Hello! and welcome to the OEGB thread.

[WallabyOfChaos]

Ok so I have a question.
What color is this male and is he really an OEGB?

He looks like one, maybe a Self Blue? I had a Self Blue rooster last year that was kept outside and his hackle and saddle feathers got sun-bleached and turned a weird brassy color.

 

[Jharper]

He looks like one, maybe a Self Blue?  I had a Self Blue rooster last year that was kept outside and his hackle and saddle feathers got sun-bleached and turned a weird brassy color.

Really? Well he is a good bit BIGGER than my LBOEGB hen. I'm selling him Saturday at an auction.

 

[loveourbirds]

i was guessing hatchery bred self blue too. a lot of hatchery birds are larger than they should be, and the brassy color is common in hatchery birds.

 

[Jharper]

i was guessing hatchery bred self blue too. a lot of hatchery birds are larger than they should be, and the brassy color is common in hatchery birds.

Well I'm selling him Saturday and a not so good looking SDOEGB hen I got with him at the same auction.

 

[Jharper]

This is my SDWOEGB pullet. Her breast feathers aren't full colored. Since she is young could she molt those and have them come back the right color??

 

[WallabyOfChaos]

Mine was noticeably bigger than the rest of our OEGBs, but he wasn't enormous. They all came from Ideal and I have heard that hatchery OEGBs tend to be on the bigger side compared to show birds. I wish I had another picture of him, but here he is last June. It's not a great picture, but you can kind of just barely see the dirty brassy color on his saddle feathers. As summer went on the color became more pronounced. It was kind of funky - you could tell that the feathers used to be lavender but they had a dirty yellow cast to them. I read that white OEGBs should be kept inside or in very shaded runs to keep their color from yellowing, and we had a white rooster turn brassy in the same feathers so I just assumed the sun was to blame on the Self Blue roo too.

 

[Jharper]

Mine was noticeably bigger than the rest of our OEGBs, but he wasn't enormous. They all came from Ideal and I have heard that hatchery OEGBs tend to be on the bigger side compared to show birds. I wish I had another picture of him, but here he is last June. It's not a great picture, but you can kind of just barely see the dirty brassy color on his saddle feathers. As summer went on the color became more pronounced. It was kind of funky - you could tell that the feathers used to be lavender but they had a dirty yellow cast to them. I read that white OEGBs should be kept inside or in very shaded runs to keep their color from yellowing, and we had a white rooster turn brassy in the same feathers so I just assumed the sun was to blame on the Self Blue roo too.

Mine is looking more like a porcelain though.

 

[WallabyOfChaos]

Mine is looking more like a porcelain though.

Well that is a thinker. I hope someone else will chime in soon, because I am stumped.

 

[Jharper]

Well that is a thinker.  I hope someone else will chime in soon, because I am stumped.

Me 2!! LOL!! :/

 

[loveourbirds]

i don't have porcelain oegbs but I do have them in d'anvers. I think porcelains are supposed to have a darker tail. im leaning towards self blue/lavender. brassy colors are a common problem in breeding.