What color is this?

[6chickens in St. Charles]

The splash is no longer pure white. He has a golden glow about him. This is one day after a bath and blow dry. The golden hue is either very mutt-ly, or OMG special!

His name was Pearl, because he used to irridesce purply blue like a pearl or white opal. But he became a lttle boy and we call him Eddie Vedder. His dad is a blue silkie, mom is blue mixed silkie/black rosecomb. Now he irridesces brassy, yellow, gold. He has a few golden feathers under the long neck feathers. People say he's a real "looker". He's 9 months old.

Is this "partridge"?

Thanks

 

[tadkerson]

He is splash. The color is referred to brassy by chicken fanciers. It happens to birds that are white or silver and in your case splash. I have not read any research on the brassy expression; people have ideas of why it occurs but I have not seen any data that would support the ideas.

It is not partridge. Partridge in the USA refers to a bird that has concentric penciling as a secondary color pattern on a gold ground color. Partridge was also used to refer to a bird that was brown at the E locus. Partridge can refer to other variates in other countries.

Tim

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

Thanks Tim.