EEs from ChooksChick! new pics in February - page 7

[firedove]

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Interesting! I hope the roo's silver/white doesn't overpower the gold in the chick- I'd love to see what it would look like. I'll look for pics of CindyLouWho as a chick to see what her coloring looked like way back then...seems to me she looked blue, but I'll have to see.

Okay, they're all rather awful shots, but there are some. They're after the blue fuzz wore off.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14596_img00327.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14596_img00329.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14596_cindylouwho6wks.jpg

Here's one as fluff: she's the one on the bottom left, and I remember her fluff being bluish and golden/reddish.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14596_img00220.jpg

So she was chipmunk too. This chick is already getting blue and gold on it's wing feathers so it didn't get the silver from dad. That is actually encouraging towards a pullet since silver is a sex-link gene if I remember correctly.

 

[ChooksChick]

It is a sex-link, but there's no way of knowing what, exactly, he is...bother the EE genes!

I have to say, though, Cindy had NO muffs to speak of, and her legs were yellow- I remember thinking she was perhaps a Welsummer or something an it was a mistake!

He muffs are still mini, just a fuzz, and her legs became that lovely willow as she aged.

 

[firedove]

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I think blue/gold chick has puffy cheeks already. Will have to look again.

 

[Henk69]

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The color on the picture is, in chicken calculator lingo, a "blue patterned gold columbian" (gold columbian = buff columbian)
To get more just use a buff columbian rooster. If you use a black breasted red rooster (BBR, without columbian) the pullet offspring might get more blue pattern on their backs.

If you want an entire gold laced blue chicken then best look at the silver sussex.
Silver sussex are black with a thin silver lace all over. They can be bred along with light sussex so their genotype is probably: E^R/E^Wh Co/Co plus maybe pattern gene Pg
So they are birchen(/wheaten) base with columbian and a few secret ingredients.

If you replace the silver by gold and add blue, your chicken would be full gold laced blue.
I don't know if they would maintain contrast though.
The body lacing does not show up in the chickencalculator, the pictures would look like a "blue patterned gold -necked/birchen"
(Birchen can have some lacing on the upper breast region, which in silver sussex is extended over the entire body)

Another color that shows gold lacing on blue is "blue patterned gold quail".
If your columbian factor is not "pure", eg by crossing with BBR, then that would look like quail pattern but the lacing will not be any good if not true quail.

Another color with gold laced blue would be blue patterned gold flitter (leghorn color).
The flitter is gorgeous, shiny.
The partridge color can be selected for a clear groundcolor rim, again secret ingredient probably.
In blue partridge hens the feather should in fact be blue stippled gold instead of blue, but this blue tends to spread over the entire feather

So do you have gold based roosters available?

 

[ChooksChick]

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The color on the picture is, in chicken calculator lingo, a "blue patterned gold columbian" (gold columbian = buff columbian)
To get more just use a buff columbian rooster. If you use a black breasted red rooster (BBR, without columbian) the pullet offspring might get more blue pattern on their backs.

If you want an entire gold laced blue chicken then best look at the silver sussex.
Silver sussex are black with a thin silver lace all over. They can be bred along with light sussex so their genotype is probably: E^R/E^Wh Co/Co plus maybe pattern gene Pg
So they are birchen(/wheaten) base with columbian and a few secret ingredients.

If you replace the silver by gold and add blue, your chicken would be full gold laced blue.
I don't know if they would maintain contrast though.
The body lacing does not show up in the chickencalculator, the pictures would look like a "blue patterned gold -necked/birchen"
(Birchen can have some lacing on the upper breast region, which in silver sussex is extended over the entire body)

Another color that shows gold lacing on blue is "blue patterned gold quail".
If your columbian factor is not "pure", eg by crossing with BBR, then that would look like quail pattern but the lacing will not be any good if not true quail.

Another color with gold laced blue would be blue patterned gold flitter (leghorn color).
The flitter is gorgeous, shiny.
The partridge color can be selected for a clear groundcolor rim, again secret ingredient probably.
In blue partridge hens the feather should in fact be blue stippled gold instead of blue, but this blue tends to spread over the entire feather

So do you have gold based roosters available?

No gold roosters right now...but I sense I shall be seeking them out! Now I have a REAL project on my mind...I keep coming up with them and wistfully make chicken recipes, but her neck lacing is soooooo nice I've often wondered if I could make more and try to do a whole bird in it...or make the color intentional.

Thanks so much- I knew you'd be the guy to ask!

 

[lovemychicns]

They are beautiful. Can you tell me what kind of personality the EE have. Are they friendly? In the spring do you think I could order only 6 of your eggs. I have a small coop.

Karen

 

[Karrie13]

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I agree with this totally,
IF that isnt a color everyone is going to want I will stop eatting eggs
just stunning !

I totally agree! I WANT ONE

 

[ChooksChick]

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Absolutely! Based on what info I've now been armed with, I suspect I'll be raising a golden roo to try to reproduce and perfect the look. What fun!

Just PM me when you want eggs, and if you want, I can get eggs from a specific bird for you.

Right now I do have an auction- usually I just sell via PMs, so this is an experiment for me...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=270344

Edited because I forgot the link...

 

[firedove]

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The color on the picture is, in chicken calculator lingo, a "blue patterned gold columbian" (gold columbian = buff columbian)
To get more just use a buff columbian rooster. If you use a black breasted red rooster (BBR, without columbian) the pullet offspring might get more blue pattern on their backs.

If you want an entire gold laced blue chicken then best look at the silver sussex.
Silver sussex are black with a thin silver lace all over. They can be bred along with light sussex so their genotype is probably: E^R/E^Wh Co/Co plus maybe pattern gene Pg
So they are birchen(/wheaten) base with columbian and a few secret ingredients.

If you replace the silver by gold and add blue, your chicken would be full gold laced blue.
I don't know if they would maintain contrast though.
The body lacing does not show up in the chickencalculator, the pictures would look like a "blue patterned gold -necked/birchen"
(Birchen can have some lacing on the upper breast region, which in silver sussex is extended over the entire body)

Another color that shows gold lacing on blue is "blue patterned gold quail".
If your columbian factor is not "pure", eg by crossing with BBR, then that would look like quail pattern but the lacing will not be any good if not true quail.

Another color with gold laced blue would be blue patterned gold flitter (leghorn color).
The flitter is gorgeous, shiny.
The partridge color can be selected for a clear groundcolor rim, again secret ingredient probably.
In blue partridge hens the feather should in fact be blue stippled gold instead of blue, but this blue tends to spread over the entire feather

So do you have gold based roosters available?

Chicken genetics are so complicated, no matter how much I study I still don't get most of it! I wonder who has buff columbian EEs??? I see lots of partridge EEs and random other colors, but I don't think I've seen a plain buff columbian in all the various EE posts I've looked at. I'm just dying to know how my blue/gold chick will turn out! I've come up with names for the chicks.

yellow with the grey cape: Starlight
blue: Twilight
blue/gold: Sun Shower aka "Sunny"
fat chipmunk: Mack
lighter of the 4 chipmunks: Caramel aka "Mel"
the two other chipmunks: Bobbi and June
the yellows: Bippity, Boppity, and Boo

 

[sloallie10]

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nope, using a trick that someone had posted a while back, the thread was called something like "How to get professional pics of your chicks" or something like that. You take a box and set it on it's side. Cut a hole in the top for a light, I'm using a high power flashlight, but a desk lamp works too. Paint or cover the inside of the box to all one color. In my case I just used printer paper to make the box white inside. Then place in chick and take pics

I did have to edit the photos because they all came out with a blue background look to them so I just whited out the blue by changing the hue and saturation until the chicks were the right color but the background turned white.

oh my gosh i remember that!!