What color is this??

[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

Here we go again, lol, I don't see any Partridge in her at all, and birchen does have some gold coloring in them

 

[dukeis111]

Do you have a link to a "dogfish" chicken?
Where are there place of origin?

Chris

 

[dukeis111]

dogfish chicken!

 

[Chris09]

Here we go again, lol, I don't see any Partridge in her at all, and birchen does have some gold coloring in them

You dont see the Gold in the Hackles, Saddle Feathers and the Wing Bow?
There should be NO Gold in a Birchen at all.
Also shouldn't have lacing in there chest either but that is besides the point.

If you like I could pull out the APA standard and re-look up the description they have for Birchin.

Chris

 

[ChickenExtreme]

There should be NO Gold in a Birchen at all.
Also shouldn't have lacing in there chest either but that is besides the point.

If you like I could pull out the APA standard and re-look up the description they have for Birchin.

Chris

I'm not talking apa, I'm not a showman, and yes birchen does have a gold coloring to the cockerel, Pull it up

 

[Reurra]

The feathers I have been looking at on his shoulders are tinged yellowish gold, though they might come out white, Im not sure. They are still half pin feathers, they look like hundreds of little paint brushes right now, but i can tell the centers are black and the edges are much lighter in the white to gold range.

 

[dukeis111]

no one likes the dogfish?

 

[Chris09]

I'm not talking apa, I'm not a showman, and yes birchen does have a gold coloring to the cockerel, Pull it up

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

 

[Reurra]

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.

 

[Red Barn Farms]

x2 on birchen color