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

[Mandymooligan]

Thank you so much!

Looks similar to a red red pyle.

Tim

 

[draye]

Can anyone tell me what color this chicken is? This is the only photo I could find.

That is the picture that Dunlap Hatchery uses for their Araucana/Americanas---Easter Eggers really.

 

[Meara]

Quote: Seriously? It doesn't have muffs, beard, or a pea comb! I don't see how they could even pass it off as an EE.

 

[Coopacabana]

Seriously? It doesn't have muffs, beard, or a pea comb! I don't see how they could even pass it off as an EE.

At least it sort of has green legs...

What is the genetic difference between barred & cuckoo? Is there one?

 

[Meara]

What is the genetic difference between barred & cuckoo? Is there one?

Cuckoo has a sex-linked pattern of inheritance on the Z chromosome. The symbol for the gene is "B". B is dominant over non-cuckoo which is symbolized by "b+". Cuckoo is expressed phenotypically as a white baring pattern against a background that is some shade of red or black.

Autosomal (nonsex-linked) barring is caused by a combination of genes that interact to create a pattern. Hopefully someone else will jump in who can explain it in more detail!

 

[Coopacabana]

Ok, so which one are barred rocks? Are they different from, say, cuckoo marans, in that way?

 

[hdowden]

what color would you call him?

oatmeal, his hen mint, and my milli oegb...what color is his girl as well??

 

[hdowden]

Ok, so which one are barred rocks? Are they different from, say, cuckoo marans, in that way?

on barred rocks the barring is even and in line while on cuckoo (and dominques) the pattern is staggered and blochy (or at lest to me it is)

barred rock

cuckoo marans

 

[Coopacabana]

Yeah, I noticed that too. So what's the genetic difference? One's the sex linked (i'm guessing the marans) and the other's not?

on barred rocks the barring is even and in line while on cuckoo (and dominques) the pattern is staggered and blochy (or at lest to me it is)

barred rock

cuckoo marans

 

[Coopacabana]

I'd say some sort of columbian.

what color would you call him?

oatmeal, his hen mint, and my milli oegb...what color is his girl as well??