Questions about chicken colours

[NatJ]

All these questions are for a visual tool I'm making.
If beak/legs and hackles/saddles are always matching, they can use the same image layers, which is more efficient for code and bandwidth.
Realistic eye colour and sometimes-dark beaks aren't essential, but nice details to include, if I can figure out what causes them.

Ooh, sounds fun!

 

[MysteryChicken]

@MysteryChicken

Thank you. That's a gorgeous roo. So lemon chickens do exist.

@NatJ

Thanks for digging up those links. I'll have to do some asking around.

All these questions are for a visual tool I'm making.
If beak/legs and hackles/saddles are always matching, they can use the same image layers, which is more efficient for code and bandwidth.
Realistic eye colour and sometimes-dark beaks aren't essential, but nice details to include, if I can figure out what causes them.

You're welcome. Glad you're happy seeing a picture of a lemon colored chicken.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Wanna see a few of my Project Wheaten Crele Orpingtons I'm working on?

 

[GwynMil]

I'd love to! Still getting my head around the E locus.

'Crele' is e+ (duckwing) with barring, and 'Red Crele' is the same + Mh.
So you're basically creating wheaten with barring? Or am I wrong...

 

[MysteryChicken]

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I'd love to! Still getting my head around the E locus.

'Crele' is e+ (duckwing) with barring, and 'Red Crele' is the same + Mh.
So you're basically creating wheaten with barring? Or am I wrong...

Crele is actually more complex then breeding barred to Partridge since the first Orpingtons were actually buff, so most Orpingtons of different color still have wheaten genes hidden in their backgrounds.

My project birds.

This boy is gonna be culled.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'll be breeding out yellow skin, & extra comb points.