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Ok, so I know there are a few posts on the lemon blue cochins and I've been reading and trying to sifer through them, but I still have some questions about it.
I have a cochin rooster that was purchased as a blue cochin cockerel. We went to the ladies house and got to see her birds and picked him up at a good price. She pointed out that he had a tiny speck of brownish red on one feather on his shoulder, but it was so small that I just figured it would moult out or you would never be able to notice once he was bigger. He just looked like a blue cochin to me only looking close could you see the speck on his shoulder. As he grew so did the speck. He now appears to be a blue gold birchen to me. I'm no chicken expert, but thats all I could come up with after looking on the internet for hours and hours. Will post a pic later of him.
So this is my question: How could he be a blue goldbirchen when his parents were blue? The lady had a closed flock of only blue standard cochins. She was breeding for splash and blues specificaly and had very nice stock and very good breeder pens. Is there some way that this color is a recessive that popped out of the blues?
How could I go about recreating his color on offspring? He isn't breeding just yet, still a touch young, but he's so pretty. Right now I only have buff, gold laced, silver laced, and barred hens to pair him with what would be the best color to pair with him to hatch eggs from in hopes of recreating this gorgeouse color?
And lastly what do I call it? Blue gold birchen or lemon blue? I've seen pics of cochins others are calling lemon blue that have buff patches on the chest and such, but this guy is not like that his hackles are a pretty yellow gold color and then the coloring goes over his wings and back a bit, but the rest of him is blue. no patch on the chest. It's like the birchen pattern only its goldish on a blue body rather than a black body. He is still a bit young and I have no idea how much more coloring he will get.
Thanks in advance I know I have lots of questions, sorry.
I have a cochin rooster that was purchased as a blue cochin cockerel. We went to the ladies house and got to see her birds and picked him up at a good price. She pointed out that he had a tiny speck of brownish red on one feather on his shoulder, but it was so small that I just figured it would moult out or you would never be able to notice once he was bigger. He just looked like a blue cochin to me only looking close could you see the speck on his shoulder. As he grew so did the speck. He now appears to be a blue gold birchen to me. I'm no chicken expert, but thats all I could come up with after looking on the internet for hours and hours. Will post a pic later of him.
So this is my question: How could he be a blue goldbirchen when his parents were blue? The lady had a closed flock of only blue standard cochins. She was breeding for splash and blues specificaly and had very nice stock and very good breeder pens. Is there some way that this color is a recessive that popped out of the blues?
How could I go about recreating his color on offspring? He isn't breeding just yet, still a touch young, but he's so pretty. Right now I only have buff, gold laced, silver laced, and barred hens to pair him with what would be the best color to pair with him to hatch eggs from in hopes of recreating this gorgeouse color?
And lastly what do I call it? Blue gold birchen or lemon blue? I've seen pics of cochins others are calling lemon blue that have buff patches on the chest and such, but this guy is not like that his hackles are a pretty yellow gold color and then the coloring goes over his wings and back a bit, but the rest of him is blue. no patch on the chest. It's like the birchen pattern only its goldish on a blue body rather than a black body. He is still a bit young and I have no idea how much more coloring he will get.
Thanks in advance I know I have lots of questions, sorry.
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Here is the pic of him.
