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White is a color you see on the chicken. There are a number of different genes that can cause white, plus a few more that cause colors light enough to look "white" in some situations. Silver is caused specifically by the Silver gene, that turns gold/red shades into white. So it is white caused...

By looking at them, probably, but I'm personally not very good at it. If you are breeding them, you can often work it out by the offspring. A splash chicken has two blue genes. A blue chicken has one blue gene and one not-blue gene. A black chicken has no blue genes. Breeding to a black...

I think Citronella is probably blue, with large areas of silver, and some red leakage in the wings. So he could give either a blue gene or a not-blue gene to the chick. Of course I could be wrong. I sometimes have trouble sorting these things out :) For Derby, I'm having a bit of trouble...

Splash is two copies of the blue feather gene, and it is a dilution of black. The chick in the photo looks (to me) like it has actual black, or possibly a very dark blue, in its coloring. Do you have a picture of the father? I'm getting curious to see how he looks. Maybe the mother as well.

I think that is just loud chick pattern. Barring usually makes white lines that run across the feather from one side to the other. In the wings, I think I'm seeing a white dot at the tip of each feather, then various black/white speckledy patterns in the rest of it. (It looks a lot like what the...

I do not see a headspot on that chick, but for chicks with dark markings on the head like that, I do not trust that a headspot would actually be visible. It seems that "dark marking" can over-ride "light headspot" when the down is getting colored. So I would wait until the chick grows some wing...

I have read that at least some hatcheries do vent-sex the autosexing breeds, because that avoids problems with chicks that aren't clearly the male or the female coloration, and it may sometimes be easier to have the vent sexers do those chicks too than to train someone else to recognize the...

When barring causes a head spot, the spot is white or yellow in color (like on the heads of Barred Rock chicks, or on male Bielefelder chicks.) Some chicks have dark markings on their heads (like one of yours does, or random-looking dots of actual black on some chicks I have seen), but those...