Lemon Blue

[MoodyChicken]

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Oh, I really don't know. It's the gold form of Birchen if that helps. So whereever Birchen is...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

That would be E^R

 

[Krys109uk]

Yup....brown red = ER

 

[MoodyChicken]

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Hey, you seem to know you're stuff. What are the other color patterns? I know there's Crow Wing, Duckwing, Colombian.... ?

 

[Krys109uk]

Crowwing is ER,
duckwing is e+,
columbian can be on Wh (wheaten) or eb (brown).

And there's E which is extended black

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Well, duckwing is, I believe wildtype: e+

I don't know that columbian has an associated E-allele; it is a gene in its own right.

 

[MoodyChicken]

Really? Those are all the feather patterns? So... Mille Fleur would fall under one of those? One of the Columbian patterns with a mottling gene added in to the mix?

 

[Krys109uk]

Yes, mille fleur is usually on brown or wheaten

 

[MoodyChicken]

Cool, thanks!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

No, there are HUNDREDS of feather patterns. And you can make it even more confusing when 1) a single pattern can be called different names depending on the breed, or upon the country, 2) more than one pattern is called by the same name, but for different breeds or in different countries, 3) names based upon the genetics of the pattern don't necessarily match or give with Poultry Organization names, probably more ##s.

Columbian is also called light, as in light brahma.

Penciling means different thing for different breeds.

Grey=silver partridge=silver penciled

Porcelain is the lavender diluted version of the mille fleur pattern in hte US, but in some countries it is the name used for mille fleur.

Gold and golden are different in Europe, and indicate the homozygous versus heterozygous state; in hte US they are synonyms.

Self-blue is lavender--except not always.

There are a whole bunch of slightly different barring patterns, etc.