What colour?

[albinosilver]

Anyone ever had a chick this colour? What did it end up looking like grown up?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Anyone ever had a chick this colour? What did it end up looking like grown up?

Looks like possibly mottled, or Partridge based pattern.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Won't know until it fully feathers out though, just an educated guess.

 

[albinosilver]

Thanks, I was thinking like a millefleur pattern but mottled is probably more likely

 

[MysteryChicken]

Thanks, I was thinking like a millefleur pattern but mottled is probably more likely

Mille Fleur is mottled.

 

[NatJ]

Mille Fleur is mottled.

There are too many names for chicken colors with that gene!

We call the gene mottled, but then the chicken variety actually gets called Millie Fleur d'Uccle, or Mottled Ancona, or Jubilee Orpington, or Speckled Sussex, or Spangled Cornish, or Pearl Old English Game Bantam, or Porcelain d'Uccle, or...

 

[MysteryChicken]

There are too many names for chicken colors with that gene!

We call the gene mottled, but then the chicken variety actually gets called Millie Fleur d'Uccle, or Mottled Ancona, or Jubilee Orpington, or Speckled Sussex, or Spangled Cornish, or Pearl Old English Game Bantam, or Porcelain d'Uccle, or...

Yeah, I know. I don't know why there's so many different names for the pattern.

What's your opinion on the chick's color?

 

[NatJ]

What's your opinion on the chick's color?

I'm pretty bad at matching patterned juvenile colors to adult colors, but it reminds me of some Buckeye chicks I once had. They showed quite a lot of patterning in their feathers when they were young, and then grew up to be solid dark brown with black tails.

I've also seen Partridge or Double Laced chicks with similar patterns.

I don't actually think there is any mottling on that chick, but of course I could easily be wrong. My track record for identifying mottling in chicks is really bad--I had a Millie Fleur and a Wheaten chick (same breed, same gender, different colors), that I mis-identified for quite some time. The Wheaten one had little mottled-looking spots that later disappeared, and the Millie Fleur didn't develop her spots until later!

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'm pretty bad at matching patterned juvenile colors to adult colors, but it reminds me of some Buckeye chicks I once had. They showed quite a lot of patterning in their feathers when they were young, and then grew up to be solid dark brown with black tails.

I've also seen Partridge or Double Laced chicks with similar patterns.

I don't actually think there is any mottling on that chick, but of course I could easily be wrong. My track record for identifying mottling in chicks is really bad--I had a Millie Fleur and a Wheaten chick (same breed, same gender, different colors), that I mis-identified for quite some time. The Wheaten one had little mottled-looking spots that later disappeared, and the Millie Fleur didn't develop her spots until later!

My girl Wheaty had little spots in her Juvenile plumage.

Her as a Day old chick.

Her at about 3 weeks old.

Here's Wheaty at around 6 weeks old.