Splash or leakage?

[jjjennejjj]

These are about 7 weeks old. They are a cross; gray Silverudd’s blue roo over blue eggs from either my splash ameraucana or pale yellow ameraucana (from a snow wheaten project) Is this white with black leakage or will it become splash as they mature?

 

[AltonaAcres]

Looks like splash to me!

 

[Yard Farmer]

Looks like splash to me!

Same here!

 

[AusHen]

Personally I think these are white with leakage, so one copy of dominant white with the left in the first photo also being blue. If they hatched with those spots and didn't develop them as they feathered that's another clue they are dominant white rather than splash.

 

[kurby22]

Actually looks somewhat like the Ermine coloring or “paint” with a dominant white over black sort of thing. Probably is splash, just unusual presentation!

 

[jjjennejjj]

 

[jjjennejjj]

I found this, which makes me happy because it shows juveniles that look like mine, but before I posted my question, I read somewhere that Silverudds Blue sometimes have color leakage (not fully ermine, paint, or splash-just a few flecks of black on white) and that it was not preferred.

 

[jjjennejjj]

Personally I think these are white with leakage, so one copy of dominant white with the left in the first photo also being blue. If they hatched with those spots and didn't develop them as they feathered that's another clue they are dominant white rather than splash.

I just saw this post. This is a fuzzy pic, but they were born yellow with black flecks.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I see two that look like heterozygous dominant white with black leaking through and one that could be splash, but could also be heterozygous dominant white and blue. The chick down coloring also indicates that we're looking at the effects of heterozygous dominant white.

Do you have pictures of your 'pale yellow Ameraucana'? The chicks have yellow skin and both Silverudd's Blues and Ameraucanas should have white skin, so I suspect that this 'snow wheaten' project you refer to is either in very early stages, or just a fancy name for Easter-eggers. Pictures of the Silverudd's might be helpful, too.

 

[jjjennejjj]