What color is this chick AND what do lavender silkie chicks look like? :)

[CaramelKittey]

Hi all!
1. We recently hatched out some weird mixed chicks. They are all purebred Silkies. The rooster of this little chick is white, but carries the paint gene. I'm not sure who the mother was, but she was either black, or a partridge (mostly gray colored) silkie. I'm pretty sure the mother was the partridge, but I could be wrong. I Appreciate any pictures sent to help figure out what this chick will look like!

2. We are about to get two Bearded Lavender Showgirl Silkies, but we aren't sure what exactly they will look like! The breeder said she doesn't have them sorted by color, so we will just have to pick some out. I'm pretty sure she could identify which ones were the lavender, but I just want to be prepared in case.
Thanks all in advance!

 

[The Moonshiner]

Do you happen to know what other colored chicks may be in with the lavenders?
And BTW there isn't a "paint" gene.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Hi all!
1. We recently hatched out some weird mixed chicks. They are all purebred Silkies. The rooster of this little chick is white, but carries the paint gene. I'm not sure who the mother was, but she was either black, or a partridge (mostly gray colored) silkie. I'm pretty sure the mother was the partridge, but I could be wrong. I Appreciate any pictures sent to help figure out what this chick will look like!
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2. We are about to get two Bearded Lavender Showgirl Silkies, but we aren't sure what exactly they will look like! The breeder said she doesn't have them sorted by color, so we will just have to pick some out. I'm pretty sure she could identify which ones were the lavender, but I just want to be prepared in case.
Thanks all in advance!

Lavender (Self blue) can only be made from crossing two Lavenders together, or with black split to lavender birds. If you are getting chicks from a mixed color pen, it is unlikely they will be true lavenders.
Splash colored chicks can also look lavender at hatch and then develop their splashes later as they grow. Self blue will be a very soft silvery white at hatch.
Congratulations on your new babies!

 

[Jessie404]

What age are the lavender showgirls you will be getting?

 

[Jessie404]

The showgirls will be so cute! They must be expensive, I read on here that a pair of mature lav silkies went for 850.

i found this pic of some day old lavender silkie chicks, so yours will probably be the same colour but with bare necks.

 

[The Moonshiner]

A paint is just a black bird with one copy of dominate white.
When you breed two paints you get paints, whites and blacks. One copy of dominate white won't completely cover the color underneath so that's why you get the black patches. Your bird got two copies of dominate white. Two copies completely covers his black underneath.
If breed to a black all the offspring would be paints

 

[CaramelKittey]

Lavender (Self blue) can only be made from crossing two Lavenders together, or with black split to lavender birds. If you are getting chicks from a mixed color pen, it is unlikely they will be true lavenders.
Splash colored chicks can also look lavender at hatch and then develop their splashes later as they grow. Self blue will be a very soft silvery white at hatch.
Congratulations on your new babies!

Thank you! The chicks are pure lavenders. She just put different pure-color Silkie eggs in the same incubator. She sent a video and I saw that some of the chicks were soft silvery white. Thank you so much! The chick pictured in the original post did look lavender at birth, but doesn't look lavender anymore. Thank you!

 

[CaramelKittey]

We went for 2 lavenders, but they didn’t have 2 lavenders so we came home with 6 different colors.
3 buffs, 1 that could be black, cuckoo, or maybe blue, 1 partridge, and 1 lavender or splash. Love them all. They are all bearded showgirls.

 

[Willawong Hill]

Chicken math strikes again! I went for two silkies, came home with 4, two of whom were roos but i'm thinking they might end up staying still...

 

[CaramelKittey]

What age are the lavender showgirls you will be getting?

They will be day-old chicks.