Need help understanding this feather pattern-New close-up pictures

[Chris09]

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The Orpington roosters are Blue and Black, so she probably got the leg color from them. The mother was either a Buff Orpington or RIR

Her comb is a normal single type (sorry, to new to know just how it is to be properly explained, but someone is more than welcomed to educate me,

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Sorry about that I dont know what I was thinking... Black Orps do have black legs and Blue Orps have slate..

Chris

 

[ve]

Both RIR and Buff Orpington carry Columbian gene.Are you sure the boy from other post is not son of one of them?I checked and now am sure that Buffs carry Dark Brown-it makes yelow non striped neck in your hen.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Camp/BRKCampine.html shows campines, both gold and silver. The bird posted by OP is not quite this pattern, closest to it at the back. At the front it apppears to be double laced, somewhat like a barnevelder.

The bird looks young; I am wondering if it will become completely double laced after another molt or two.

 

[Krys109uk]

I think pattern gene in buffs is not uncommon.

 

[walkswithdog]

That's normal juvenille partridge coloring - the barring goes leaving pencilled feather only. Since pullet breasts feather in with mature feathers quicker you see pencilling on the breast first. Cute little pullet.

So there's pg, pattern gene, behind one of the boys. The barred juvenille feathering will be replaced by pencilled feathers. It's incomplete pg from the look of the stipling to the breast pencilling (kinda dotted look to the pencil line). Half way to partridge orps with that one

Now you need a bird with a full copy of pg to get better pencilled birds.

Go Partridge!

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

To me the color reminds me of a partridge x gold pencilled (as in hamburg) because of the lacing and barring but I have no clue. It would be cool to duplicate that pattern.

 

[tberggren]

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The Splash has to be his mother as she was in a enclosed pen by herself sitting on some shipped Marans eggs that did not hatch (they were all rotten) the only chick to hatch was from a light brown egg that she obviously laid after being put in the pen.

There is no way any other hen could get in there much less in and back out without anyone knowing. I've used this broody pen several times and no one has been able to get in or out. So the Splash Orpington that hatched him must be the mother.

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She is young only about 14 weeks old, it would be cool if she ended up double laced then I could breed her to a Buff Orpington

I LOVE GL Orpingtons

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Partridge Orpingtons would be cool also, but I know nothing about partridge birds or what direction to take if she in fact does become partridge.

Educate me folks!!

 

[TurtleFeathers]

Not trying to hijack this thread, just trying to understand, because I have a pullet that is similar - as you can see below, she's starting to lose her markings tho. She hatched from a blue egg in May - her father was a golden duckwing type EE roo, and her mother was either a splash EE silkie cross or a white columbian EE. I can't figure out where she came from, and I don't know what she's going to look like when fully mature:

But again, my bird is only 3 months old - how old is the bird in the original post?

 

[tberggren]

I decided to try to get some close up shots for you all to examine.
This is the back

And a close up shot of the back

A close-up of the rump

And a close-up of the breast

So what do you think?? A partridge?

 

[Krys109uk]

So what do you think?? A partridge?

Not really. I think what ve said seems the most likely. As the mother was either buff orp or RIR she will be at least het for wheaten (eWh)columbian (Co) & dark brown columbian (Db). It would seem possible that the father was het for ER (gold birchen) thus she would ER/eWh. She appears to have pattern gene (Pg); it is not that unusual for buffs to have Pg (I don't know whether this is also true for RIR); it cannot be beyond the realms of possibiliy that the father was also carrying Pg & as both of the possible fathers were carrying Co were they not? It is possible she has inherited another copy of any of those from the father.

It will be interesting to see whether she develops the concentric lacing (pencilling) on the rest of her body. But she is not the 'usual' genotype for partridge.

As an after thought. A lot can be observed in chick down colour. What colour was she at hatch & what markings, if any, did she have?​