Why are my silvers not silvers? Buttons that is?

[smallbluejellybean]

Ok I have an all male crew in one of my larger cages. I took a photo and took it down to the local bird supplier. He said that are nothing that he has seen here in Australia. They are almost white, but have silver and faun mixed so light with white.
I just want to know what are they?
The silvers he had were much darker than mine.
They are so light almost white, but have flickers of light gold and silver in their feathers.
HELP.
Is that silver pearl looks at the photos - it doesnt match - the are more faun.

 

[citalk2much]

A picture would help, pearl is a pattern in the feathers. Of a silver not per say a color

 

[citalk2much]

A picture would help, pearl is a pattern in the feathers. Of a silver not per say a color

 

[Akane]

Possibly ivories. Took me forever to figure out what my ivories were the first time. Ivory is cinnamon + silver. They will look sort of like someone blurred a silver smoothing out the pattern and fading everything then adding a slight reddish tint to them. I couldn't find any pictures of my ivories or anyone else's. Zebrafinch.com lists them but doesn't have a pic.

 

[citalk2much]

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That would be very cool as I do not think they have that color yet in AU that would be great for the OP I can't wait to see pictures to see if they really are Ivory!

 

[Akane]

I see breeders listed for AU with silver and cinnamon. All you have to do is put the 2 together enough to get ivory. It's not that hard or anything that special. Mine were 3rd generation accidents. I got buttons that were carrying a lot of silver so my 2nd generation was nearly all silver with a few blue face and a couple cinnamon. I left a blue face cinnamon in with a pair of silvers and did 1 hatch before deciding I dislike silver and cutting them all from my breeding program. Result was about 5 ivories which I meant to get pics of but I guess I didn't before I sold them. The problem is telling the ivories from the plain silvers. I spent months in confusion as they grew up. They sort of looked liked silvers but the pattern and shade did not match. What's a silver but not a silver? Turned out in my case at least it's an ivory.