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

[CatoftheStorm]

Well I contacted the lady we got him from and she said the Cochin was the father. She's bred the Cochin before and apparently he's only produced one chick with feathered legs. I'm guessing she made more hybrids and wasn't breeding him with another Cochin. Feathering must not be dominant with him or he wasn't a pure bred Cochin to begin with. Not that I care, but that is odd if feathering is supposed to be dominant.
I'm not really concerned about knowing my rooster's coloration either, just curious.

 

[vnork]

What color do you think? Dad is Lavender EE and EE mom is pictured below.

 

[junebuggena]

What color do you think? Dad is Lavender EE and EE mom is pictured below.

Picture of the dad? The mom looks like she might have a double dose of the Blue dilute gene, with that light grey through her muffs and on her head. That means she should produce Blue chicks, like the one pictured. Lavender is a recessive gene that requires two copies, one from each parent, to express. Lavender birds breed like they are solid black, when bred with a different color.

 

[Spoof]

Hello all, I got this hen in a batch of hatchery EE's. She is the only one that looks to have a lavender? base. Was curious as to what the lacing around the neck is called. She is in with my Brahma rooster to keep him company, also curious about his color, he is from a lady that had Blue Partridge Brahmans and was mixing Blue with Gold laced Brahmas. I know the cochin in the back is a blue/buff splash.

I'm incubating some eggs for some fluffy yard eye candy, can't wait to see what the rainbow of chicks will look like. Thanks in advance.

 

[BaileyMChicks]

Could she be a blue wheaten? And no clue about the boy, but he is very pretty. I bet the chicks are going to be so cute.

 

[junebuggena]

Hello all, I got this hen in a batch of hatchery EE's. She is the only one that looks to have a lavender? base. Was curious as to what the lacing around the neck is called. She is in with my Brahma rooster to keep him company, also curious about his color, he is from a lady that had Blue Partridge Brahmans and was mixing Blue with Gold laced Brahmas. I know the cochin in the back is a blue/buff splash.

I'm incubating some eggs for some fluffy yard eye candy, can't wait to see what the rainbow of chicks will look like. Thanks in advance.

She a wild-type partridge with a Blue gene.

 

[BaileyMChicks]

I just got 3 silkie chicks last night. Well, they aren't exactly chicks anymore, I think she said around 4 months, maybe 5? I'd have to ask again. I got them cheap from a breeder. One porcelain that has a single comb and is missing a toe on the right foot. It's a nice porcelain, but she couldn't keep him cuz of his comb. The other 2 are just funky colored ones she didn't have a use for. She had been breeding for paints, porcelains, and hoping for a few nice blacks for her cuckoo 'project' and these guys popped up. They look sorta like a cross between a porcelain and a paint to me, but I don't really know anything about those colors. She ended up with a lot of whites and paints when she hatched out. And I think there was only a few other porcelains in the group. There were a few blacks as well. I am just intrigued as to what color I should call them, or what mix of colors they are. Ok, enough rambling. Here's the pictures.

Jace

And Jordan

All of them, including Jackson, the porcelain.

 

[BaileyMChicks]

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[TattooedChicks]

Sharing two of my more unusual bantams.

EE- unsure of how to classify color


Cochin- silver penciled with autosomal barring? Female and male versions

 

[junebuggena]

Sharing two of my more unusual bantams.

EE- unsure of how to classify color
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Cochin- silver penciled with autosomal barring? Female and male versions
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The Easter Egger looks like a blue variation of the Salmon/wheaten coloring seen in Faverolles.
The Cochins are penciled. What you are seeing as autosomal barring is just juvenile patterning. It will likely change into more defined penciling as they are mature.