What color is this chick AND what do lavender silkie chicks look like? :)

[CaramelKittey]

Hi all!
1. We recently hatched out some weird mixed chicks. They are all purebred Silkies. The rooster of this little chick is white, but carries the paint gene. I'm not sure who the mother was, but she was either black, or a partridge (mostly gray colored) silkie. I'm pretty sure the mother was the partridge, but I could be wrong. I Appreciate any pictures sent to help figure out what this chick will look like!

2. We are about to get two Bearded Lavender Showgirl Silkies, but we aren't sure what exactly they will look like! The breeder said she doesn't have them sorted by color, so we will just have to pick some out. I'm pretty sure she could identify which ones were the lavender, but I just want to be prepared in case.
Thanks all in advance!

 

[Jessie404]

What age are the lavender showgirls you will be getting?

 

[CaramelKittey]

What age are the lavender showgirls you will be getting?

They will be day-old chicks.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Do you happen to know what other colored chicks may be in with the lavenders?
And BTW there isn't a "paint" gene.

 

[Jessie404]

The showgirls will be so cute! They must be expensive, I read on here that a pair of mature lav silkies went for 850.

i found this pic of some day old lavender silkie chicks, so yours will probably be the same colour but with bare necks.

 

[CaramelKittey]

The showgirls will be so cute! They must be expensive, I read on here that a pair of mature lav silkies went for 850.

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i found this pic of some day old lavender silkie chicks, so yours will probably be the same colour but with bare necks.

Thank you!
Yikes! Thankfully these are only $35 each!

 

[CaramelKittey]

Do you happen to know what other colored chicks may be in with the lavenders?
And BTW there isn't a "paint" gene.

Thank you! I stink at Silkies.
What exactly would it be called? His parents were supposedly paints and he throws paints, but doesn’t have any paint spots himself.

They should be pure lavenders. I believe the breeder just put different eggs from different pure silkie colorations in the same incubator.

Thanks in advance!

 

[The Moonshiner]

A paint is just a black bird with one copy of dominate white.
When you breed two paints you get paints, whites and blacks. One copy of dominate white won't completely cover the color underneath so that's why you get the black patches. Your bird got two copies of dominate white. Two copies completely covers his black underneath.
If breed to a black all the offspring would be paints

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Hi all!
1. We recently hatched out some weird mixed chicks. They are all purebred Silkies. The rooster of this little chick is white, but carries the paint gene. I'm not sure who the mother was, but she was either black, or a partridge (mostly gray colored) silkie. I'm pretty sure the mother was the partridge, but I could be wrong. I Appreciate any pictures sent to help figure out what this chick will look like!
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2. We are about to get two Bearded Lavender Showgirl Silkies, but we aren't sure what exactly they will look like! The breeder said she doesn't have them sorted by color, so we will just have to pick some out. I'm pretty sure she could identify which ones were the lavender, but I just want to be prepared in case.
Thanks all in advance!

Lavender (Self blue) can only be made from crossing two Lavenders together, or with black split to lavender birds. If you are getting chicks from a mixed color pen, it is unlikely they will be true lavenders.
Splash colored chicks can also look lavender at hatch and then develop their splashes later as they grow. Self blue will be a very soft silvery white at hatch.
Congratulations on your new babies!

 

[CaramelKittey]

A paint is just a black bird with one copy of dominate white.
When you breed two paints you get paints, whites and blacks. One copy of dominate white won't completely cover the color underneath so that's why you get the black patches. Your bird got two copies of dominate white. Two copies completely covers his black underneath.
If breed to a black all the offspring would be paints

Great, thank you! He is with a black hen and some of his babies come out as paint.