What color is this Silkie and Cochins?

[texaschickmama]

I was just curious about the color of this silkie. The woman that she came from is a GREAT BREEDER of silkies and her birds are top quality.

Also, if anyone knows what color the cochin chicks are please tell me. I know I have a blue and black, but is the lightest one a splash?

Thanks!!

That is a shadow "stripe" on the midsection of the silkie.

THANKS!!

 

[KellyHM]

The Silkie looks like a splash, or possibly a grey. The lightest Cochin chick looks like a light blue, but could be a splash.

 

[texaschickmama]

Thanks! I'm trying to decide if I should sell the silkie or not. At this age, I would think I could see the developement of the comb. I have a white little roo that is MUCH smaller than this one with a reddish comb.

 

[silkieluver_07]

It looks to be a gray silkie. I'm thinking pullet, but its really early to tell gender or not.

Send it to me!!

 

[SunshineSilkies]

Looks like a grey silkie to me and could be blue or splash on the cochin.

 

[racuda]

I think its a splash cochin. For reference here two of mine, a chick that grew into a splash cockerel along with his buff sister:

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

The silkie is definitely a grey. I'm not sure I understand your comb concerns? Silkies should never have red combs, and many breeders breed for small comb size. SIlkies have a walnut comb, not the more common single comb.

The cochin chicks are mostly blue, although there looks to be one black and one splash.

 

[texaschickmama]

What I mean by red comb is he is already developing his little walnut comb and it is kind of red at the top where it is getting big.

A single comb indicates what? Poor quality or just not desirable.

 

[Bo Garrett]

Having raised cochins for years in the blue, black and splash varieties I can say definitively that you have several blues in that batch of chicks. One is lighter but I am not sure it is light colored enough to be a splash. Most splash chicks to not have the heavier silver overlay to the down it will be creamy white much like the under color of the body of the blue chicks, this is due to the double dilution factor. Did you breed black to blue, blue to blue, blue to splash or splash to splash? The breeding combination will determine what combinations of varieties you come up with. Splashes bred to splashes will breed 100% true = all splash chicks, the other matings will all result in percentages of black, blue and splash with the exception of blue to splash which will result in blue or splash only.
The silkie is gray and is still young, silkies much like cochins do not need to be culled early unless they have obvious disqualifications such as: comb foreign to breed (eg. single, rose, pea), lack of fifth toe, lack of gypsy color in the face, comb wattles and poor or lack of feathering down shanks and outer/middle toes.
She looks to be a pretty girl and may mature out nicely.
The cochin chicks look nice and wide bodied hope they turn out to be good ones for you.

Bo

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Wrong comb is a DQ. Genetically single comb is rr pp; correct comb should be RR PP or at least Rr Pp