Rhode Island Blue

[DLaw33]

I can't figure out where the cream colors come from on this young RIB he has a black sibling with the same color on her breast and hackles

 

[DLaw33]

Here she is

 

[DLaw33]

Sorry for the double post

 

[JCinNM]

My Sweet Georgia Brown. RIB. Hasn’t started laying yet but I keep asking her every day, and bribing her with nummies!
So curious as to why her legs and skin are black. RIR certainly don’t have black skin. And my searching on Australian Orpingtons doesn’t mention black skin. Can anyone help?
(Just FYI, my Silkie Roo does NOT have black skin. Thinking he is a Cochin mix. Think I just have a wonderful flock of misfits.)

 

[Crestcrazy2]

My Sweet Georgia Brown. RIB. Hasn’t started laying yet but I keep asking her every day, and bribing her with nummies!
So curious as to why her legs and skin are black. RIR certainly don’t have black skin. And my searching on Australian Orpingtons doesn’t mention black skin. Can anyone help?
(Just FYI, my Silkie Roo does NOT have black skin. Thinking he is a Cochin mix. Think I just have a wonderful flock of misfits.)View attachment 2466368View attachment 2466369View attachment 2466370View attachment 2466371View attachment 2466368View attachment 2466369View attachment 2466370View attachment 2466371

Is it possible she's a black sex link?

 

[TJAnonymous]

My Sweet Georgia Brown. RIB. Hasn’t started laying yet but I keep asking her every day, and bribing her with nummies!
So curious as to why her legs and skin are black. RIR certainly don’t have black skin. And my searching on Australian Orpingtons doesn’t mention black skin. Can anyone help?
(Just FYI, my Silkie Roo does NOT have black skin. Thinking he is a Cochin mix. Think I just have a wonderful flock of misfits.)View attachment 2466368View attachment 2466369View attachment 2466370View attachment 2466371View attachment 2466368View attachment 2466369View attachment 2466370View attachment 2466371

I have 5 Black Australorps that I ordered from McMurray Hatchery in late summer. All 5 of them have black skin and slate grey legs

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I can't figure out where the cream colors come from on this young RIB he has a black sibling with the same color on her breast and hackles

Do you have updated pictures of him? That color (golden) is probably from the australorp. All chickens carry silver or gold genes, even if they don’t show silver or gold. The australorp passed on a silver gene to him and the RIR passed on a gold gene, resulting in that golden (or gold/silver split) coloration.

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

I find this hybrid cross name strangely disturbing. I hope nobody thinks that purebred Rhode Island Reds can come in blue!

 

[BleuSaphir]

I find this hybrid cross name strangely disturbing. I hope nobody thinks that purebred Rhode Island Reds can come in blue!

What about the Rhode Island White, a distinct breed of Rhode Island Red?

I want know who came with the names of these breeds. lol

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

What about the Rhode Island White, a distinct breed of Rhode Island Red?

I want know who came with the names of these breeds. lol

Yes, the situation the Rhode Island White makes it confusing enough, especially when hatcheries sell "single comb rhode island whites" that don't resemble the distinctive type of a RIR at all but are nothing more than hybrid crosses like these blue ones. Naming these hybrid crosses like this makes them sound like a breed ie variety that breeds true-- they don't. They're only another creative hatchery hybrid. I'm sure they lay quite well and it's a refreshing change from red and white hybrid layers, just be fully aware that they're cross bred and will have great variability and if you breed them they will not breed true.