Whats my cochin hens colour called?

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Ive been curious about what colour my Cochins are, and im finally a little less busy so heres some pictures, black mottled rooster, lavender hen, what are the other two hens? And please correct me if im wrong
 

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I think the one hen is blue splash rather than lavender.

The other hen is blue.

I'm not sure about the mottled hen. Is she blue mottled? Chocolate mottled? Not sure. I suspect she has mixed color genes.
Blues are darker then my lavender hen, shes a really light gray like my lavender guinea fowl. I thought the blue was the mottled one and then chocolate blue as the brown hen
 

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Your mystery birds both appear to be chocolate. The mottled appears to have blue, as well. The solid, I can't tell if there's blue.

(There's 2 types of chocolate, and they look similar but act differently.)

Your other two are as you say. Lavender, and mottled.
 
Your mystery birds both appear to be chocolate. The mottled appears to have blue, as well. The solid, I can't tell if there's blue.

(There's 2 types of chocolate, and they look similar but act differently.)

Your other two are as you say. Lavender, and mottled.
The mottled one has a lot of blue and in the other one shes like half blue half brown but in a vary cool pattern i keep saying to myself thats shes like a chocolate blue

Edit: the blue mottled also has some browns but it doesn’t look like much due to the mottled part of her, they are beautiful old hens i recently bought
 
The mottled one has a lot of blue and in the other one shes like half blue half brown but in a vary cool pattern i keep saying to myself thats shes like a chocolate blue

Edit: the blue mottled also has some browns but it doesn’t look like much due to the mottled part of her, they are beautiful old hens i recently bought
I've been eyeing chocolate birds, but just haven't gotten any yet.

There's 2 types of chocolate (if there are more, I haven't heard of them yet)
Sex-Linked Chocolate, and Dun Chocolate.
Different people may call them different things.

Both can mix with Blue (BBS) so that makes it more confusing.

Chocolate (SL) + Blue = "Mauve"
I think you can also get a Splash version, and I'm not sure what that's called.

Dun + Blue, I don't recall how that works
But Dun works similar to BBS.
Dun + Dun = Khaki
 

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