What color Silkies are these? (PICS)

[Rosecomb-Ryan]

Here they are... (Posting for my Grandmother)

 

[RAREROO]

The greyish one in the third picture is a Splash, the other one looks like maybe a Buff Isabel or a really light Buff.

 

[Rosecomb-Ryan]

Yeah the Splash is for comparison.

 

[V Comb]

I dont know what colour it is, But it is BEAUTIFUL

 

[racuda]

Very pretty hen.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I agree, she looks isabel or isabel porcelain.

 

[TurtleFeathers]

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Sonoran: What exactly is the difference between "isabel" and "isabel porcelain"? Genetically, I mean?

Didn't mean to hijack - OP, your grandmother's hen is gorgeous!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Sonoran: What exactly is the difference between "isabel" and "isabel porcelain"? Genetically, I mean?

Didn't mean to hijack - OP, your grandmother's hen is gorgeous!

And I don't mean to hijack either--but sweet SULCATA??

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Sonoran: What exactly is the difference between "isabel" and "isabel porcelain"? Genetically, I mean?

Didn't mean to hijack - OP, your grandmother's hen is gorgeous!

Oh dear. Isabel is lavender diluted buff--the predominant colour in the hen pictured, as well as the colour of my avatar. Isabel is a very "soft" colour, whereas buff is very "bright." Pastel vs vibrant. Generally, porcelain is lavender diluted mille fleur; however, in the silkie world porcelain is a bird displaying both lavender and isabel without the actual mille fleur pattern. Kind of like silver penciled and silver laced are the same colours, but not the same pattern.

Some porcelain silkies are mostly lavender with some isabel; have near equal amounts of each colour and some are mostly isabel with some lavender. I am torn between which term to use because porcelain silkies lack the mille fleur patterning, but the mixed lavender and isabel colouring is stunning in a silkie; for that matter, so is the isabel colouring. We need a working standard.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Sonoran: What exactly is the difference between "isabel" and "isabel porcelain"? Genetically, I mean?

Didn't mean to hijack - OP, your grandmother's hen is gorgeous!

And I don't mean to hijack either--but sweet SULCATA??

Look like tortoises to me

(I was just looking at my neighbor's who are hibernating--we have LOTS in the neighborhood)