Would this be like a Palomino? One needs a chestnut horse and a Cremello which acts as the diluting gene on the Cheatnut to give that yellow body with white mane and tail Palomino.
Blue doesn't necessarily have the poor quality feathers, it is the lavender specifically that are prone to that. Regarding @Sally PB , it may be just poor breeding, or maybe they were lavender, not blue? How deep was the coloring?And yet my three ‘blue’ (or I call them grey) ladies have lovely feathers. Thick luxurious and glossy. Maybe they are not blue…? Maybe they are something else
I don't have the bird anymore, but I'm suspicious she was lavender, not blue.
Variations of red and yellow chickens - when I hear wheaten I think of wheat yellow gold bales of wheat straw!
Hey she had fun! I would join her!
Ok a bale of oat straw (lighter in colour than wheat) and a chestnut coloured pony. Gotcha!
I used to have budgies as a kid and there was one colour which was prone to feather fraying so one never bred those colours.
Well, sigh, I was just offered the Guinea's last night. They have had them for 2 weeks and cannot stand the noise. Apparently it is triggering her husbands ptsd. They are also never staying home. I wish I could take them, I would in a heart beat, but it is not feasible for me to do so. I admit to being smitten with them. I also fully understand my late uncles desire to have them. This past spring/summer he was trying to find Guinea eggs for me to hatch for him. His whole reasoning was he wanted to tick off a few neighbors. I never understood that, now I do. Ugh, I miss that man, there was a reason he was my favorite uncle.
YES!
