what color is this silkie chick?

[janieschicks]

Can anyone tell me what color this silkie is considered? She looks grey but has some buff coloring in her wings?

 

[ChooksChick]

She almost looks like a blue barred, but the buff could be the corn in her food or bleed-through...I can't tell.

 

[janieschicks]

Would another photo help? I can take one a little later when the sun is not as bright.

 

[ChooksChick]

Yes- gimme a couple more to see! It may just be the natural yellowing that sometimes happens with a diet that includes corn.

 

[janieschicks]

I have 3 silkies with the same buff color on the wings. I mostly feed them chick started. One of them is a much darker shade of gray, but the other 2 are about the same shade.

 

[ChooksChick]

Weird- it's almost as if you have 2 Splash-Barred and a Blue-Barred!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

That is not barring. It is penciling, or a juvenile form of it. The pattern will change as the birds mature.

 

[janieschicks]

what color will these turn out to be?

 

[TurtleFeathers]

Looks like a very pale grey (aka silver partridge)?

 

[Cat Water]

In my very un-expert opinion, I think it looks like a cukoo color.