Is this Khaki

[tingle]

Hi I posted a pix the other week to ask if my little hen is Khaki (I am trying to get chocolates)I have got a better pix of her in the daylight I dont know anything about the colour of parents as she is one I bought in

 

[Blue Ribbon Bantams]

she looks porcelainish if that was a word idk but shes really pretty what are you going to breed her to? i dont think she is khaki tho.
i wonder if you bred her to some blacks what you would get.....

 

[DANNY]

She looks either kahki or light chocolate. She really don't look as light as my kahki polish or o.e.

 

[Keri78]

MY VOTE...PRETTY!!!(is that an official color???)

 

[tingle]

Thanks for the help,Here is another hen I bought from the same breeder she is like a pearly grey porcellaine (silkie serama)They are on the big side for serama and not the best quality but it was the colours I liked,my intention was to put the khaki? to my black cochin b

antams to try for chocolate cochins

 

[DANNY]

Porcelain is a lavender base with yellow tint with mottling. I can't see any of this in either picture. But certain colors are hard to get a good picture of.

 

[tingle]

Thanks Danny, she certainly isnt porcellaine then lol.She is more of a pearly grey but the colour doesnt show up well her feathers also have a sparlkly look to them if that makes sense

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

The first hen looks khaki; the 2nd looks lavender (or possibly splash--is that a dark feather in the tail? If so, splash). As was stated, sometimes it is difficult to get photos to show what is easily seen in person.

Khaki carries two copies of the dun gene whereas chocolate has one. Except of course that there is also the choc gene, which c reates a colouring similar to dun-based chocolate. Dun is incompletely dominant; choc is sex-linked recessive. Khaki cannot be achieved with choc, only with dun. Fawn seems to refer to either khaki or chocolate--I never have figured out why the standards committee did that.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I agree, first hen looks khaki. I see some buff-ish color on her, I wonder how that will pass on to the offspring.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

yes the first hen is Khaki an and if bred to a black roo you should get dun witch here in the states is sometimes called chocolate... i would say the second hen is splash so if bred to the same black roo you would get blue...