Columbian breed

[ebhoneybees]

Does anyone know anything about a showgirl mutation called "Columbian"? The coloring is white with black and gray tail feathers and wing tips. Rather lovely, but I don't know anything about them. ????

 

[Katy]

Columbian refers to the coloring of the bird...not the breed. It is a color pattern that several breeds have.

 

[Rootball]

BTW

Columbian( the gene, Co, which pushes black to the hackles and tail) has nothing to do with the country of Colombia.


It is named after the Chicago worlds fair of 1893

The worlds fair in Chicago was held on the 400th anniversary of Christopher Colombus' voyage to the new world, and so It was called "The Colombian World Exposition" (Colombian being used as an adjective meaning of or about Colombus)

This was the first time and place that Chickens with the "Colombian" pattern of plumage were shown.

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Ok sorry After a bit of research the Chickens werent actually at the Expo, but were named in honor of it. The Colombian patterned birds were Wyandottes bred by H.M. Briggs trying to emulate the pattern of the light brahma(probably one of the reasons that Colombian brahmas are called light being that they existed before the gene was named)

Anyway the details are a bit sketchy, but it gives you a background for the name.

The Chicago Expo was in response to the 1889 worlds fair in Paris where the Eiffel Tower was the main attraction.

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

i don't know anything about them, but apparently have some. i hatched these two boys out from eggs purchased from Angie in Texas. Posted here to ask about the color and was told Columbian. They really are gorgeous.

 

[Rootball]

They are beauties...I wasnt aware that colombian existed in silkies.

Is the one on the left a silkie and the one on the right a showgirl?

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Yes, and they are both pretty big boys.

 

[ebhoneybees]

I think you mentioned them on the showgirl site - it made me think of the hen I just hatched. They are so pretty!!

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Yes, i was going to rehome Tony, the showgirl. Now thinking i might keep him. i managed to create another pen space for him and Chumley. They can see the girls, but can't get to them (until the ladies are old enough to want them).

So, ebhoneybees what on earth is a xoloitzcuintle?

 

[ebhoneybees]

it is a mexican hairless dog - pronounced show-low-eets-queentlee. they are very rare and the aztec and mayan cultures had them. their skin feels like rubber!