What color is my hen

[Humboldthen]

I can’t find the thread, so although redundant here it goes.
I think this EE hen is red ground based barred and dun. She has tan patterning on darker tan feathers. Her tail is fairly blue looking though. Some of her chicks look like they are the same coloring (only six weeks old at this point) so that’s why lavender seems unlikely. The roos have all been BYM, however, so who knows.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

I had an EE named Lupin that was very similar to that. The EEs have lots of colors and color patterns making no bird the same. An EE of the same flock as Lupin was a Blue Wheaten, so I called Lupine a Blue Wheaten, too. The Blue Wheaten was very similar in color, and markings, but I don't think that they are the same. I'd love to know if there is an actual name for that color mixture, so I think that I'll follow this thread.

 

[Humboldthen]

The best I could do was that she is heterozygous for dun but that doesn’t explain her tail being grey, I think, maybe it does. Maybe her patterning is brown, not black, if that is possible.

She looks like she has two different dilution genes in action and that would be so unusual that I think there is a simple answer that has eluded me.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I can’t find the thread, so although redundant here it goes.
I think this EE hen is red ground based barred and dun. She has tan patterning on darker tan feathers. Her tail is fairly blue looking though. Some of her chicks look like they are the same coloring (only six weeks old at this point) so that’s why lavender seems unlikely. The roos have all been BYM, however, so who knows.

She is neither dun or barred. She has the gold gene and the blue dilution gene. Her pattern looks like a mixed partridge.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Thank you, that’s helpful

Here’s a blue partridge Brahma to compare (not my picture):

Your hen’s pattern is less “clean” because it’s more mixed.

 

[Humboldthen]

Here are a couple of her chicks, now ten weeks old.

 

[WhoDatChick]

She looks like she has two different dilution genes in action and that would be so unusual that I think there is a simple answer that has eluded me.

I was thinking the same.. she looks like these two of mine combined! Her front half looks like Kelly and her back half looks like Daffy

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Here are a couple of her chicks, now ten weeks old.

Looks like a couple of them got the blue gene.

 

[Humboldthen]

I had an EE named Lupin that was very similar to that. The EEs have lots of colors and color patterns making no bird the same. An EE of the same flock as Lupin was a Blue Wheaten, so I called Lupine a Blue Wheaten, too. The Blue Wheaten was very similar in color, and markings, but I don't think that they are the same. I'd love to know if there is an actual name for that color mixture, so I think that I'll follow this thread.

Lol. The EEs are my starter/learning flock. Getting color names correct seems to be an achievable goal (right?); thanks for responding because wheaten didn’t occur to me. Patterns are easier: such as sooty moss partial Colombian and jagged line penciling.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Lol. The EEs are my starter/learning flock. Getting color names correct seems to be an achievable goal (right?); thanks for responding because wheaten didn’t occur to me. Patterns are easier: such as sooty moss partial Colombian and jagged line penciling.

EEs, in my personal opinion, is some of the best backyard chickens out there! It's so cool that you can have them as your starter/learning flock. I had some EEs in my first flock too! I think that they are achievable... There's so many color patterns that it's hard. You sure know a lot, though! Sooty Moss, I've never heard of that before. It sounds like it's a color variant of a pigeon or something. Colombian and Pencilling, I'm familiar with, but not really Jagged Line. I've learned a lot of my color names from my book Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds. It's been awhile since I've read that, so maybe I'm a little rusty on the colors? As far as Wheaten, I learned that color before I got that book. I was given a handsome de-crowed Blue Wheaten Ameruacana, and that's how I learned that color.