Chocolate Orpingtons

[knjinnm]

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Can you explain what "Ground leakage" is to a novice?
Thanks

 

[Comfrey]

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Can you explain what "Ground leakage" is to a novice?
Thanks

I'm curious about that myself (I'm also a novice)...

 

[nicalandia]

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Can you explain what "Ground leakage" is to a novice?
Thanks

Ground color is Gold/Silver.

leakage of ground color is when a solid eumelanized bird is showing some gold/silver color where solid black feathers should be(including eumelanin diluters like Blue, lavender, dunn, chocolate, dominant white, recessive white, Splash). what causes this? its believed that the lack of melanizers or heterozygosity of E/ER allele.

 

[Illia]

In a nutshell, it's unwanted color leakage like silver/white, gold, or red on a normally solid bird. Often happens in some black and blue birds.


I agree but who knows, could be sun-bleaching or early feather damage too. Often small amounts of leakage happen at the edges of the feather, not so often at primarily the tips.

 

[knjinnm]

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Thank you Illia
and thank you nicalandia for bringing it up.

 

[nicalandia]

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Thank you Illia
and thank you nicalandia for bringing it up.

illia its a good teacher, he is better with words..

 

[Illia]

She

 

[nicalandia]

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Sorry ma'am....

 

[pokey]

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I see some ground color leakage.

It's milk choc. markings........

. Beautiful bird leakage or not.

 

[stoneunhenged]

Thanks for the comments. I think some if not all of the color effect you're seeing results from six months of bleaching in the Florida sun. Quite a few of our birds --jubilee Orpingtons, buff Sussex, etc.-- show a pronounced bleaching effect in this environment. Another pic from today: