The "What Color Is My Chicken?" thread! Calling all color experts!

[Coopacabana]

but...e^b is recessive

I definitely think that fuzzy little guy could be a blue partridge.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

but...e^b is recessive

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e^b may be recessive, but you can build a blue or black bird based upon it if you add enough melanizers. Or the blue parent could be E/e^b or E^R/e^b.

If one parent is blue and the other partridge, then chances are pretty good that it is blue partridge.

 

[Justgotchicks12]

The hens look like silver laced wyne dots to me!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

So, just a couple of days later and this is what my little babys got going on:

Its definitely got some blue and partridge in there. When the feathers first started coming out, they were partridge with a little blue on the tips. Now theyre blue with partridge tips. I'm guessing blue partridge is a tough color to get, and I'm a total genetics dummy, so I'm completely unsure of how to proceed from here. But, a blue partridge project sounds interesting. Would I breed this bird back to one of it's parents? Or hope I end up with another chick like it and breed them together? I've never actually bred for a specific color. Usually I just let my chickens do what they do and see what I end up with. But this is a color combo Im very interested in learning more about. So, if all of you genetics gurus could help me out, I'd be grateful!

 

[StarLover21]

I have a question...what color would you call this EE?

Thanks!

 

[hdowden]

blue wheatenish

 

[Henk69]

No, salmon breast means that she is not even heterozygous wheaten (most of the time). Duckwing (e+), splash patterned, maybe silver (else the neck should show gold feathers).

 

[Coopacabana]

Oh, no! Not the melanizers!

e^b may be recessive, but you can build a blue or black bird based upon it if you add enough melanizers. Or the blue parent could be E/e^b or E^R/e^b.

If one parent is blue and the other partridge, then chances are pretty good that it is blue partridge.

 

[Coopacabana]

So... it could be called Splash Silver Duckwing?

No, salmon breast means that she is not even heterozygous wheaten (most of the time). Duckwing (e+), splash patterned, maybe silver (else the neck should show gold feathers).

 

[Coopacabana]

What would you call this guy? I know serama genes are pretty mixed up, but ... maybe mottled birchen? I'll post a pic of the hen, too, when I have one. She's very similar.