The "What Color Is My Chicken?" thread! Calling all color experts!

[tadkerson]

The French would call it salmon. The USA would call it similar to golden duck wing . He has a lot of the cream color in his hackles. To be salmon he should be silver wheaten with autosomal red. He is another genotype most likely brown and heterozygous silver/gold with autosomal red.

Tim

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

I have an EE very similar in color:


His mom was a Silver Ameraucana

And this EE is his father

 

[Chicnextdoor84]

. This guy was sold to me as a sexed pullet, imagine that lol I was told "she" was a splash. Now that HE is older and not really a splash compared to my other splashes. I would like to know what color he is. He is now named Booby for his blue footed booby colored ears lol! Thanks y'all

 

[Chicnextdoor84]

. Here are a couple more shots. When he was a chick he had no chestnut or cream coloring at all just a smoky gray and black with some white. Now he is getting cream streamers and more cream on his neck.

 

[3riverschick]

Hi! I have an Easter Egger cockerel I would like to know the color of (if possible).

I would call him a Red Shouldered Silver Duckwing. e+/e+ S/S Ar+/Ar+ ( but with added gene "Hackle Black")
( I used to own one like this only it was a Marans cock)
(All credit for the following info to Van Dort and Hancox "The Genetics of Chicken Colours- The Basics" ,
, Page 208, available from the author at http://www.chickencolours.com/index.html :
Silver Duckwing with autosomal red coloring the shoulder orange and he hackle and saddle of the
rooster a cream ( selection). Then hens have a more intense red in the breast, otherwise they look
just like a Silver Duckwing hen.
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Salmon ( as in Faverolle) can look similar but is built on eWh or eb locus instead of e+.
In addition it has the Mahogany gene ( and sometimes also the heterozygous form of the Di [Dilute] gene)
which RSSD does not.
Best,
Karen
I know what was bugging me. The Columbian like striping in the hackle of this bird, like in Light Sussex ( my breed). But this bird does not carry the Columbian gene as in the Salmon colored Dutch bantam, page 208 GOCC-TB, ( (e+/e_ S/S Ar+/Ar+ Mh/Mh Co/Co ). The Co gene would push the black out to the extremities like in a Light Sussex. Instead this bird is a regular RSSD but it has the Hackle Black gene. The Hackle Black gene is what is causing the black striping in the center of the white hackle. Without this gene the Light Sussex would have a plain white hackle.

 

[K-12 Chickens]

I would call him a Red Shouldered Silver Duckwing. e+/e+ S/S Ar+/Ar+ ( but with added gene "Hackle Black")
( I used to own one like this only it was a Marans cock)
(All credit for the following info to Van Dort and Hancox "The Genetics of Chicken Colours- The Basics" ,
, Page 208, available from the author at http://www.chickencolours.com/index.html :
Silver Duckwing with autosomal red coloring the shoulder orange and he hackle and saddle of the
rooster a cream ( selection). Then hens have a more intense red in the breast, otherwise they look
just like a Silver Duckwing hen.
-------------------
Salmon ( as in Faverolle) can look similar but is built on eWh or eb locus instead of e+.
In addition it has the Mahogany gene ( and sometimes also the heterozygous form of the Di [Dilute] gene)
which RSSD does not.
Best,
Karen
I know what was bugging me. The Columbian like striping in the hackle of this bird, like in Light Sussex ( my breed). But this bird does not carry the Columbian gene as in the Salmon colored Dutch bantam, page 208 GOCC-TB, ( (e+/e_ S/S Ar+/Ar+ Mh/Mh Co/Co ). The Co gene would push the black out to the extremities like in a Light Sussex. Instead this bird is a regular RSSD but it has the Hackle Black gene. The Hackle Black gene is what is causing the black striping in the center of the white hackle. Without this gene the Light Sussex would have a plain white hackle.

Very interesting! Thanks for all the information!

 

[Chilali]

Hi, I was given a small flock of gamefowl and assorted mutt-chickens several months ago, and while I can identify most of the colors, this girl has me stumped. As far as I'm aware, she's a full-blooded gamefowl and if there are any impurities they are at least three generations back. Her mother is solid black and her father was a really nice red gamefowl (deceased or I'd get pictures... foxes).


Any ideas as to what her coloration could be would be very helpful! Every other full sibling of hers came out red, black, or some combination thereof, so I have no clue what to even think about this one.

 

[sekeyslaks]

Hello! I was wondering if someone could please tell me what my EE rooster's coloration is?I've wondered it for a while,because I've had EE's for a long time and he's the only one I've ever seen with the red!I want to breed him because of his gentle nature but I want to be able to catalog his color correctly!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

EEs don't have a standard, so they don't have color varieties. If I had to call him something, I'd say he was a ginger red. His coloring looks a lot like a ginger red Olde English Game bantam.

He's lovely!

 

[UtterOblivion]

Any ideas about this little cockerel? I have no clue as to what this coloring is called.