What color OEGB is Tyson?

[Cuban Longtails]

Nice name!

 

[fancyfowl4ever]

That would be a Splash Dun Silver Duckwing, he must be from Ideal, because their Duns(chocolates) do throw some Silver duckwings sometimes.

I had a cockerel of the exact colour and then one reg. Dun with silver hackles/saddle.

 

[cyanne]

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I bet that's where he's from, cuz I bought him at the feed store here in Austin, TX and I think Ideal is the nearest big hatchery.

I just love his color and could stare at him all day. Plus his personality is so cool. He's very assertive, but not mean. He loves to be held and cuddled, though I sometimes get the feeling I am embarrassing him in front of his flock when I baby him too much. I can just imagine him sayin', "Mom! Quit with the smoochin', the ladies are gonna see!"

 

[Vcomb]

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sorry, but he's no duckwing. the dark flights, centrally striped hackles and saddles, and light lace-like markings in the breast point to crow-winged ancestry. therefore the bird would be a birchen or brown red at the very base of its genetics. HOWEVER, since it is very uncommon to see a fawn brown red or fawn birchen, and much more common to see a fawn silver duckwing, this (paired with the lighter red face rather than having a mulberry hue) is why I say he is a cross between the two.

if you don't think hatchery flocks get mixed up and crossed sometimes, you'd be wrong. A friend of mine ordered some fawn and white runner ducks from a hatchery one year, only to have mallard colored birds develop. They called that hatchery and they checked their records - turns out a wild mallard drake had flown into the breeding flock and stayed for several days prior to being removed. (I'm not 100% sure, but I think the hatchery may have been Ideal).

 

[fancyfowl4ever]

I am pretty sure Ideal had a silver duckwing in their dun pen at one point of another, my roo had only a wing bar one one side and not on the other, also had a bit of lacing too.

Also with hatchery stock ya never know, I got Silver duckwings that had no wing bars and red hackles.......

 

[cyanne]

Wow, now I don't feel so bad about not being able to figure out his color on my own!

I figured I'd put up a pic and the experts would be like, "Hey you big dummy, he's obviously an (fill in blank with color name)."

Instead I've gotten a ton of answers that all seem to disagree...

Lemon Blue
Blue Brassy Back
Fawn Silver Duckwing
Mix of some kind with a little birchen thrown in for good measure.

So, I guess what I'll take from this is that he's not a true color of any particular name (not surprising considering that he's hatchery stock) but that he has some of the characteristics of some of these colors. I'm not into showing yet, and not planning to sell eggs, so it's okay if he's not show quality...he's still perfect in my eyes. Though don't tell HIM that cuz he's already full of himself as it is!

If anyone asks in the future I'll just tell them he's my Fawn Birchen Brassy Back Dun Duckwing OEGB!

The only slight downer here is that since he's not a pure color, I can't just go out and buy another one that looks like him or a matching female in the future...he's a one of a kind! And I like this color so much that I wish I could have a pen full of chickens that look just like him. Shoot!

 

[tadkerson]

He has a crow wing so he is birchen, he is heterozygous (split) for silver and gold (lemon) and he also carries one dunn gene. I believe that will make him a lemon dun crow wing or lemon chocolate.

Tim

 

[mom'sfolly]

He's purty, and that's all you need to know!!! I want to see pictures a year from now, when he is in all his roostery glory.

 

[cyanne]

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So, what would that mean in terms of breeding him? If I picked the right color females would I get any pure colors out of him? What colors would be good matches for him?

I'd love to have a little flock of these with nifty color patterns running around.


Thanks!

 

[blackred]

I 99% agree with Tim

He is close to a Silver Blue but is brassy from being in the sun. Some Birchen/Silver blues are almost born brassy.
I would order or try to find some Silver Blues if you like this color pattern.