Feather color changing!

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So i have a rooster with gorgeous bright green sheen tail feathers, and he’s a perfect rooster! Show quality and all. But there’s a problem. His feathers are turning to a brown sheen on some parts. A bit purple to, but it just developed like this!
A brown sheen I have never seen before until now! Any thoughts? Is this permanent or any hopes of it changing?
 
I mean, first of all, I don’t know what breed he is. Can I see a picture?
Oh, sorry! He is a Japanese bantam rooster. Here he is!
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I think the sheen is a bit strange, don’t you?
 
I don’t know the cause of the brown feathering. Maybe he had a rough day while growing those feathers? Sometimes feather color can be influenced by the environment, even in just one day. He doesn’t have the short, stocky, tall-tailed look of a Japanese.
 
It’s normal for different chickens to have different shades of iridescence, it doesn’t look like actual brown feathering to me.
I thought it was iridescence at first but I noticed brown on top of one of the feathers and in the top right. Unless that is just the camera being weirdo.
 
I don’t know the cause of the brown feathering. Maybe he had a rough day while growing those feathers? Sometimes feather color can be influenced by the environment, even in just one day. He doesn’t have the short, stocky, tall-tailed look of a Japanese.
Thank you! Yes, none of them do except my adult. They are younger so aren’t fully developed and I believe he doesn’t have the long legged gene like my adult does (thus causing his legs to be quite tall.)
But that could definitely be the cause of it, i have no idea. Its like a rainbow on his tail!
 
I thought it was iridescence at first but I noticed brown on top of one of the feathers and in the top right. Unless that is just the camera being weirdo.
I think it was just the camera, by one of the green feathers you can see it looks yellowish. It is more obvious if its bright out but it was a bit dim when i took the photo.
 
I think it was just the camera, by one of the green feathers you can see it looks yellowish. It is more obvious if its bright out but it was a bit dim when i took the photo.
Ok, so if that brown is just the camera, look at RRAs post. The bronzy color is just normal iridescence.
 

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