Rural Gardening: What color am I?, 1 by SuzeScott

SuzeScott wrote:
Riley may be a partridge, it kind of depends on how he feathers out. If he gets lots of colour on his head, hackles, wings and saddle, yes. If a girl, she needs penciling on all her feathers; there is not the wide variation in colouring on different parts of a partridge female's body as there is in males. Partridge males take quite a long time developing their colouring. In general darker males and redder females are what you want. At this age I really wouldn't settle into considering Riley male. Partridge is not a new colour, not sure when partridge was accepted into the standard, well before 2000, though.

New colours being worked on by a number of breeders, but not yet accepted in the standard are calico, blue partridge, porcelain, lavender, chocolate.

Incidentally, silkies should not have "moderate" foot feathering; they should have ABUNDANT foot feathering. There are some featherleg breeds where the standard calls for less foot & leg feathering, but not silkies. Riley's foot feathering is very nice.

Here is my son's very nice partridge pullet in 2005.

Suze, Sonoran Silkies