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Testbreed to a gold rooster, not golden or silver.

I never heard of english partridge. We, the dutch call brown=asian partridge and duckwing=bankiva partrdige when you translate it directly. Never heard the word "english" used for "low" quality (for the purists, not me), so I wonder which english breed has this color?

Quote: The other factor of this hen is she almost definitely carries Silver/Red (S/S, ?/? (some sort of Red modifier)). You can tell by her overall coposition. I disagree. She looks gold, textbook gold...

Quote: This could be one. A silver wheaten with autosomal red and Pg and charcoal. This could be a cocopop lacking the autosomal red bit:

Quote: Well, that doesn't change my breeding plan anyhow. Either way, English Partridge or Gold Duckwing, I'll breed her to a Silver roo. That way, unless we're both wrong, the color should easily reproduce itself. (Yes, I know, there will be some goldens. But I'm prepared for that.) Also...

You mean the "flittering"? No, both are selections from the wildtype gold duckwing. Exhibition strains are selected against the light shafts and the flitter/rim, that's all. She may have one dose of wheaten or Pattern gene.

The bird looks like a wildtype colored chicken, genetically a gold duckwing. Maybe het wheaten (red leakage on shoulder). I would not call her a non columbian version of cocopop.