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I haven’t had any Italian or manchurian hens with solid red or brown heads, just the males, but I have had males that did not have the solid head, and had markings very much like what is traditionally the more feminine look. Here’s a thread I made when a speckly chested bird I thought was a hen...

That ones a tough call. I’m guessing male. With manchurian, hens do seem to have more speckles than Roos. But it’s hard to say if it’s a manchurian hen with a lot of speckles, or an Italian with a small amount of speckles. The black head markings are feminine, but the bald chest is masculine...

Here’s the one I was talking about. It’s tux, so basically white everywhere you can’t see in the pic. I hope it’s a hen!

You would see speckles if he’s a full wild pattern. I think he’s male. The next bird definitely has roux, and it looks like silver also, and looks to be male. Here’s the thing about GPC and SSC, it’s so difficult to know your flavor of gray. GPC is like a wide variety of traits. I’m pretty...

I have also found that silver travels more readily to males, and my suspicion is that roux is responsible. After several generations I have many silver hens, but I don’t have a clean snowie hen yet. I’m thinking genes that are incompletely dominant are less dominant in hens somehow. I get many...

It looks pearl, but when I see the wings, they look dark gray, so the head can lighten as the feathers grow and fluff out. I have one that looks very much pearl, but produces silver chicks, so it’s just dark dark gray. Looking at the head, and what I can see of the chest, I feel like it’s more...

That first one looks like it is a roux range pattern, with fee. The pattern diversity is probably from wild pattern bleeding in, so like a Rosetta pattern, roux fee. The next bird looks like autumn amber, with silver, so roux, Italian and silver. I’m saying roux on these because there’s no...