What color are we?

Whitney13

Songster
9 Years
May 14, 2010
120
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Malvern, AR
These are my americauna or Easter Eggers, Kip lays a beautiful sky blue egg and Darkie lays a kind of a minty sky blueish colored egg. Anyways, I have had them for a while and I have always wondered what color they are. So can anyone tell me?
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This is Darkie, it isn't a very good shot of her but the rest of her is just black.
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This is Kip.
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I will try to get some better pictures up.
 
Well, the thing with EEs is that they are cross bred birds for their beautiful egg color, color varieties are out the window. So they are very seldom a single color, but instead a mix of colors and you get a wide array of phenotypes that can mask the true genotypes. IMO, Darkie is almost a partridge color, but not a pure partridge. Kip is a quail color, but not pure quail because the breast color is incorrect (breast should be clear, not patterned). If I had to label them a color, that's what I would say. But I'm sure someone else will see something there that I missed.
 
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