Splash/ Blue Silkie Thread

[cityslickers]

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Yours are Beautiful I love the beard on Jezebel looks like flower petals

 

[SilkieChickenLover336]

Sorry i havent checkd this thread in a while but they are all so beautiful!!!!!1 i cant wait till mine get here and i pop them in the bator!!!

 

[PamB]

Here are mine:

Splash Pullet:

Blue Pullets:

Blue Cockeral:

 

[horseshoecreekranch]

Here are a couple pics of our blue and splash silkies:

One of our blue cockerels:

One of our blue hens:

One of our splash cockerels:

One of our splash hens:

 

[SilkieChickenLover336]

Does anyone know what the genes are of them (i dont know if that is right) like did the cross a black with a white?

 

[josh44]

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Blue X Blue = Splash - do not know where it originally came from.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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Blue X Blue = 50% Blue, 25% Black, 25% Splash
Blue X Splash = 50% Blue, 50% Splash
Blue X Black = 50% Blue, 50% Black
Splash X Splash = 100% Splash
Splash X Black = 100% Blue
Black X Black = 100% Black

 

[ShysCreations]

Maya, light splash pullet

Gaston, blue cock

Blizzard, very light splash pullet

Cookie, splash hen

I'd posed a question on ASBC site about the faded splashes if they'd be DQ'd due to color. Thanks to the responses---very helpful folks--they said splashes have a wide range of light to dark. So Blizzard & Maya are headed to their first show in April.

 

[daze333]

I am just getting into raising sweet silkies. I have a few that are a light dusty blue. Is this ok? Is there a scale from light to dark with blues too?