How Do I Describe This Boyo?

[avidity]

I have what might possibly be the most beautiful chick in the county, but whenever I try to describe it, all I can come up with is, "it's like mostly this super white, you know, with like these shapely bits of color around, you know, not spots exactly but like very nice, but also there's black with gold flecks at the end, and brown but not a boring brown, and it's just like super pretty colors, but mostly, you know, like, white." Very intellectual.

I've been looking for a picture dictionary of chicken colors/varieties without luck. Surely one exists? The closest thing I could find is that handy genetics calculator. I think it's above my reading level.

The magnificent chick in question is a seven-week-old serama mutt, probably cockerel. Is there a standardized way to describe this boy, spoken perhaps over a classy glass of wine at the largest international white tie event for sophisticated chicken-keepers?

Or just, you know, anything better than what I've come up with? I would mega appreciate that, too. Thanks in advance!

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

I think genetically it'd be considered a "high white mille fluer" or a heavy mottle mille fluer, I see some brown in there so it's not black mottle, paint, and it's not a splash! He's gorgeous : D

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Looks most like mottled to me. He will be a beautiful rooster when he gets all his feathering.

 

[JedJackson]

Speckled white? He's not really any standard color pattern because his genes are very mixed. It's possible that his coloring will look different when he matures.

 

[Quaicken108]

Looks most like mottled to me. He will be a beautiful rooster when he gets all his feathering.

Agreed.

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

Agreed.

If you look closely on his back you can see brown, not only black so he wouldn't just be a black mottled. Is there another name for a mottled bird on a non-black base besides mille fluer?

 

[Sally PB]

it's like mostly this super white, you know, with like these shapely bits of color around, you know, not spots exactly but like very nice, but also there's black with gold flecks at the end, and brown but not a boring brown, and it's just like super pretty colors, but mostly, you know, like, white."

May I suggest this edit:

"He's a gorgeous pure white, with shapely bits of color --[that sounds very high brow, btw]-- and flecks of black and brown and gold. Truly, words do not do him justice. Look at the pictures instead."

Pass around the phone and sip your wine while people oooo and ahhhh.

 

[AntiqueB]

So gorgeous, whatever name you give the color!

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

He’s a mixed color, so it can’t be fully described. He does have mottling, so you can call him mottled. Or “heavily mottled” since he has a lot of white. He does have what appears to be a messy/mixed mille fleur or calico pattern, but I don’t think that’s the most sophisticated or exact description.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'd go with Calico