Highlight light brown color on white bresse?

[CNJ]

My Bresse cockerel has a highlighted vaguely light brown color on the top part, is this common? Its not pure white.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

It’s leakage/brassiness. He’s not lavender.
You can see some of the same color on this mixed bantam rooster.

 

[speedy2020]

My Bresse cockerel has a highlighted vaguely light brown color on the top part, is this common? Its not pure white.View attachment 2502368

My rooster the cream color show up when the bird getting around 1 year. If you are lucky, the bared white (WHI

My Bresse cockerel has a highlighted vaguely light brown color on the top part, is this common? Its not pure white.View attachment 2502368

My rooster cream back color shown up around 8 months old. If you ever has barred (white strips & cream strips pattern), keep it. I regretted butch that rooster few years ago due to the rooster fight among themselves.

 

[Fireside Acres]

I have whites, blacks, and lavenders and I cull for yellow/brown in my whites. If he is getting color in his tail as well maybe he is a lavender? They can look light tan.

 

[CNJ]

I have whites, blacks, and lavenders and I cull for yellow/brown in my whites. If he is getting color in his tail as well maybe he is a lavender? They can look light tan.

Okay thanks for the information. I have three different age batches of white Bresse chickens that I ordered from three different farms. I do have a batch with one male and one female that are pure white. The last batch of four are too young to tell, they are only three weeks old. The legs on the last batch are just turning blue.

 

[Fireside Acres]

The colors definitely change - fun isn't it? I have older all white Bresse, and these new babies that are 8 weeks and 3 weeks old.

 

[CNJ]

The colors definitely change - fun isn't it? I have older all white Bresse, and these new babies that are 8 weeks and 3 weeks old.

I just found this video on youtube, the white bresse chicken has a little tan color , looks like my chicken. Also, in a slow motion close up shot ,while one of the roosters were lifting up his feet to walk, you can see that his feet is crooked. Lol....the tan line is flawed.

 

[Burdi]

If the bresse are being bred mainly for meat I would accept a minor color flaw or imperfect toes if the trade off was a great eating bird with good feed conversion, vigor, etc..

If you are breeding to a SOP there is little wiggle room for structure, color, etc.. People breeding to SOP are critically important to preserve and improve each variety.

I Have not yet tried to breed to SOP. I would have to fall absolutely in love with a particular variety to make that commitment.

 

[CNJ]

I have one that has crooked toes and black bleeding through and a little black on one tail. However, his body type is much bigger than the rusty one and he is two weeks younger. I am more concerned about body type then feather color.

I plan on crossing a clean white Bresse chicken with a white Plymouth rock latter this year. Two different pairs from different farms and then breed the off springs together like they do to develop the Jumbo Cornish x Rock......

 

[ColtHandorf]

I would agree that the color you're seeing is just brassiness/leakage. It can be caused from sunlight, high percentage of corn in their feed, genetics, or a combination of the above. I wouldn't be overly concerned with it in a breed developed specifically for the table. If you're planning on showing wait until after a molt and see if the feathers come in white, or if the new feathers display that color.