What color is this cochin?

[BlackBrookPoultry]

Thank you...she's not mine but out of my birds...I am just trying to figure out HOW...and IF I can re-create it...and what I would be working towards...LOL

I think I need to buy hatching eggs from you this spring!​

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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The hackles are too dark for it to be lavender, but there is definitely a lot of gold dilution going on in the body.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Since Buff Columbians are not actually "buff," but just golden columbians, no, blue does not dilute them. However, it does dilute true Buff. Lavender does indeed dilute gold to an "Isabel" color, but remember that it is recessive.

On a discussion at The-Coop, threre were a fair number of comments that blue can provide a variable amount of of dilution to gold. Does not always, and certainly not to the extent of lavender or other gold diluting genes. However, what I find odd on hte bird in question is that the hackles are barely diluted, whereas the body is very diluted. It almost looks photoshopped. The 2nd bird posted also has darker hackles, although they appear to mostly blue, whereas the bird shown in the first post has both blue and gold in the hackles.

 

[cochinman2005]

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Hey Tom...they are kind of a slate-grey color...

Okay, an update. Here's my best guess based upon the breeds you list as raising.
Is it possible that she is a cross between a Coronation Sussex male and a Golden Laced Cochin female? The white legs with the sussex combined with the yellow legs of the Cochin could explain the slate/grey leg color, and the coronation markings would explain the more Lavender look to the hackle and tail feathers. Overall her body color is Wheaten (except the hackles), which is why I initially said she looked Blue Wheaten.

I think a Coronation Sussex X Golden Laced cross could perhaps result in a bird that looked like this, however, the flaw in my theory here is that you wouldn't/shouldn't see the Lav color in the first generation from such a cross, but in the f2 birds. Imagine that bird without the wheaten body color and the gold lacing in the hackle and essentially you have a Coronation colored Cochin, albeit sparsley feathered in the leg/feet area.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Hey Tom...they are kind of a slate-grey color...

Okay, an update. Here's my best guess based upon the breeds you list as raising.
Is it possible that she is a cross between a Coronation Sussex male and a Golden Laced Cochin female? The white legs with the sussex combined with the yellow legs of the Cochin could explain the slate/grey leg color, and the coronation markings would explain the more Lavender look to the hackle and tail feathers. Overall her body color is Wheaten (except the hackles), which is why I initially said she looked Blue Wheaten.

I think a Coronation Sussex X Golden Laced cross could perhaps result in a bird that looked like this, however, the flaw in my theory here is that you wouldn't/shouldn't see the Lav color in the first generation from such a cross, but in the f2 birds. Imagine that bird without the wheaten body color and the gold lacing in the hackle and essentially you have a Coronation colored Cochin, albeit sparsley feathered in the leg/feet area.

No, she's purebred and out of a pen of hold back, "lemon blue" parents...I have all of my breeds housed separately so no crossbreeding at all....

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Yes!! Very similar!! And from the same pen, I think....

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

if only you were closer to the east coast, i would snatch up some of those eggs if you ever sold some!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Chickie'sMoma :

if only you were closer to the east coast, i would snatch up some of those eggs if you ever sold some!

I do all the time.

And I ship. I just don't have anything now since it's too cold and they're not breeding right now...I also don't know what I'd market them as or how it really happened....I had another project in mind for that pen and now I'm getting these weird crop-ups sometimes but not consistently.​

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

not a problem right now! i don't use an incubator so i have to wait for my girls to go broody first!

though my girls have been known to start going broody in January and February, and i think one of my buff cochins may be thinking of it real soon!

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

Is she a standard? I really, seriously would buy some eggs in the spring out of that pen (if you keep breeding them). I just love cochins and it would be wonderul if I got lucky enough for one of them to end up looking like that.