Mauve Orpington or Mauve/Chocolate Laced?

[Petuniaspearls44]

Hey there! I’m new to the forums but not super new to chickens.
This one is throwing me. My mom (who raised chickens for years) gave me a bunch of chicks.
One of which is this mauve Orpington project she had been working on for sometime.
The bird is absolutely stunning and these pictures do no justice to her color. My husband named her Rosie.

I’m just lost. Is she mauve or chocolate laced?
In the photos, she almost looks lavender but I assure you... she is a pinky brown. Craziest thing ever.

also... is there any combinations that I could use her in for some other beautiful babies?

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Can we please see some pictures?

 

[Petuniaspearls44]

Can we please see some pictures?

Yes! So sorry! They weren’t loading into my post

 

[EEforMe]

You can use this link to show her real color if you want!
https://g.co/kgs/5ebLgg

 

[Strange Hatter Farms]

I have one similar

 

[Strange Hatter Farms]

I’m not super good at coloring, but I believe mine is mauve splash and yours is lavender splash

 

[Strange Hatter Farms]

Unless you have better pictures? Yours looks grey to me in your posted pictures

 

[YardMoa]

She looks mauve to me. Mauve is the combination of sex-linked chocolate and andalusian blue. The "lacing" on her feathers is the effect of chocolate gene and melanotic, it's the same edging you see on blues.

If you breed her to a black rooster the chicks will all be blacks and blues, with all the cockerels carrying, but not showing recessive chocolate. Pullets are either chocolate or they are not because they only get a single copy of the gene. Because the father won't have it neither will the daughters.

If you breed one of those cockerels back to Rosie you will get some chocolate of both sexes, some of which will likely be mauve.

 

[Silkie Princess]

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[Poultrybonkers]

They are a washed out blue not mauve at all