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

[Wishapup]

The rooster and my 1 amer hen both have slate colored legs. Perhaps he is an EE with those funky colored green legs.

I love the color variety that can come from raising blues. It's also really pretty with the dark lacing

I am down to 1 blue Amer rooster out of 5 and 1 blue Amer hen. They're 1 year old now so I want to make more of them while they're in their prime lol. I also have several pet EEs with some blue coloration and I'm shopping around for blue/splash silkie eggs or bbs at the moment

OH and I picked these up last week. They're bantam cochins from Ideal. Any idea on color? There weren't many cochins to choose from, but I'm sure you know what colors I was trying to pick out

LOL




They're so sweet I love em. Hope I have 2 pullets or a pair!

Nice Cochins

Looks like 2 splash, 1 blue, and 1 black, perhaps.

 

[draye]

Here's my cochin, would he just be considered red? When I google images for red cochin it doesn't pull up any colored like him.

I think that he would be considered red.

 

[Wishapup]

I think that he would be considered red.

I agree...he's almost like a New Hampshire red colour.

 

[Celtlore]

Some weeks ago I posted the first picture of this cochin bantam chick at 5 days old and it was suggested she was either buff (which I thought) or possibly red. Now this is what she looks like. The photo is not the best and her head is still a pretty pale yellow. She doesn't quite look like a partridge. I don't know the stages a red goes through. She doesn't look like my two partridge chicks exactly. Any suggestions. She is probably 5-6 weeks old now.

 

[Celtlore]

I posted this picture at the same time as Honey above. This is Zorro/Zena, and everyone agreed it was a barred rock cochin bantam. Below he is 5-6 weeks old and I was just wondering about the darker bands of reddish tint on his wings. Will this go away, or is it leakage??

 

[gypsyroseplus6]

the easter eggers are the ones i am interested in. Also what is the color patern called for a isa brown?

 

[junebuggena]

the easter eggers are the ones i am interested in. Also what is the color patern called for a isa brown?

Isa browns and Easter Eggers aren't standard colors. They are mixed breeds. Isa Browns are a type of red sexlink. It's a cross between a red/gold base color rooster, with a silver base color hen. Males get their mother's dominant silver gene and feather in white with some red 'leakage.' Females feather in mostly red with some white.
Your Easter Egger rooster looks like he's a silver based, wild partridge type with red leakage. Your Easter Egger pullets are a wild type partridge color. One has a blue dilute gene that turns all the black in her pattern, grey.

 

[gypsyroseplus6]

ok because i was doing the color calculator for chicks

 

[gypsyroseplus6]

Isa browns and Easter Eggers aren't standard colors. They are mixed breeds. Isa Browns are a type of red sexlink. It's a cross between a red/gold base color rooster, with a silver base color hen. Males get their mother's dominant silver gene and feather in white with some red 'leakage.' Females feather in mostly red with some white.
Your Easter Egger rooster looks like he's a silver based, wild partridge type with red leakage. Your Easter Egger pullets are a wild type partridge color. One has a blue dilute gene that turns all the black in her pattern, grey.

http://www.breedbook.org/?action=geneticscalculator i was using this to see if I could get a good idea about chick color

 

[junebuggena]

Your rooster's silver type color (black and white) is dominant. And the pullet with the blue gene will likely pass that to about half her chicks. Using your rooster, most of the offspring, regardless of hen, will be white with black patterning. The males will inherit the red/gold leakage (it's very difficult to breed out). But because they are Easter Eggers, and not purebreds, there really is no way of knowing what colors/patterns are lurking in their genetic background.