Silkies Of A Different Color

[Coops4me]

Would like some input on this female..Is she just a smutty buff, or can she be columbian buff? I bought her to add to columbian project. What color would you say she is? She does have black on her wings,hackles and tail. She holds the wings so tight you can't see the black.

 

[Matt Righi]

Hi all! I write here to better understand: I raise Silkie and wheaten gold silky-feathered Japanese bantam. So I want "create" a gold wheaten Silkie, I crossed a buff Silkie with a wheaten Japanese. Then I recrossed F1 with buff silkies and I got the first "result" (pic 1)

So I crossed this hen with a white roos (no buff roos avalable) and were born chicks with twoo black point in their heads (pic 2). Now twoo of these chicks are as in the pics 3 and 4. One is gold with wings and tails with some black, the other is white with wings and tail with black parts. Are they silver or gold wheaten?




Thank you very much! Matt

 

[nzchicke]

I have this colour silkie come out of my cuckoo and creole mix pen... I don't know what colour he is? can anyone tell me??




he is quite different to all the others(cuckoos and creoles) in his beak / comb / eye colour too

 

[nzchicke]

After browsing many pics on the net the closest thing I can find is lavender? any one think
he could be?

 

[BetsyOK]

Definitely not lavender.

 

[nzchicke]

ok thanks- I think he could carry lav tho as his comb is so different in colour, and lav inhibits the B gene a bit in skin colour.(lets it be a little darker than it would with out lav) I had a closer look at him last night and found some of his feathers has black-ish, mainly just shoulders and a little at base of tail, so cant be pure for lav, So... what could he be? would a splash or light blue look like this with B gene?

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

He looks like a very light cuckoo to me, but its really hard to tell from your pic. Can you get one of him all by himself, of his whole body?

 

[nzchicke]

 

[nzchicke]

These are the 'normal' range of roo colours I get, just for comparison.
top homozygous barring, red face. Middle heterozygous barring darker mottled face, bottom creole mix colour light red comb (heterozygous B? has some unbarred feathers)

 

[Theresa sla]

he's homogenized for the barring gene, basically a double shot of barring in his gene pool. this is good because he will give you 100% cuckoo offspring if you breed him to a dark-skinned black silkie hens to improve skin color. he looks like he's got nice dark feet a great sign!! can't say i've seen non bearded cuckoos very often, very nice.