The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[h2oratt]

Ok what color is this rooster. Breed is orpington

 

[h2oratt]

Then I need to know color in this one.

 

[speckledhen]

Ok what color is this rooster. Breed is orpington

They're both blues. The first one appears to have some yellow in the skin from the tone of his legs. That happens occasionally in Blue Orps from the Sandhill Preservation because I found that at one time, they were rumored to use Blue Rocks in their Orp line. They should, of course, have white skin and slate legs. He's also sun faded like happens if they are exposed to sun most of their lives. Suede used to turn brassy that way as the season wore on and right before his molts.

 

[h2oratt]

Thank you , the first roo isn’t a splash?

 

[speckledhen]

Thank you , the first roo isn’t a splash?

Oh, no, splash would appear a pearly white color with "accent" feathers. This was one of Suede's sons, Thor. He was a splash.

 

[h2oratt]

Pretty, ok since the ones chest looks like your roo, I thought maybe.

I was shocked when I saw a wheaten roo. They are red

 

[speckledhen]

Suede as a younger guy:

Later, as he sun faded and became brassy. He did this more as he aged. I wasn't going to keep him inside to keep him blue.You can tell this is close to the molt because of how ratty his feathers are in the photo.

 

[speckledhen]

I don't know about wheaten being red, per se. I had a blue wheaten Ameraucana cockerel. He looked a lot like my blue partridge Brahma rooster in coloring. Here he is. The only difference in him and a straight wheaten would be where Levi was blue, a wheaten would be black:

 

[h2oratt]

Suede as a younger guy: View attachment 1611227

Later, as he sun faded and became brassy. He did this more as he aged. I wasn't going to keep him inside to keep him blue.You can tell this is close to the molt because of how ratty his feathers are in the photo.

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He is beautiful mine are just pet quality’s

 

[speckledhen]

He is beautiful mine are just pet quality’s

Suede had some flaws, to be sure. His eye color was too light. And he had some hidden genes that expressed themselves out of the blue occasionally as well, no pun intended-like a barring gene (I finally saw that in his sickle feathers, the light-dark-light-dark blue striped appearance) as well as that yellow skin gene because he had some Sandhill blood in him, even though his legs were properly colored. But most people thought he was handsome. He was a joy to have around, super sweet and easygoing, so he was just perfect as far as I was concerned, perfect for me. He was far from show quality, but when I hatched him here, there were not a lot of blue Orps on BYC and everyone wanted some.