Green vs. Slate legs

[cashdl]

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No, slate legs don't only have white soles. You can have slate legs with yellow soles. My black araucana with slate legs have clearly yellow, not white, soles of their feet.

If I can wrangle up the right birds (they can be hard to catch once they free range) I can take a picture of a willow legged bird next to a slate legged bird on a white background (the bathroom tub

). It is a striking difference, very easy to see how the two are dissimilar.

Araucana don't have slate legs, they have dark willow to black legs due to the yellow skin. White skinned birds have slate to black legs due to the white skin. Slate comes from blue over white skin and dark willow is blue over yellow skin. Confusing but you can usually tell by looking at the bottoms of the feet. It is a terminology thing. When you have a yellow skinned bird the color is not called slate.


Lanae

 

[Stacykins]

Thanks Lanae! I thought they were slate, but that definitely makes sense. Still trying to wrap my head around leg genetics!

I am not the best photographer at all, but I added pictures to my previous post. They were just taken twenty minutes ago. I hope they clearly show the difference. I added in a shot of sole colors too on both the participating boys! So the one with the legs I thought were slate aren't really slate. If he had white soles, then they'd be slate

 

[bloom_ss]

I only have one EE with slate colored legs. All of my others have the green legs. Here is a picture of Brunhilda (right) and Friendly (left):

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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I have several young EEs with green legs that have white soles. I also have a couple of EEs with slate legs (and white soles). I actually only have one EE with green legs and yellow soles.

 

[cashdl]

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You would have what I would consider black, but may actually be correctly termed dark willow because you can see the yellow under the darker color.


Lanae

 

[cashdl]

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I have several young EEs with green legs that have white soles. I also have a couple of EEs with slate legs (and white soles). I actually only have one EE with green legs and yellow soles.

Yellow and blue make green, so if you have an EE with green legs they have to have yellow skin ( and yellow skin means yellow soles) even though it doesn't look yellow. Slate is the blue over a white skinned bird, so you would have slate legs and white soles.

Lanae

 

[babyrnlc]

Here is one with yellow legs! (She was a rescue found in an alley in the city.)

Cindy's are greenish, but dark, so they almost look slate:

This is buffy, a buff orpington/tru Ameracauna cross, she has slate legs:

This is Pamela, I know she is an EE because she lays sage colored eggs, but otherwise looks Ameracauna with slate legs:

 

[susanp970]

What beautiful chickens