What color?

[Wolfefarmyard]

Hello!
I hatched this silkie in the spring. When it hatched it looked like it was going to be blue even though it had an interesting pattern.

But now that it’s grown it looks white, like really white!

Is it maybe just a super super light shade of blue? What do you guys think? Have you seen this before?

I attached it’s chick picture and what it looks like now. Thanks!

 

[MysteryChicken]

Hello!
I hatched this silkie in the spring. When it hatched it looked like it was going to be blue even though it had an interesting pattern.

But now that it’s grown it looks white, like really white!

Is it maybe just a super super light shade of blue? What do you guys think? Have you seen this before?

I attached it’s chick picture and what it looks like now. Thanks!

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It looks to be a splash silkie chick.

Image from internet.

 

[keesmom]

Looks white to me. Maybe silver based rather than gold?

Here's a Faverolles chick I hatched a while back. Can't miss him in the center.

Here he was at maturity.

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

It looks to be a splash silkie chick.
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Nope, the other pictures are of him now, and he’s definitely not splash.

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

Looks white to me. Maybe silver based rather than gold?

Here's a Faverolles chick I hatched a while back. Can't miss him in the center.

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Here he was at maturity.

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How interesting!

I was really confused because I don’t have any white silkies, but yet I got a white from them!

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

@Ridgerunner you know a lot about genetics and colors, what do you think?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Nope, the other pictures are of him now, and he’s definitely not splash.

I'll hang around, & wait for growth updates.

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

I'll hang around, & wait for growth updates.

The other pictures after the chick one is what he looks like now. He’s fully feathered and just about mature, so I believe that’s how he will always look.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The other pictures after the chick one is what he looks like now. He’s fully feathered and just about mature, so I believe that’s how he will always look.

Oh, I miss read.
Since the chick was blue at hatch, he had blue parents, the chick most likely had recessive white genes from both blue parents that didn't show until he grew up.

 

[NNYchick]

I would also say silver based white. Before I saw the grow out picture my first thought was double silver gene rooster, but you know that by now. Silver based roosters that are double silver have that dark chick fluff. He would be good to use in a paint pen or with whites that you want to help clean up the yellowing cast that gold based can cause. I personally prefer silver based whites over gold based because they are bright white and shinier.