What is the name of the Speckled Sussex color?

[greenfamilyfarms]

The closest color to speckled sussex in a bantam cochin is mille fleur.

Here is a description of "speckled" I found online: "The feathers of the Speckled variety all have a mix of mahogany and black with white tips. Sometimes the amount of white increases as the bird moults each year."

 

[Katy]

I've always called it mille fleur

 

[Dustin Biery]

Thats what I was just going to post Katy. After brief research, it is just millie fluer whether in OEGB, D'uccles, cochins, sussex or orpingtions, its the same.

 

[Krys109uk]

Aren't the OEG mottling on duckwing without columbian restrictors?

 

[Dustin Biery]

Krys, you are the genetics whiz, tell us what it says....LOL

http://books.google.com/books?id=VM...esult&ct=result&resnum=6#v=onepage&q=&f=false

 

[Krys109uk]

Krys, you are the genetics whiz, tell us what it says....LOL

It basically says that various patterns are the result of various forms of the mottling gene (mo). I looked in the British Standards OEG are mo on duckwing (e+) but no columbian (Co).

e+ because the females have salmon breast & "partridge" rest of body where Co would have evened the colour ,& not Co because Co would have removed the lack from the breast of the male.​

 

[sparkles2307]

OK wow thats really complicated sounding... LOL I just wanted to know if I could get a bantam cochin in that deep red and black with the white tips. I liked the spangled one, but its a little too white. I might just go for a Mille Fleure and call it good.

 

[Goose and Fig]

The spangled- like sussex- is dark red, black (green) and white. Mille Fleur is more orange than red. I wish there was a way to get the spangled into cochins- I like it so much more than MF. Can you imagine it in a standard?

 

[Krys109uk]

I think "spangled" usually refers to mottling (mo) on duckwing (e+) birds, so the males have black breasts & the pullets have salmon breasts, as in OEG.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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