Unexpected Blue chicks from a porcelain rooster

[janiedoe]

Here Is a better/more accurate color photo of one of the chicks. The head looks brown in the photo, but it is dark gray.

 

[Chicken Heel]

Here is the rooster
(Different rooster sired the chicks on the roost)
He is a hatchery rooster (Ideal poultry) & so are the hens
View attachment 3501445

Adorable photo, especially with the chicks sitting there beside their mama. Nothing cuter than a hen with diddles (Western NC mountain term for baby chicks).

 

[janiedoe]

Adorable photo, especially with the chicks sitting there beside their mama. Nothing cuter than a hen with diddles (Western NC mountain term for baby chicks).

Thank you.
I love it! I have a rooster that I call diddle dude. Lol. I don't think he is impressed with my baby talk.

 

[Amer]

Here is the rooster
(Different rooster sired the chicks on the roost)
He is a hatchery rooster (Ideal poultry) & so are the hens
View attachment 3501445

That hen on the left is lovely!

Here is another shot of him. View attachment 3501452

He is khaki silver duckwing and the chicks are dun, which is why they are brownish.

 

[Amer]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...khaki-platinum-bird-pics.456039/post-10203054

 

[janiedoe]

That hen on the left is lovely!

He is khaki silver duckwing and the chicks are dun, which is why they are brownish.

That isn't a color listed on ideal's website. Would that be similar to fawn silver duckwing?

 

[janiedoe]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...khaki-platinum-bird-pics.456039/post-10203054

Oh my goodness. Those birds are gorgeous!

 

[Amer]

That isn't a color listed on ideal's website. Would that be similar to fawn silver duckwing?

Dun (or as they call it, fawn) works like blue. One copy is dun (fawn) and two copies is khaki. So naturally they would hatch out of the fawn silver duckwing pens.

 

[janiedoe]

Dun (or as they call it, fawn) works like blue. One copy is dun (fawn) and two copies is khaki. So naturally they would hatch out of the fawn silver duckwing pens.

Thank you for your help.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Dun (or as they call it, fawn) works like blue. One copy is dun (fawn) and two copies is khaki. So naturally they would hatch out of the fawn silver duckwing pens.

So Fawn and dun are basically two names for the same gene? Like lavender and self blue?