What color is this?

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I’m not sure why. It’s what I’ve read about them. The original source of the heavy mottling was a hen of unknown origin bred with speckled sussex and exchequer leghorn. It doesn’t talk about it here, but you can see from the pictures that the chicks have more mottling than the adults https://www.backyardchickens.com/reviews/aloha-chickens.11541/gallery.

This link shows a specific cockerel that lost mottling as he grew http://alohachickens.blogspot.com/2015/04/white-spots-on-roosters-going-going-gone.html?m=1.