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[hillbilly91]

I bet some Wingate hens looked a bit like this on the lighter side.

That looks like a red quill hen. Dark eyes, green leg, straight comb great looking bird

 

[sdm111]

It’s just what I had on my phone. Tomorrow I’ll show the front and each side on wed and thurs.

split the sides up into 2 days please for the suspense

 

[centrarchid]

That looks like a red quill hen. Dark eyes, green leg, straight comb great looking bird

She could throw light colored version of the red quill color pattern when bred to right roosters that themselves were not red quill, but she herself is not of the red quill color pattern or a representative of any Red Quill line. As she was, we called those like her brown reds. There was at least three hen colors we associated with brown red coloration on cock side.

 

[B123]

There was at least three hen colors we associated with brown red coloration on cock side.

I think the pattern is a spectrum. To me, brown reds and quills look similar, but with different shades of red and black.

 

[centrarchid]

I think the pattern is a spectrum. To me, brown reds and quills look similar, but with different shades of red and black.

You can distinguish red quill from any of the brown reds by getting down to level of feathers. Chicks in down are easiest but with proper feathers the red quill birds have a pattern on each feather that brown reds of all types lack. As adults the cock side of red quills has the least pattern, but you can still see little half moons scattered about breast.

I think the hen shown above involves wheaton hidden that gives the lighter monochromatic color.

 

[sdm111]

About as redquill as it gets

 

[centrarchid]

About as redquill as it gets

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As in an actual strain with name attached like Eslin?

 

[roosterhavoc]

split the sides up into 2 days please for the suspense

Oh that was the plan.

 

[sdm111]

As in an actual strain with name attached like Eslin?

all's I know them as is redquills. They put up the W's that's all we worried about

 

[sdm111]

Crossed with a blue makes a helluva cutter