What is a Painted Sussex?

[Slothinc]

Hello, I have a new question. My sister in law may have the paint sussex. Do any of them have a yellow instead of a white tint? She is about 10 weeks old.
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That white chicken is definitely what I would call a “paint” bird, which is one copy of dominant white over a darker base color (most commonly black). In the pictures the bird looks pretty white. But paints can have the autosomal red gene that gives them a tan/brown/reddish tint. I have a few paint colored birds with autosomal red. I’ll post a picture of a couple. The boys tend to have more leakage than the girls.

 

[Sinadrea]

That white chicken is definitely what I would call a “paint” bird, which is one copy of dominant white over a darker base color (most commonly black). In the pictures the bird looks pretty white. But paints can have the autosomal red gene that gives them a tan/brown/reddish tint. I have a few paint colored birds with autosomal red. I’ll post a picture of a couple. The boys tend to have more leakage than the girls.

Very pretty, it's hard to see the red tint. What breeds are your birds?

 

[Slothinc]

Very pretty, it's hard to see the red tint. What breeds are your birds?

In my birds, it shows up as a tan/brownish leakage coming through, most strongly on the neck area. I call them dirty paints. I have heard that it is very hard to breed out of them, sadly. They are part of a project I am working on to breed blue egg laying silkies. So they are 1st and 2nd generation crosses between silkies and ameraucana bantams