What color would you say these chicks are? Blue or Lavender?

[meepANDpeep]

I have both blue and lavender genetics in my flock. As well as mottling/mille fleur (porcelain).

I know it’s hard at this stage and I went through it once before with my now blue hen. I just want people’s best guesses

I’m too impatient to wait for them to grow out to guess hahaha

 

[LadiesAndJane]

How many chicks are there? Looks to be two?

 

[JustBabyMargo]

Are they both silkies? Where did you get them from?

 

[All4Eggz]

They are adorable
They look lavender but may be blue. hard to tell at this age!

 

[meepANDpeep]

How many chicks are there? Looks to be two?

Two that are not clearly either blue/splash or another color, yes

Are they both silkies? Where did you get them from?

They are silkie mixes! They’re either from my silkie hen or my silkie mix hen, and I have a silkie roo, a half silkie roo, and a quarter silkie roo who could have fathered them. I hatched them from my own chickens

They are adorable
They look lavender but may be blue. hard to tell at this age!

thank you I’m planning to keep one! The one with less cream I think might be blue. And the one that has the lighter comb and more cream on the face and wings - I think maybe he/she is lavender or porcelain. But honestly you’re right. It’s very hard to tell. Frustratingly so! I just wanted other opinion because I’m impatient haha

 

[The Moonshiner]

No comment on top one.
Bottom one is blue.

 

[All4Eggz]

Two that are not clearly either blue/splash or another color, yes

They are silkie mixes! They’re either from my silkie hen or my silkie mix hen, and I have a silkie roo, a half silkie roo, and a quarter silkie roo who could have fathered them. I hatched them from my own chickens

thank you I’m planning to keep one! The one with less cream I think might be blue. And the one that has the lighter comb and more cream on the face and wings - I think maybe he/she is lavender or porcelain. But honestly you’re right. It’s very hard to tell. Frustratingly so! I just wanted other opinion because I’m impatient haha

That's okay. Part of chicken keeping is patiently calming your frustration in impatience.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

First one might be lavender, second one looks to be blue. Really hard to tell this young. Lavender chicks tend to be super light silvery almost white. Blue can vary from so light it can appear lavender to so dark it can almost appear black.

 

[All4Eggz]

The top one almost looks blue cream, or blue splash.

 

[meepANDpeep]

The top one almost looks blue cream, or blue splash.

Blue cream is sometimes synonymous with porcelain which is lavender on mille fleur (or some other pattern) in sablepoots. One of my Roos is mille fleur and his father was porcelain (lavender mille fleur) sablepoot. And one of my hens has a lavender parent. So the chick could be porcelain