Blue and lavender chickens

[Cetawin]

I have no Blue chickens YET, check back with me on Labor Day, but speckledhen's boy is Blue...there is no gray no maybe the boy is blue.

This is his picture...that chicken is blue I say

hehehehe Cyn, don't you dare let Suede hear that he is not blue...good heavens that boy will have a fit. Pat him and tell him that I know there are blue chickens and he is the most handsome of them all.

 

[fowltemptress]

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No, you're not the only one, and seeing them in person doesn't help, either . . . they're still very much grey, even the lovely show birds. So don't worry, you have company.

I'm fine with calling a grey animal blue, but until they actually manage to produce a chicken (or horse, etc) with the coloring of a blue jay, it'll just be a fancy name with no basis in reality.

 

[silkielovr]

Very interesting subject.."blue" chickens.
I have a question also. What is the difference between lavender and blue?
I mean is there a LIGHT blue or is all the light blue chickens considered lavender???
Is Lavender really lavender, like light purple?
Help please.
And also how do I attach a pic to my message? I'd send a pic or two of what I consider a blue Silkie.
Thanks,
Snort

 

[silkielovr]

i found a place to upload an image and I did so, but don't know where to get it and put it in a message.
Anyone care to help?
[I know I'm a pain!

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[fowltemptress]

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Try reading this ---> https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=504

 

[cap1717]

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I can clear up the mystery about horses color patterns. Brown, in a horse is very dark brown/black coat, with no distiguishable "points". . . Bay is anywhere from very light brown, reddish brown in various shades or darker brown, but with black "points". . . the point being the lower leg, mane and tail. Brown and Bay horses can, of course, have white markings, but "brown" will be pretty much the same color all over (except for white markings) and Bay will be brown with black points, also with white markings in some animals.

 

[Krys109uk]

I have a question also. What is the difference between lavender and blue?
I mean is there a LIGHT blue or is all the light blue chickens considered lavender???
Is Lavender really lavender, like light purple?

Lavender & blue are colours caused by different genes.
Lavender is generally lighter, more even in colour. It is a light grey colour with possibly a silvery loo to it. It is not the colour we usually associate with the word lavender nor is it the colour of the plant. Lavender is a recessive gene & breeds true.
Blue is often called Andalusian blue it is quite usual for it to be a variety of shades, this being described as variability of expression. It is usually a less even colour & most often darker than lavender. The blue gene is incompletely dominant; the chickens known as blue being the expression of the heterozygote &, as such, the colour does not breed true.​

 

[silkielovr]

I'm trying it!!! Here goes......Blue chick [I hope]

 

[silkielovr]

Thanks for the help everyone, I may be a "new egg" but not for long with all this good help!

I think I understand more about the Lavender now and I am glad someone explained about the "brown" horses.
Hardly any one ever says they have a brown horse, cause they don't know what a brown horse is.
Just as explained he is just brown! No black points, no light mane and tail either, [then the brown horse is a sorrel with flax or light mane/tail.]
OR he can be chocolate......or even chestnut
Lots of black horses are really brown, seal brown, you can tell by the nose color, black horses have black noses, seal browns have a brown look to the nose......OOOOPS this is a chicken forum..I'm sorry.

The chic pic is little light but he is really dark "blue" and just too cute!

 

[walkswithdog]

I've got blue blues, gray blues, those that are more dk gray, and gray blacks (lack a melanizer) and true blacks. Side by side they are VERY different from one another.

I also happen to LIKE gray silkies.

Naming colors is always going to be a matter of some inaccuracy. Like Lemon Blue. I'm absolutely sure the lemon isn't actually the color of a lemon, unless it's a very palid lemon.

And pictures are not necessarily ever accurate, nor are photos on a computer monitor since many do not represent anything like a true color - ask any yarn, fabric, or carpet dealer on the net.

Judging on a limited basis of photos - in books or on the computer is really no way to judge color at all.

Live birds in sunlight are substantially different from any photo.