What color is this?

[SharW75]

Our daughter bought this lovely pair of bantam cochins last year, and I don't think I've seen this color in them before. I was thinking lavender (self blue), but the hen has what look to be mille fleur speckles on her feathers. Is there a different name for her color, or do they both fall under lavender?

 

[Egg Snatcher]

I would say porcelain

 

[SharW75]

Thank you!

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Forgot to mention porcelain is lavender with mottled.

 

[SharW75]

We are saving some eggs to incubate. Is porcelain the only color that could hatch, or would it be possible to have some mottled babies too?

 

[Egg Snatcher]

We are saving some eggs to incubate. Is porcelain the only color that could hatch, or would it be possible to have some mottled babies too?

If your Cochins a pure porcelain you’ll get 100% porcelain.
porcelain acts like Millie Fleur except the base color is lavender.

 

[SharW75]

Interesting, thank you! I guess we'll see if they're pure porcelain!

 

[SharW75]

We set 8 eggs in the incubator a couple of weeks ago, but it looks like only three are developing. Four weren't fertile, and one quit early. They have a week to go, so I guess we'll see what hatches! I'm thinking we're going to try again with another incubation after these (hopefully) hatch.

 

[SharW75]

We have an external pip on one egg, and the others are close behind. Looking forward to seeing what comes out!

I did throw one egg from another cochin into the mix, but I have no idea which one it was, or if it's even one of the ones that made it to lockdown. A wild card! LOL

 

[SharW75]

Well, the first chick that's hatched is either blue or black. Hmmm. Could it be the random egg I threw in, or...?

If I understand correctly, lavender is a recessive gene, so theoretically the chicks from two lavender parents have to be lavender. But does the mille fleur gene affect this in any way?