Is this gold dillute?

[fuzzybutt love]

isn't columbian a clean breasted color? He is identical to his daddy, except where the black was the blue is on him. His dad had black spots on his chest. He was almost white as a youngster but in his second year he got a lot of black. Both he and his father were white chipmunks as chicks...

So how would i know if he had a dilute then? I assumed a dilute would not show the red in the shoulders? Is he a blue columbian then, or a duckwing?



This is daddy, son is identical in markings to dad as a youngster.

Off topic but is there anything special about brown based colors? Could i breed them to look similar to chocolates? The other chick that i have been watching from that hatching was an all brown chick. She's looking pretty but i don't know what color to even breed her with, all the other babies i've had were wild type chipmunks. She was the only brown base, though i have another with almost identical markings

 

[Chris09]

I would like to see a better picture of the son but from I can see he look a lot like a smutty white with blue hackles.
Columbian pattern fowl can have smut in the breast like your rooster (the sire) or it can be clean breasted.
Also from the pictures that you posted I would say neither the sire or the son are Duck-Wing since they don't have color in in there wing bay.

Chris

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

'll post some picturesw later when I get home, but my flock has several shades of the red, from dark to lemon. Can't wait to get feedback from you.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Idk i thought since the body was white, and the bay was white? From what i've read the generic EE's are often silver duckwing with "gold leakage" from the mother being a gold hen and the dad being the silver; Whatever the color is it is stunning! I am not sure whether i liked the beetle green better or the blue.

My EE birds are all mutts, so no "pure" colors regardless but on the flip side they can give you just about any color under the sun! I like the mystery. Eventually i will pick a certain look and breed for it, right now i am just looking at possibilites. I know for a fact that i like chocolate colors, dun colors, blues, lavs, and of course lemons. My roo in his prime looked pretty similar to a lemon citron rooster. Very pretty color! I wish we had more lemons in the US.