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What color is this chick??

Discussion in 'What Breed Or Gender is This?' started by daze333, Nov 29, 2010.

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  1. Nov 29, 2010 #1
    daze333

    daze333 Chillin' With My Peeps

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    I bred a frizzle birchen cochin to a black cochin and got this. What do you call it? It looks like the reverse of a birchen. Her body is yellow with black on her wings and tail. Columbian? Help![​IMG]
    She is 4 wks old and her feathers are just now starting to stick out a bit. I breed frizzles and this shouldn't happen at this age. Any ideas?
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  3. Nov 29, 2010 #2
    Illia

    Illia Crazy for Colors

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    You sure that was the parentage? Black x Birchen will give solid black birds with a tiny leakage/trickle of silver.

    What I'm seeing is possibly Columbian in there, but I'm more betting that there's partridge, duckwing, or something else to the likes as well. . . What other color of Cochins do you have?

    What color was the chick at hatching point? Solid yellow? Did it have any stripes? I would imagine it to have some form of stripes or darkness on the back.
     
  5. Nov 30, 2010 #3
    daze333

    daze333 Chillin' With My Peeps

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    Hi Illia,
    Yes that is the only cochins that my friend has that hatched these babies. She has silkies, but in a different pen. They looked pretty much the same as chicks, just less black, but still visible on the wings. I only got her at about 2 wks old and she has always looked this way with me. I just don't know what color to call her? If you just went by what she looks like what would you call her? (closest color match)
    Thanks!
     
  7. Nov 30, 2010 #4
    daze333

    daze333 Chillin' With My Peeps

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    Yes I did get some black cochins with silver leakage from her too. Also here is a pic of the cockerel with that same coloring. Do you think those couldn't have come from the same parents?

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  9. Nov 30, 2010 #5
    Chris09

    Chris09 Circle (M) Ranch

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    The bird/s in the first two and fourth picture look to have lacing in the feathers. I would say that one of the parents are out of a Silver Laced bird..
    I don't see a Columbian pattern in any of the birds.

    Chris
     

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