Lavender or Double Dilute?

[mistfall]

This is a hatchery Easter Egger Americauna from the feed store that I picked out because her down color was different from her brooder-mates.

With her Black diluted to gray and her red diluted to lemony-buff, I wonder if she’s Lavender. Or maybe Blue + Dilute?

Every other chick looked like the typical hatchery basic eb (brown).

 

[ChickNanny13]

She's an EE, coloring is different, wouldn't consider it a lavender but I'm for what others say... She sure is pretty

 

[The Moonshiner]

Beautiful pattern but I don't believe its lavender.
Lavender is a very even dilute. I see some very light areas and then some darker ones. With my experience there isn't that much variation in shades when lavender.
Also lavender dilutes gold tones. Her gold tones would be a lot lighter if she carried lavender.

 

[Sneebsey]

Not lavender. The head is too rich a buff tone. My guess is that she is wild-type, blue, with incomplete colombian. Dilute is not impossible, but I would expect the entirety of her gold to be affected by it. The wildtype base would account for the extra pigment in the head and breast; a wildtype hen is generally darker in these areas. Blue can affect pheomelanin to various degrees, and she appears to be a light-morph blue therefore I would expect a stronger impact on the pheomelanin to begin with.

 

[mistfall]

Good to know about blue affecting pheomelanin; I hadn’t heard that.

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[Sneebsey]

I believe this pullet to have dilute, hence the even colour of her non-blue plumage. See how whilst your girl is a deeper gold in the breast and neck, this one has that same buff tone throughout.

Blue has only a minor effect on pheomelanin, but I find that in light-morphs (blue can be various shades), like both mine and yours', the effect is far more noticeable.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Always learning on BYC Love the knowledge & information Members share

 

[chickendreams24]

I've had and do have more than one girl that looked and look like that.

I love their coloring and they make some truly amazingly colored chicks.