What colour is this Silkie chick?

[Ciryluk3g]

Can anybody tell me what colour this Silkie chick is? It's parents were a gold roo and a Partridge hen... I don't think it's a standard Silkie colour although it's very pretty... I have another baby identical to this one... They looked blue ish at hatch now they're black with gold streaks and tips to their feathers so neither black nor blue?

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

It isn't a standard variety.

 

[BantamLover21]

It isn't a standard variety.

Agreed. It closest resembles black.

 

[drumstick diva]

Are these hatchery chicks? Breeder chicks would have a poufy crest developing. I think black with gold leakage

 

[Ciryluk3g]

I'm in the UK if that makes a difference? These are backyard breeder chicks she had a gold roo and a black roo carrying paint and 2 paint hens and 2 partridge hens I was told I'd get eggs at random whichever hens laid on the day/days I got 6 eggs and 4 hatched 1 was a paint, 1 was Partridge with chipmunk stripes and 2 exactly like this one... I have older black silkies they are jet black even their beaks are jet black these 2 have gold tipped beaks aswell as feathers.

 

[StarMeKritten]

Yours looks like it will be black with some gold leakage. They are probably a cross between the black rooster and partridge hens.

 

[donrae]

I agree they'll be black with gold/red leakage.