colour help - orpington

[spish]

finally Saartje has arrived! (after 3 months of delays!)

can anyone tell me what colour she is please??

 

[scbatz33]

looks like a mottled lav.

ETA - but since you are in europe, maybe it's a barred lav? You have more varieties over there than here.

 

[txcarl1258]

Looks like a barred lav to me.

 

[spish]

whats the difference between a mottled and a barred please?

 

[scbatz33]

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Barred is a pattern. Mottled is more like some one took a paint brush and sprinkled white dots all over the feathers. polka dotted if you will.

ETA - I can't type today

 

[pusskatkins]

Maybe you can help me with one that has a lavender color with yellow legs? It's the one in the center. You can't tell in the photo the legs are yellow.BBSO?

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Sorry Spish I have no idea on her color but

barred?


As soon as I can hop a plane, I will be over and take her off of your hands -- NO, no need to thank me

She is stunning, lucky you.

 

[scbatz33]

Generally speaking a lav bird who has light legs/eyes is not only carrying the mottled gene but is "expressing" it via the light legs/eyes. Did you have the bird as a chick? Sometimes when they feather out, they lose the visual mottling. But as a chicks they would have been yellow with lavender/silver markings.
At least that has been my experience.

 

[spish]

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thank you

my orp flock is growing slowly but surely
ive been waiting for months for Saartje. theres only apparantly 2 people here with this colour orpington and they lived so far away it was near impossible to go and get her. but my darling man went and picked her (and her coop maat Yanna, a blue orp) up for me as a valentines present

)))))

my plan is too breed her with my big stud Goliath (barred/cuckoo orp split lavender) and i think that should make some nice babies

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goliath

Yanna

Zara

 

[M To The Maxx]

She is a Lav Cuckoo.