21 Week TSC Ameracana/EE Gender

[Jenwisp]

So what would the pattern on her be called? I've seen it on non-mutt breeds.

I thought "birchen" was a pattern or color descripter. Like wheaten, lavender, or barred, etc.

Would she be partial birchen? This post says it is just a color. And she is that color, regardless of her parenting.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/is-birchen-a-color-or-a-breed.885280/

 

[HappyClucker7]

So what would the pattern on her be called? I've seen it on non-mutt breeds.

I thought "birchen" was a pattern or color descripter. Like wheaten, lavender, or barred, etc.

Would she be partial birchen? This post says it is just a color. And she is that color, regardless of her parenting.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/is-birchen-a-color-or-a-breed.885280/

Not if she is a mixed breed. Somewhere in her past, a birchen chicken might have been introduced into her lineage, but you can't call her coloring birchen anymore, because she isn't pure bred.

 

[Jenwisp]

Not if she is a mixed breed. Somewhere in her past, a birchen chicken might have been introduced into her lineage, but you can't call her coloring birchen anymore, because she isn't pure bred.

So how do you describe an Easter Egger if you can't use the color pattern as a description? Does it only matter to breeders/collectors/for show? Could I say she is partial-birchen colored? Would I say she is black?

I have a couple others who look like they took their coloring from a legbar somewhere in their lineage. I have no idea what that grey/pink marbley looking color is but it is very pretty.

 

[HappyClucker7]

So how do you describe an Easter Egger if you can't use the color pattern as a description? Does it only matter to breeders/collectors/for show? Could I say she is partial-birchen colored? Would I say she is black?

You just say she is a gray, black, and white Easter Egger. There is no way to describe an EE better than that, because she is a mixed breed. No two EE's will look exactly the same, so there are no official names for their colors.

 

[Jenwisp]

Well, turns out if I had waited another week I wouldn't have had to pester you all! She laid a little blue egg this week!

Thank you all for the reassurance ( and the wisdom )

 

[HappyClucker7]

Well, turns out if I had waited another week I wouldn't have had to pester you all! She laid a little blue egg this week!

Thank you all for the reassurance ( and the wisdom )

Yay! Congratulations!