what color is this silkie?

[hoppy]

I don't have a picture of the actual bird , this is it's mom. only difference is the son has more silver hackles.
base is black, head, tail. chest is sprinkled with silver. I'm entering it as AOV but I need to know what I want to call it or make up a name to call it.

this is another bird I owned, similiar in that has the silver in the hackles (but baby has not red in shoulders), still same black head. the pictured bird I showed as a calico, new bird is not 3 colored.
so I need to know either what is the color called or what should I call it.

 

[silkielover5]

i think you would call her a silver or grey

 

[hoppy]

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gray is a showable color is in silkies already but reading the standard, this bird does not fit. And maybe it is gray but a poor example of the color- but I don't think so. the silver in the hackle is missing from the standard, so maybe silver as a new working name.

 

[MuranoFarms]

Without seeing it, I'm guessing but could it be cuckoo? Is the silver like a barring?

 

[hoppy]

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off to get a photo

 

[hoppy]

close up

and this shows more of his hackles being silver but the body is black.

 

[Sissy]

I have its twin... I call it black -gray silkie

 

[WhiteCochinLover]

blue

 

[hoppy]

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no,not blue, I have blues and he's a black base with silver.

 

[reesepoultry]

Looks like a result of a black and a lavender breeding. Which it would be split to lavender. Pretty much it would be a Black with leakage.