Need help ID'ing the color of a BS hen

[KsKingBee]

I don't know if this picture is of any help, but it is supposed to be a four year old Purple Black Shoulder hen and her daughter also from a PBS/Spaulding cock. If you want any better detail pics just let me know.

 

[DylansMom]

I don't know if this picture is of any help, but it is supposed to be a four year old Purple Black Shoulder hen and her daughter also from a PBS/Spaulding cock. If you want any better detail pics just let me know.

On the very back of Mom's neck and head is there any blue, green or purple coloring? Seeing her neck in the sun would help. In the meantime, this is what I came home with.

 

[KsKingBee]

I am going out now to take another pic for you. Did you bring home three birds? Would you describe color and age of each for me? The BS hen on the right is a lot darker than my PBS hen I think.

 

[DylansMom]

I am going out now to take another pic for you. Did you bring home three birds? Would you describe color and age of each for me? The BS hen on the right is a lot darker than my PBS hen I think.

Okay, the older male is either coming 2 or coming 3, not sure. The younger ones are 5-6 months a male and a hen. Out in the sun the older male is obviously Purple BS Pied. The younger male doesn't have as much purple on the neck, it's more blue/green, but he's a baby yet. Father is supposed to be Purple BS Pied carrying Midnight genes, mother was supposed to be Peach, was nowhere near Peach. She had feathers on the back of her neck that were very teal green in color, I didn't see the purple there like I see on my Purple Barred wing hens. I am not certain if mom was Purple or midnight or perhaps same as dad Purple carrying Midnight. There was another chick that was not for sale and I really would have liked to have gotten him, very different than these, much darker coloring. You are right, she does look darker than your hens.

 

[KsKingBee]

I should have made the hen get off the roost, on the ground I may have gotten a better pic.





Daughter, mother, and son.




These eyes do not seem to have the purple that I see in pics online, should I be concerned or will the change color as the mature?

 

[KsKingBee]

I don't see blue or green on the back of her head or neck.

 

[Garden Peas]

I should have made the hen get off the roost, on the ground I may have gotten a better pic.





Daughter, mother, and son.




These eyes do not seem to have the purple that I see in pics online, should I be concerned or will the change color as the mature?

See, you are running into the same problem I have when taking photos with my cell phone... these wonderful new-fangled digital cameras start doing fancy exposure compensation and correction before it ever takes the picture... and the same thing being photographed looks totally and completely different (including, for me, huge color changes) depending on the light and the background light. Soooo frustrating

I took photos of fabric in two different fabric stores the other day, trying to get the equivalent of swatches, and I have multiple shots of the same piece of fabric that you can't even tell ARE the same fabric, depending on which way I had the camera turned.

As for those eyes, I think purple is one of those colors that really changes in different lights... when the bird is outside in the sunlight, do you see purple? And are those "new" or "old" feathers?

 

[DylansMom]

I don't see blue or green on the back of her head or neck.

Purple? Or is it just the gold/brown color? The hen I saw had obvious color back there. As for your/his eye feathers, I think it does lighten and become more purple as the season progresses.

 

[DylansMom]

I should have made the hen get off the roost, on the ground I may have gotten a better pic.





Daughter, mother, and son.




These eyes do not seem to have the purple that I see in pics online, should I be concerned or will the change color as the mature?

That third picture makes her look a lot darker, this is what is so difficult in identifying by photo!

 

[Garden Peas]

Hard to photograph, helps to have natural light and be positioned where the light is reflecting off the bird towards the camera

Viewed from the other direction, the "sheen" is not as noticeable, and viewed from farther away, the hen's neck feathers don't appear dark...