Brown Red or Lemon Blue?

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I hatched some shipped eggs this summer from lemon blue project pen. I thought I had a pair of brown reds here but the hen looks to have more of a dark blue than black. The rooster has a nice sheen to his black feathers, hers seem more blue to me. What do you think?
She's not too happy about having to sit on the grill for pictures!

 

[Chris09]

Looks like Brown Red.

You can sees Lemon Blues in the thread "The Blues as a color" (Click Here)

Chris

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

Thats what I thought, but I wanted to make sure.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

On my screen she looks lemon blue. A brown red will not have blue plumage. So, if it looks blue...

 

[GotGame]

Just a very dark lemon blue.

 

[Blue]

She's lemon blue. A brown-red would need black feathers.

 

[Chris09]

Might just be my computer but I don't see Blue, I do see a dull almost faded Black color.


Chris

 

[nicalandia]

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I can't see Blue also.. but she does have that nice Lemon colored hackle...

 

[Blue]

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I can't see Blue also.. but she does have that nice Lemon colored hackle...

I don't know. It looks like dark blue to me. =\\

 

[Chris09]

There is one sure fire way to tell.
Cross her with a Brown Red, If she is a Brown Red all of here offspring will be Brown Red, If she is a Lemon Blue then her offspring should be Lemon Blue and Brown Red.


Chris