What are people's chicken color preferences?

[MysteryChicken]

How about the color topaz? It's a lighter shade of Buff with black down, & partridge based.

Here's a Buff Orpington for comparison.

The lighting wasn't too great for topaz's photo.

 

[Ab1010]

I love little black and white chicks and grey ones so I've ended up with mostly that color in my flock lol but I really love mille fleur. I have a couple cochins in that color and theyer so pretty. Idk what you call a flower hen but I love their coloring too!

 

[black_cat]

Oh 100% agree.
The boys get nice dark shiny feathers.
Huge difference actually.
I much prefer the cockerels.
Hatchery Orps are something else.

Oh god I just started four sentences in a row with 'I think' all of my english classes are down the drain.

 

[black_cat]

How about the color topaz? It's a lighter shade of Buff with black down, & partridge based.View attachment 2344913View attachment 2344914View attachment 2344915Here's a Buff Orpington for comparison.View attachment 2344917The lighting wasn't too great for topaz's photo.

That color is super cool. I like how it's more on the brown side of orange, and the black accents make it look really nice.

 

[The Happster]

Oh god I just started four sentences in a row with 'I think' all of my english classes are down the drain.

Ah, better than me.
I start 85% of my sentences with "Orpingtons"

 

[black_cat]

I love little black and white chicks and grey ones so I've ended up with mostly that color in my flock lol but I really love mille fleur. I have a couple cochins in that color and theyer so pretty. Idk what you call a flower hen but I love their coloring too!

Mille fleur is beautiful as well! I haven't raised chicks but I wouldn't know about chick colors, but I think that chipmunk chicks are adorable.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'd agree on solid white birds. I probably wouldn't want a white silkie especially, for that reason. My white leghorn is also the best dustbather, and she always looks a bit dirty.

My white silkies stay cleaner then solid feathered birds surprisingly.

 

[black_cat]

My white silkies stay cleaner then solid feathered birds surprisingly.

Oh, really? I guess that makes sense, it's probably harder for the dirt to stick.

 

[MysteryChicken]

That color is super cool. I like how it's more on the brown side of orange, and the black accents make it look really nice.

Dino is the dad of Topaz.

 

[NatJ]

I really like the rich golden-brown shades (buff and red and the shades in between).

But the biggest thing for me is that I like patterns on chickens. Especially tidily organized, intricate patterns, with exactly two colors.
So columbian, laced, double-laced, spangled (Hamburg-style spangled), etc.
I think gold with black patterns is my very favorite, but I also like silver with black patterns, dark red-brown with black patterns, and gold with white patterns.

Mottling tends to look messy to me, so I don't like it as well. (I mean anything with the mottling gene, whether the variety is called Mille Fleur or Jubilee or Speckled or Tolbunt or...)

And for some reason I do not really like the gray shades (blue, splash, lavender.)