Olive-gray feather color

[Croatia0103]

Hello, I have a dilemma regarding the true name of the color of this hen (first photo). It is a 5-year-old excellent layer and broody hen.

Her great-grandfather is the bantam from the second photo (photo from 2008), we got him as a gift when we were children and the questionable great-granddaughter wears his feather color. She was created by his accidental crossing with black Australorps but still has his double crest.

This year she gave us a son, crossed with our purebred Columbian Brahma rooster (last 3 pictures). The little rooster wears her color.

Does anyone the name of that color, and know how i can preserve that ancient grayish-green color of theirs? I would like to have a flock of Brahmas in that color, i planned to cross this new rooster with black and lemon-pyle purebred Brahmas. Maybe blue ones too.

I know that splash and lavender Brahma already exist, but what i would like to create is a slightly different shade of feathers. After moulting every fall, that hen looks literally olive green .

Thanks!

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[MysteryChicken]

She's a dirty paint. She's got black flecks in her feathers, which means she's dominant white. Same with the rooster.

I figured out dirty paints are caused by Autosomal Red, it gives the dingy appearance.

 

[Croatia0103]

She's a dirty paint. She's got black flecks in her feathers, which means she's dominant white. Same with the rooster.

I figured out dirty paints are caused by Autosomal Red, it gives the dingy appearance.

Thanks, i can see in another post on this forum that Autosomal Red appears in Dutch bantams, that dirty effect would actually be a shadow on white. I also see that some breeders want to get rid of this phenomenon, i don't.

I love it when some bantam characteristic are transferred to bigger breeds.

In addition to her offspring with a Brahma rooster, there are also two pullets in a cross with a gold-partridge Italian rooster (with this one from my profile picture). One pullet is a lighter gold partridge with a blue tail and a normal crest, and the other a silver partridge with strong feather-contrasts and a total double crest
similar to Sicilian buttercup.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Thanks, i can see in another post on this forum that Autosomal Red appears in Dutch bantams, that dirty effect would actually be a shadow on white. I also see that some breeders want to get rid of this phenomenon, i don't.

I love it when some bantam characteristic are transferred to bigger breeds.

In addition to her offspring with a Brahma rooster, there are also two pullets in a cross with a gold-partridge Italian rooster (with this one from my profile picture). One pullet is a lighter gold partridge with a blue tail and a normal crest, and the other a silver partridge with strong feather-contrasts and a total double crest
similar to Sicilian buttercup.

The Autosomal Red effect on dominant white is kind of interesting really.

The chickens in your profile picture look like Duckwing, rather then partridge.
You mean comb, not crest. Crest is also known is Topknot which is the floof of feathers on the head of a Polish, or Silkie chicken.

 

[Croatia0103]

The Autosomal Red effect on dominant white is kind of interesting really.

The chickens in your profile picture look like Duckwing, rather then partridge.
You mean comb, not crest. Crest is also known is Topknot which is the floof of feathers on the head of a Polish, or Silkie chicken.

Yes, i meant comb , in the Croatian language "Krijesta" means comb. That's why i always make the same mistake and use the word crest for comb.

You are right, that color looks more like red/gold duck wing than partridge. But it's a standard color, and they're purebreds.

I am attaching several photos of our "partridge" Italians. The last two photos are of above mentioned double-comb chicken (half Italian). The morning showed that it is a rooster after all, and that the comb would not be completely double. No one knows what he will look like in the end

 

[MysteryChicken]

Yes, i meant comb , in the Croatian language "Krijesta" means comb. That's why i always make the same mistake and use the word crest for comb.

You are right, that color looks more like red/gold duck wing than partridge. But it's a standard color, and they're purebreds.

I am attaching several photos of our "partridge" Italians. The last two photos are of above mentioned double-comb chicken (half Italian). The morning showed that it is a rooster after all, and that the comb would not be completely double. No one knows what he will look like in the end

Those are Duckwing.
Welsummer chickens are also called Red Partridge, though they're genetically Duckwing.

The chick has a Carnation comb.

 

[Croatia0103]

So, in the spring i will cross that young half-Brahma rooster with Lemon Pyle, Buff Laced, Gold Laced and Silver Laced Brahma hens. I will attach the pictures here, we will see how Autosomal Red will react in each combination.

 

[MysteryChicken]

So, in the spring i will cross that young half-Brahma rooster with Lemon Pyle, Buff Laced, Gold Laced and Silver Laced Brahma hens. I will attach the pictures here, we will see how Autosomal Red will react in each combination.

Sounds good.