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

[h2oratt]

What color is this.?

 

[h2oratt]

What color is this.?

 

[speckledhen]

Are you asking what color the last blue Orp roosters is? I was a little confused. They're both blue. One has better color than the other, but could be sun fading. Suede would bleach out, get really brassy, at the end of the season and grow in nice, deeper colored feathers for his molt.

Blue can go from almost black to super light blue. And they are very prone to sun fading, the blues.

 

[h2oratt]

Are you asking what color the last blue Orp roosters is? I was a little confused. They're both blue. One has better color than the other, but could be sun fading. Suede would bleach out, get really brassy, at the end of the season and grow in nice, deeper colored feathers for his molt.

Blue can go from almost black to super light blue. And they are very prone to sun fading, the blues.

Ok so which is correct. The dar one.?

 

[h2oratt]

Guess I could read the SOP.

 

[h2oratt]

I also have a fine trio of white polish. Cockerel in my avatar.
I would like to sell them also.

 

[speckledhen]

Ok so which is correct. The dar one.?

Well, the darker one is more appealing, but there is no actual correct shade of blue that I'm aware of. I do think most like the mid-range blues better than the extra dark or super light ones. Suede had a super dark blue brother that I wasn't even sure was blue or black until I realized that a black one would have a green sheen to his feathers that a blue didn't have.

 

[LukeyLux]

Would you ever sell Blue Orpington chicks? @h2oratt

 

[h2oratt]

Would you ever sell Blue Orpington chicks? @h2oratt

I don’t have a hen to go with them, unfortunately.
I do have a lavender hen and a lavender roo

 

[h2oratt]