Silkie porcelain/splash project. This is what I've come up with.

SilkieSalon

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Apr 19, 2014
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Let me preface this by saying I tried in vain to find a porcelain splash silkie (for lack of a better label) on the web with no success. I found plenty on porcelain, isabel, lavender gene, and splash, but no information when you cross them. Recently I put one of my one year old hens with the porcelain splash pattern and asked for help identifying the color. Unfortunately, I couldn't find an answer. So at this time, I have no idea if I am working on a color that is already labeled or if I am working on a color that stands alone. Either way, its not a recognized color.
Here is what I am using to produce this color:
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I have a porcelain male and 3 splash hens - one black the other 2 blue.
Here is what hatched yesterday:
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They are just chicks, so you can't trust what you see now. All could end up porcelain or something else.
What I am hoping to get, is more of these:
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Of course if you know about these color lines, I would love to hear what you have to say. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I found the pastel mix a beautiful combination of soft colors.
 

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A true Porcelain(as in gold partridge silkie with the lavender gene) + Splash(Bl/Bl) silkie would lack any meaningful contrast to be of any perceivable beauty at least for the exceedingly high amount of work you would need to put on the process, the bird that you are trying to produce will be basically a solid white bird.

Splash will turn any brown and black feathers into a nearly white color, the gold will be diluted to a straw color and lavender will just fade them to white.

perhaps the color type you are looking for is not really Splash Porcelain?
 
No, I actually agree with Nicalandia. If there was a blue dilution, the markings would be extremely diluted, almost white.
In Black Breasted Phenotype(Partridge, black breasted red, golden duckwing) the Splash dilution will make the roosters look like Red Pyle as if they were diluted by the dominant white gene(I/I) instead.

Splash can be used as an alternative to dominant white on all patterns(Laced, double laced, black tail buff) except extended black and birchen where the most melanizers accour.

Splash Partridge Brahma(Also Blue Partridge), the same effect is to be expected in silkies so I believe the best option would be adding Lavender to a Blue Partridge background because it would not have been so much diluted by Splash
 
What I am hoping to get, is more of these:
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Of course if you know about these color lines, I would love to hear what you have to say. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I found the pastel mix a beautiful combination of soft colors.
That hen looks like a lavender with buff leakage. Here's a similar looking chick that resulted from a lavender/buff orp x lavender orp cross:
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(Not my picture)
 

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