What type of silkie?

[Alixzandrah]

Can anyone tell me the color/type of Silkie this one is. I was told lemon blue ? It’s my favorite out of my silkies and none look like it

 

[Alixzandrah]

It’s a boy, Color looks mixed.

I figured boy too. I’ve always been told with silkies you won’t know until it crows or lays. ?

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

Can anyone tell me the color/type of Silkie this one is. I was told lemon blue ? It’s my favorite out of my silkies and none look like it

He is mixed but he almost looks like buff or lemon with silver leakage and unless it's just dirt almost looks like some barring on his crest he is beautiful!

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Can you please tell me how you decided it's a boy? I have 4 chicks and can't tell anything. I'm desperate to learn.

Since he's a young bird, (I can tell just by looking but before you get the hang of that, I would say anything below 16 weeks is pretty young for a Silkie) and he looks somewhere between 8-12-ish weeks. Since he has a bright red comb and is young, he is a cockerel. Now if this bird were 4-5 months that rule becomes questionable because it could be a pullet approaching sexual maturity. At that age, streamers and shoulder patches would be pretty good indicators!

 

[Alixzandrah]

Since he's a young bird, (I can tell just by looking but before you get the hang of that, I would say anything below 16 weeks is pretty young for a Silkie) and he looks somewhere between 8-12-ish weeks. Since he has a bright red comb and is young, he is a cockerel. Now if this bird were 4-5 months that rule becomes questionable because it could be a pullet approaching sexual maturity. At that age, streamers and shoulder patches would be pretty good indicators!

I might need you to sex all my silkies cannot fell for the life of me but him! He’s the only one I suspected cockerel

 

[Alixzandrah]

Sorry I mistyped and wrote "blue buff" when I should have wrote "blue cream." I went into Brahma autopilot mode and wrote a Brahma variety. I edited my original post! To me, it looks like black tailed buff was diluted with blue which makes all the black that grey/blue color plus some barring on top which gives him his stripes across the width of the feather. I can't guarantee this is the exact breakdown because Silkie varieties are named rather strangely but that's what it looks like to me!

Very interesting! I’m learning all of this and how certain parents can make xyz babies. I have 12 different silkies and showgirls different colors and frizzle etc so curious how they can all mingle and mangle and make babies

 

[Alixzandrah]

Very interesting! I’m learning all of this and how certain parents can make xyz babies. I have 12 different silkies and showgirls different colors and frizzle etc so curious how they can all mingle and mangle and make babies

Sorry I mistyped and wrote "blue buff" when I should have wrote "blue cream." I went into Brahma autopilot mode and wrote a Brahma variety. I edited my original post! To me, it looks like black tailed buff was diluted with blue which makes all the black that grey/blue color plus some barring on top which gives him his stripes across the width of the feather. I can't guarantee this is the exact breakdown because Silkie varieties are named rather strangely but that's what it looks like to me!

Is this just a partridge showgirl?

 

[TheOddOneOut]

It’s a boy, Color looks mixed.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Can you get a picture of him standing? He looks like a lemon cuckoo project if I'm correct about him being barred

 

[TamiP]

It’s a boy, Color looks mixed.

Can you please tell me how you decided it's a boy? I have 4 chicks and can't tell anything. I'm desperate to learn.