'll probably sell nearly all of them as well as many of the ones I'm hatching, and continue to watch for the occasional really special opportunity like the lavender pair that was shipped from Lavender Silkies and should arrive here tomorrow.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Let as many as you can grow out as long as you can. You can go through and look for toes and combs if you really cannot hold onto more than a few.

 

[flocknfoal]

I have them listed on craigslist, but with the sudden deep freeze I haven't had much response - which is just fine with me for now! What I really need, though, is to spend a little less time on here and standing outside watching the chicks and chickens, and a little more time on lesson plans. We homeschool, and my girls history and science lesson plans have been a bit bare bones the past couple of weeks.

 

[kabhyper1]

Here is my 4 month old boy Grayson. He is starting to look like a leopard, but my camera sucks. I love spash!!

 

[flocknfoal]

Here is my 4 month old boy Grayson. He is starting to look like a leopard, but my camera sucks. I love spash!!

He's so pretty! Is it common for them to still look mostly solid colored this late? I would have thought the splashes would start showing up much sooner? This chicken keeps giving me so many opportunities to stretch my "patience" skill. HAHA

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Are you sure he is splash? He looks more like a paint--his ground colour looks like the champagne off-colour that many, especially males, have.

 

[kabhyper1]

Are you sure he is splash? He looks more like a paint--his ground colour looks like the champagne off-colour that many, especially males, have.

I'm fairly certain he is splash. He has a lot of splashes in his hackles.His parents are blue. What do you mean by off color? I want to use him in my bbs breeding program.

Here is his tail.

This is him 2 weeks ago

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: The bottom photo definitely has more of a blue tone to the colour; in the first photo you posted, as well as the one at the top here, he has more of a yellowish-brown colouring. It could be either the lighting or camera settings, or even computer settings. It can be difficult to get colours to show up correctly--the bane of my picture-taking!

This is splash (the first two photos were George Mihalik's birds, the 3rd is mine):


This is champagne paint (my bird, bred by Deb Steinberg):


See how very different the colouring is?