What color is this hen?

[cmobley]

Tired of guessing at what it's color could be. Maybe it doesn't have a color I dunno. I have no idea what it's parents were.

 

[GermanKennhuhn]

@casportpony

 

[R2elk]

@austria89

 

[yesterDAYNE]

Looks like a blue red bronze to me, or at least a lot like my blue red bronze hen

 

[cmobley]

Looks like a blue red bronze to me, or at least a lot like my blue red bronze hen
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That's gotta be it or some cross breed of that the color is identical. Do you get weird colored poults from her? I breed mine to a bourbon red tom and get poults that are completely silver colored all the way to almost fully bronze colored.

 

[yesterDAYNE]

That's gotta be it or some cross breed of that the color is identical. Do you get weird colored poults from her? I breed mine to a bourbon red tom and get poults that are completely silver colored all the way to almost fully bronze colored.

She just turned a year this year so I havent hatched any out of her, but her daddy is a Red Bourbon and her mom is a Lilac. Most of the babies I've gotten out of using a red tom on top of a variety colors of hens are variations of bronze & black (red bronze & rusty black) and medium browns (blue red bronze & rusty slate).

 

[austria89]

Tired of guessing at what it's color could be. Maybe it doesn't have a color I dunno. I have no idea what it's parents were. View attachment 3131309View attachment 3131316

The variety is called Blue Red Bronze.

They are heterozygous for the dominant slate allele (Dd) and the recessive red allele (Rr).