What color is this??

[wyandotte boy]

definitely a birchen

 

[Chris09]

Yep, thats what he looks like, only without the white on the head. His neck is mostly black too with just streaks of silver/transparent feathers.

Is he silver (white) or does he have gold (yellow) in him also?
Like this rooster https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/336124/birchen-cochin or close to it.

If he has the gold in him then I would say he either has Partridge or Brown Red bred back in him also.

Chris

 

[ChickenExtreme]

Not my bird Picture form http://bantams.the-kozaks.com/ModernGames/ModernGames-3.html

Pictures below are from http://www.kippenencyclopedie.nl/php/index.php?title=Hoofdpagina
Hackle Feather --

Saddle Feather --

Below infomation from http://ps.fass.org/content/33/3/472.abstract

Genetics of Birchen Plumage Pattern in the Fowl

1. Elliot Kimball​

BIRCHEN phenotype consists in fractionated pyle-zoned restriction, associated with black ground color and laced breast feathers in both sexes (American Standard of Perfection, 1953). It is found in the Birchen Game and Game Bantam as silver-on-black, and the same pattern appears in the Gray Japanese Bantam. Identity of patterning obtains in the Brown-red or Brown-breasted Game, except that silver is replaced by gold. Experimental evidence submitted below demonstrates Brown-red to be a gold variety of Birchen, and since multiplicity of breed names applied to the same basic pattern is cumbersome and confusing, the present report designates the variants as Silver Birchen (Birchen) and Golden Birchen (Brown-red), respectively.
Bateson and Punnett (1906) found Golden Birchen dominant to Black-breasted Red on a monofactorial autosomal basis. Illustrations of wild type striped Black-breasted Red, and non-striped black Golden Birchen chicks were published by Bateson (1910). Hagedoorn (1909) reported Black-breasted Red dominant to Golden Birchen, . . .


Chris

Thats Silver Birchen

 

[ChickenExtreme]

Yep, thats what he looks like, only without the white on the head. His neck is mostly black too with just streaks of silver/transparent feathers.

He's Birchen color, not Silver Birchen like Chris09 is saying, lol

 

[Chris09]

Thats Silver Birchen

I will assume that you either just started in poultry or don't know poultry colors/ and or genetics.
Either was so that you know,
(poultry 101)
Birchen and Silver Birchen are the same thing.
Birchen is Brown Red with the Gold replaced with Silver.

Chris

 

[Chris09]

He's Birchen color, not Silver Birchen like Chris09 is saying, lol

Now this is funny.

Birchen and Silver Birchen are the same thing..

Chris

 

[hdowden]

Not my bird Picture form http://bantams.the-kozaks.com/ModernGames/ModernGames-3.html

now this is a handsome modern (and i think they look funny due to the long legs but i would take him in a heart beat)

 

[hdowden]

as for the golden color you are talking about, is it just on part of the feather and on top? is it the whole area? did the feathers come in like that? is he out in the sun a lot? do you feed them corn any (like 2-3 times a week)?

depending on your answer's he may just be sun bleached or the corn turned the white feathers yellowish as in that pic that cock looks to be sun bleached instead

i do agree that he is a birchen cochin

 

[ChickenExtreme]

I will assume that you either just started in poultry or don't know poultry colors/ and or genetics.
Either was so that you know,
(poultry 101)
Birchen and Silver Birchen are the same thing.
Birchen is Brown Red with the Gold replaced with Silver.

Chris

Exactly GOLDEN COLOR , DUH

 

[ChickenExtreme]

His is a Silver Birchen (Birchen). He may have some Partridge in him also that could be the reason for the Gold coloring in him.

Chris

Why do you even contradict yourself?