What color is this chick??

[daze333]

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!

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?

 

[Illia]

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.

 

[daze333]

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!

 

[daze333]

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?

 

[Chris09]

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