The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[jeremy]

I think Mauve is gorgeous. I definitely plan to work on a LF Mauve Orp as well as the Chocs.

The color doesn't look a lot like Platinum to me, it seems "warmer" than Platinum, if that makes any sense. I see Platinum as a cold, steely gray color.

I want to figure out another name for the color Mauve for the birds produced here in the US, I don't really feel like calling them mauve is an accurate representation of what the birds look like.

 

[nicalandia]

I think Mauve is gorgeous. I definitely plan to work on a LF Mauve Orp as well as the Chocs.

The color doesn't look a lot like Platinum to me, it seems "warmer" than Platinum, if that makes any sense. I see Platinum as a cold, steely gray color.

I want to figure out another name for the color Mauve for the birds produced here in the US, I don't really feel like calling them mauve is an accurate representation of what the birds look like.

have you seen Hen´s Platinum blues?

 

[nicalandia]

The hen at the bottom of this page is mauve.
http://www.orpingtonbantams.co.uk/choc.htm

Thanks... I just saw the hen in the pic, and I believe what we are seeing is a Chocolate laced Platinum Blue phenotype(as its not realy platinum but looks like it on the feathers where choc and blue are mixed)

 

[rockinpaints]

You got a quick start.. glad you got some out, I wish it were easier to tell the black from the chocolate younger but at least for me theyre both really dark

Here is a couple pics of our babies beside a split chic.

Side by side it is easier to tell the colors.

 

[rockinpaints]

OK, I am in the picture mode

While I was snapping pics of the babies I thought this one was cute of the Jubilees. Kinda looks like a 'mirror image'.

 

[nicalandia]

I think Mauve is gorgeous. I definitely plan to work on a LF Mauve Orp as well as the Chocs.

The color doesn't look a lot like Platinum to me, it seems "warmer" than Platinum, if that makes any sense. I see Platinum as a cold, steely gray color.

I want to figure out another name for the color Mauve for the birds produced here in the US, I don't really feel like calling them mauve is an accurate representation of what the birds look like.

Hey Jeremy that Mauve Hen looks alot like your "Platinumb Blue" sumatra boy.. do you have updated pics of him? I was right all along... your boy and that Mauve hen have outer lacing in their background, remember that Blue has a Hard time Diluting this faint laced birds(not as dark laced as true andalusian blues) so that fait lacing is left untouched by Blue so here comes choc(in the case of Mauve) and Dun(in the case of your boy) and dilutes it to a chocolate color... and we have Chocolate Lace Mauve/Platinum blue, which look very similar to me...

 

[jeremy]

have you seen Hen´s Platinum blues?

Yes, why?

My own Platinum Sumatra male is very steel gray colored, too. He looks very different from Mauve.

 

[nicalandia]

Yes, why?

My own Platinum Sumatra male is very steel gray colored, too. He looks very different from Mauve.

well I guess I am seeing him with my genetic eyes...

he looks very similar to that mauve(very light colored background and chocolate colored pyle areas including the faint lacing on him) can I see more pics of him, Please.. I need it for a new post I´ll be doing in the genetic gorus place..

 

[jeremy]

Hey Jeremy that Mauve Hen looks alot like your "Platinumb Blue" sumatra boy.. do you have updated pics of him? I was right all along... your boy and that Mauve hen have outer lacing in their background, remember that Blue has a Hard time Diluting this faint laced birds(not as dark laced as true andalusian blues) so that fait lacing is left untouched by Blue so here comes choc(in the case of Mauve) and Dun(in the case of your boy) and dilutes it to a chocolate color... and we have Chocolate Lace Mauve/Platinum blue, which look very similar to me...

Mauve hen.

My Platinum Sumatra, this is the most recent picture I have of him.



What do you mean by "outer lacing in their background"?

The two colors look different to me.

 

[nicalandia]

are these you Mauve Hens?

Chocolate (choc/choc) X Blue (Bl/bl) = (What the Brits call) Mauve, or Mauve laced. As far as I know this color has not been created in the States yet... I'm working on changing that though.