has anyone ever tried to breed a PURPLE chicken

[pdsavage]

I found one

It doesn't look very happy....

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Good find. I may have to borrow it.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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$200 says it won't work. Mahogany over gold with a diluting color like Lavender just makes for a buff type coloration, so you'll mainly have a bird with an orangey color and some Lavender leaking through, or a bird with a slight red or creamy yellow hint and Lavender coming through.

The best form of pink is likely with getting some mahogany red over white or silver in a Silkie, thus blurring the colors.

As for purple. . . Pretty sure it was said before, but all you need is a black chicken with poor quality feathering. Naturally they should be black with a green sheen, but poor growth can produce purple "bands" of color in the feather instead.

true... isabel coloring...

Isabel is lavender diluted buff. Lavender diluted mahogany red should be considerably darker and less orange in hue.

Illia, you're on--just give me a couple of years...

 

[WildAtHart]

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$200 says it won't work. Mahogany over gold with a diluting color like Lavender just makes for a buff type coloration, so you'll mainly have a bird with an orangey color and some Lavender leaking through, or a bird with a slight red or creamy yellow hint and Lavender coming through.

The best form of pink is likely with getting some mahogany red over white or silver in a Silkie, thus blurring the colors.

As for purple. . . Pretty sure it was said before, but all you need is a black chicken with poor quality feathering. Naturally they should be black with a green sheen, but poor growth can produce purple "bands" of color in the feather instead.

true... isabel coloring...

Isabel is lavender diluted buff. Lavender diluted mahogany red should be considerably darker and less orange in hue.

Illia, you're on--just give me a couple of years...

Do Poultry have the refractory layer in their feathers for those colors?
Working with Exotic birds(non Amazon exotic birds)with no structure in the feather to reflect any light to see blue, purple, red; Green up until recently wasn't seen but has now been appearing.

 

[Elsveta641]

I have a grey cat who looks very purple in the sun. So you could probably make a purplish chicken with grey ones. Or dip a white one in purple koolaid