The Legbar Thread!

[enola]

My feeling about the AOC chart is, if you can look at the chart and pick the color's number that represents your egg color, then I can look at my chart and see the color of your eggs.

 

[TheTropix]

My feeling about the AOC chart is, if you can look at the chart and pick the color's number that represents your egg color, then I can look at my chart and see the color of your eggs.

Bingo!

 

[enola]

Hi Tropics. .....

 

[ChicKat]

My feeling about the AOC chart is, if you can look at the chart and pick the color's number that represents your egg color, then I can look at my chart and see the color of your eggs.

Yes, that is the whole idea....it is easy to handle, readily affordable, and people in two distant locations can be talking about the same color....

For sure I can say OAC179 for CL eggs.. I would like to have OAC214--that's not that far away. Thus everyone who has an OAC can look at the chart and know what color we are all talking about -- for far less than the price of Pantone....

Also the OAC tells you that often there isn't a spot on match -- so it will be something to the effect - "a bit lighter than OAC179" or "between OAC179 and OAC151" In the Cream Legbar Club's Clubhouse there is a posting that compares the OAC colors to the Araucana/Ameraucana charts too - should a person only have one or the other..... Rinda compiled it when we first started referencing OACs -- OAC seems easier to use/match.... Maybe because the swatches are larger and more discrete, the Araucana charts - always seemed really difficult to match with all my colored eggs...

We could all require analysis by
spectrophotometer

as in this scientific article
http://webs.uvigo.es/avelando/pdfs_archivos/moralesetal2011BESa.pdf


"Avian eggshell color is remarkably variable among and
within species and its possible function has long been
debated. "

If the APA used Pantone -- There would still be a range of colors required...It isn't really just a one color for any species that I know of, and I believe that the colors change throughout the birds life - both in egg shell and plumage. (As reinforced by the scientific article above- diet/nutrition can cause color difference from one egg to the next.) So if your hen lays color xyz on Pantone, spectrophotometer, or paper chart in April - and you sell her to someone who feeds a high carotenoid diet - or marigold petals or vitamins, she could lay a slightly different color in August......

 

[enola]

Makes perfect sense to me

 

[TheTropix]

Hey there enola!!
@ ChicKat... x 2

 

[ChicKat]

Rinda so sorry you lost some.

hope that you don't loose any more.

 

[normanack]

My feeling about the AOC chart is, if you can look at the chart and pick the color's number that represents your egg color, then I can look at my chart and see the color of your eggs.

The sticking point is whether your OAC and mine are calibrated precisely. I'm assuming Pantone and other professional systems are picky about calibration. I'm not saying the OAC isn't; I have no idea. But unless I can buy a certain range of blues and greens for a (much) reduced price from Pantone, I'm going to use the OAC. The Ameraucana chart's swatches are too small for me to use with any sense of certainty.

 

[TheTropix]

"They cost hundreds of dollars if I recall from my printing days. Yeap... they do"

"Pantone recommends you buy a book every year as light and use can fade the colors in the books."

ROFL I bet at that price they do recommend you buy a new one each year! Good Grief!!!!

 

[enola]

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