what color is this silkie?

[Sonoran Silkies]

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The Standard calls for "Solid even shade of slaty gray" in the primaries and secondaries of females. It states that "foreign color" is a DQ

I have a grey hen who sunbirns horribly. She stays nice and black/silver for only a very short time after a molt, then her feathers turn bronzy. That said, I am raising a lot of greys this year, and a fair number are showing some red/brown in new feathering. None of them are keepers. I want to clear out the red and have monochrome greys.

 

[hoppy]

could she be a tortiseshell?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

On a hen the red would show on the breast.

 

[hoppy]

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she doesn't have any red, it's definately brown

 

[hoppy]

finally a decent picture of hre wing to show the color which is different from her breast color.

 

[hoppy]

her breast is silver, wings are shown in the picture above, that brownish color,
someone told me she might be blue or blue partridge? she is also 100% indoors, so no sunburn.

 

[acid_chipmunk]

Looks like blue with leakage to me. Not gray.

 

[hoppy]

thank you all for those that replied. I may have to haul her to a show and ask some of the judges but last times it was quite comical as they looked at one of my birds' scratching their heads and coming up with no concenous.