Pink Chickens

[Project Blue]

I was trying to breed pink ameraucana type chickens until a pitbull wiped out all my stock except a couple of half frozen eggs. I got one to hatch, that one turned out to be a yellow tinged low blue marked splash hen with great conformation and feathers. The pictured roo was hatched with a bunch of much better conformation/feathered wheaton colored chicks but had a very pink breast, (hard to see in pics) and a very pale grey tail. His father was an isabel roo. Currently I'm trying to recreate where I left off and got some eggs from someone I gave chickens to before my disaster. She has one wheaton roo from the same hatch as this roo and three hens from my stock 1 from the same hatch and a 4 other breeds. So now I have a bunch of solid black, 4 red EE looking, 4 silver and 1 lavender hen chick, that I'm only sure of the roo being from my line. So...If you're still following, what would be the best cross for the splash hen to get a pink colored chicken? She is the only chicken purely from my line.

Also, on a side note. One of the black chicks started out as a red chick. At first it was easily distinguished from all the other chicks as it was beautiful red chick, but the feathers came in black. I wanted to keep it, as I thought it might have some cool recessive genes but it only took a day or so for the head feathers to turn black and he just disappeared into the black chick group. Is this a normal thing? I know black angus cows can have changelings but was surprised to see a chick do this.

 

[Beau plus penny]

this is actually so interesting

 

[The Moonshiner]

You have a picture of any chicken you're calling "pink" cause I've never seen any even close to a pink color.

 

[Beau plus penny]

You have a picture of any chicken you're calling "pink" cause I've never seen any even close to a pink color.

i think youd need to get lavender in there somewhere to get the purpley tones and then get to pink from there somehow i could be wrong what do i know

 

[Project Blue]

You have a picture of any chicken you're calling "pink" cause I've never seen any even close to a pink color.

If you look close the "pink" is what looks like white in the picture. He's the only one I have a picture of, not anticipating a determined pit bull I didn't take good pictures. It looked pink in person. I think what I'm looking for genetically is a double dilute of the saddle color red you see on the roo. A more orangey red I think you wind up with buff color. I think that roo might be called a red pyle colored chicken but I think only a few breeds like game chickens have that color and I don't think the breast is pink but white in those.

I did succeed breeding pink guppies from unimproved guppies I inherited from my 99.9 year old grandmother who let them breed willy nilly for over 50 years. At the time, there was only pink pingus guppies, which are just albinos with red eyes. Mine were bred from casually picking the pinkest with the highest sheen over 20 years. Mine have dark eyes...Anyhow, since I was breeding my own replacement chickens over the years I decided to breed a heavier, bigger better egg laying, sex linked ameraucana with pastel colors. I'm doing this on a very small scale so any fatality is a catastrophe. Earlier when I had an impressive flock I lost my rooster and my hens were aging out, so this is a second try at doing something interesting from a line of chickens that has almost died out twice. I'm way behind on all fronts after my flock was slaughtered. The chicks I got from my desperate reconstruction were unexpected and common except the one splash hen. I was really surprised by the number of dark chicks and marked up reds. Previously bars and checks were bred out.