Splash/ Blue Silkie Thread

[donrae]

found my silkies, thanks!

 

[bardies]

Can anyone tell me if this is considered a splash silkie? It's mostly white with a little bit of black on it.

I don't think anyone else has answered. I am not too experienced at this - but it almost looks paint to me. White bird with some black feathers - holes in the white pigment.

 

[SymanSaysFarms]

My friend just hatched this silkie out last night. The egg came from our farm though and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what color variation this little girl could be? ( upper left) Dad is blue and mom is white. Thank you!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

My friend just hatched this silkie out last night. The egg came from our farm though and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what color variation this little girl could be? ( upper left) Dad is blue and mom is white. Thank you!

It looks partridge to me, but its hard to tell since its still kind of wet. Super cute!

 

[LisaLouHoo]

Less than a month ago I got my first pair of silkies. A blue hen and a splash roo. They are so adorable. Immediately I started looking in Michigan for another BBS hen to complete a trio. I found this to be a pretty hard task since you can't sex them for many months and I was only finding chicks. The reason I even got the silkies was because I knew they were so broody. Well, the little hen laid eggs like crazy and once I confirmed fertility I started saving them for when she went broody. I have other hens and NO broody. I was getting obsessed, so I read an ad on Craig's List about a guy who would incubate my eggs for 50 cents ea!!! So I took in 9 eggs yesterday and have started the long wait for my little chicks. Out of nine, I should get a hen....now that's "chicken math!"

 

[lindy]

I have a splash rooster if interested. He is sweet. From a splash and splash pairing so a bit light. Bearded and vaulted. Free. In coos county

 

[blipit007]

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?

OOOOOOO MMMMMMMMM GGGGGGGGGGG! <3

For reference here is Grayson as a new chick and now. He had lighter feet and beak like a white, not dark like the blues.

I love him!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Some of my blue chicks (and a Sizzle thrown in for fun) from my last hatch

 

[LisaLouHoo]

Less than a month ago I got my first pair of silkies. A blue hen and a splash roo. They are so adorable. Immediately I started looking in Michigan for another BBS hen to complete a trio. I found this to be a pretty hard task since you can't sex them for many months and I was only finding chicks. The reason I even got the silkies was because I knew they were so broody. Well, the little hen laid eggs like crazy and once I confirmed fertility I started saving them for when she went broody. I have other hens and NO broody. I was getting obsessed, so I read an ad on Craig's List about a guy who would incubate my eggs for 50 cents ea!!! So I took in 9 eggs yesterday and have started the long wait for my little chicks. Out of nine, I should get a hen....now that's "chicken math!"

Out of the nine eggs I mentioned above, three hatched. So I paid the guy $1.50 for these little gems! Are they not adorable? Would you say they will be blue or splash?? Love them!!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

They are SUPER adorable

They look blue to me, but one of my hens started out very dark like your cutie in the front and turned into a very nicely marked splash (in my opinion, anyway). I'll post some pics of her when my hubby gets of the computer, whenever that may be. Its a pain to post them from my phone, which is what I'm using now