Scientific, cross-platform color chart for egg and plumage colors of chickens

[ChicKat]

BYC member DCchicken has ideas about a coloration system specifically for chickens - focus on the Cream Legbar- but probably colors would work for other breeds.

This thread is started for discussion of the new ideas about evaluating colors in the world of Poultry.

 

[Ridgerunner]

For egg shell colors this might be handy.

http://www.maranschickenclubusa.com/files/eggreview.pdf

I find this simplistic but handy for plumage pattern and color.

http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

There is a lot of detail in this.

http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl

Or are you maybe talking about a rating system for color?

 

[Henk69]

There are 4 aspects of a chicken color:

1. groundcolor (silver/cream/isabel/gold/red)
2. pattern- or eumelanin-color (black/blue/white/chocolate/lavender/khaki/mauve/beige)
3. the pattern/distribution of the eumelanin (eg Partridge/columbian/laced/autosomal barred/solid/self etc...)
4. overlay pattern (like mottled or sexlinked barred or both and maybe recessive white)

 

[cjwaldon]

This is going to be fun, I can tell. I would love to see a color chart that includes feather colors. What does a salmon breast look like? What color is cream?

 

[Coopacabana]

Are you thinking something like this for chickens? http://majnouna.deviantart.com/art/Guide-to-Cat-Colors-Patterns-91579716

 

[Coopacabana]

There are 4 aspects of a chicken color:

1. groundcolor (silver/cream/isabel/gold/red)
2. pattern- or eumelanin-color (black/blue/white/chocolate/lavender/khaki/mauve/beige)
3. the pattern/distribution of the eumelanin (eg Partridge/columbian/laced/autosomal barred/solid/self etc...)
4. overlay pattern (like mottled or sexlinked barred or both and maybe recessive white)

what is the difference between isabel & cream?

 

[nicalandia]

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Isabel is a Phonetype where autosomal lavender(lav/lav) Dilutes the entire body of the bird, including its gold/red ground color, recessive cream only dilutes the gold/red color.. just to make sure you guys dont get confuse, isabel and cream are both autosomla and are not elleles of sex linked gold/silver, here an Isabel Leghorn

 

[3riverschick]

That's absolutely stunning, nicalandia. I can't remember ever seeing a bird with lav
that was this beautiful.

It looks like an Llandro sculpture.
http://p2.la-img.com/1001/31653/12513207_1_l.jpg
Wow!
Karen

 

[Coopacabana]

nicalandia- thanks for answering my question & wow is that a beautiful rooster!

 

[nicalandia]

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now here they are on eb(gold partridge, pencilled) bantam brahman....
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