Yes, could be the lighting. Pullets were in the shade on some photos. I had Khaki polish at one time. I do not think it is Khaki and I know it is very difficult to evaluate color from a photo. Some colors must be seen with your own eyes. Friedeggs and I compared this color up against one of her...
Two silver/smokey males. One is much younger and as you can see, as they molt out young white feathers, they are being replaced by new silver/smokey feathers.
This is the first male to start to molt so I do not yet know what the rest will do.
These are some of the young pullets. White...
Yes, I saw this thread a while back and emailed her with some questions. We exchanged some information about this coloring. She has only males and I sent her some photos of a pullet, but since then I have had some more from this group that turned out to be pullets. The color is similar, but not...
Seems to be mixed opinions about this color from several breeders. I will keep you posted as I intend to work with it and see what I have here.
I've not seen silver gene color like this either. The males that I have, that are silver gene have a small amount of silver in the tail and the rest
of...
"LOVE BIRDS"
frizzle polish bantams, wht. crested cuckoo male, wht. female
"Watching Ants Very Closely"
These two little girls (white and red pyle silkie pullets) were fascinated at their first glimpse of ants.
"IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE"
No, it's "Una" my Polish Tolbunt Hen, well I guess...
Wow....I never thought about or realized how hard it is to get a straight on, corner to corner of beak shot of a bird. Some not so easy to do because of all the fluff.
Started looking through my bird photos, very few.
I usually go for side shots to get everything in the photo. Tough...