Thanks fur and featherShe almost looks like she could have some cuckoo in her with brown or dun. Your bottom picture looks like a gray to me. I call the gray coloring that has penciling a silver partridge (because partridge is supposed to have penciling) and the gray coloring without it gray. But I think others have said they are all gray, though the gray with penciling is not to standard requirements (an even chinchilla gray). That is just how I keep them straight in my little pea brain. [/COLOR]I think people will post pictures off the internet and say they got it off the internet.
the gray vs. silver makes since to me. Thanks. Not familiar with chinchilla coloring, looks like I'll add that to my list of colors to find, with champane. And go back and do some back reading on this thread. I agree with you about sonoran, I'll try my best to give my option when folks are out looking for it. but. It's soooo much nicer to hear from someone that has the knowledge and experience to back it up. And It dosent hurt that she has such a clear and concise manor of shareing her knowledge. Just to help make a decision on coloring, there are 4 different birds in the photos I posted earlyer the newly hatched the not full grown chick and the hen. They have been hatching out fairly consectanty so i thought it would be agood way to show progression of the color. The hen is a bit dirty and dusty ( she didnt want a bath before going broody) but the color dosent look like the pictures of the grays I've see on line. Earlyer this summer I got the chick in the last photo. And even as a chick it don't look the same. ( when the last bird in the photo was a baby it looked a lot like Carolina hens chick). What i think grays are ment to look like. Not the white with black stripes I've been getting. As far as I know there hasn't been any cuckoo in any of the parents breeding, or chocolate or dun. But it's about Iimposible to track lineage back to far. The one obvious connection is they are all offspring from my columbian rooster. Starting to think its the Colombian gene restricting some of the middle gray tones and leaving the palest grays and darkest blacks or grays???? But that's just my unproven theorie right now. Thanks agin
