Why are grey chickens called every other color but grey?

[BigBlueHen53]

@NatJ:

 

[Bigdumogre]

The knowledge some people have here is just outstanding!!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

The knowledge some people have here is just outstanding!!

That's true. And then some of those knowledgeable people also have the gift of communicating that knowledge in a way that's easily understood by novices to whom this information could easily be baffling, overwhelmig and head-spinning, without arrogance! Teaching is a special gift!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I suppose the same reason dogs and rabbits are called blue and lilac and not grey

 

[ShrekDawg]

Fair point. I'll just start calling mine names like Sherbert, Cookies and Cream, Rocky Road . . . .

I think I need some ice cream this heat is too much.

There is a cookies n cream breed too LOL

https://meyerhatchery.com/products/lisa-steeles-cookies-and-cream-day-old-chicks

 

[Bigdumogre]

There is a cookies n cream breed too LOL

https://meyerhatchery.com/products/lisa-steeles-cookies-and-cream-day-old-chicks

i was about to order them from meyers but delivery and hatching dident match up with some other ones i wanted. They are stunning

 

[Chickenpoonumber2]

Blue, Self Blue, Lavender . . . .I'm sure I'm missing some (probably several), but these are the most common ones I've seen.

Were the people that decided what color 'grey' chickens would be called colorblind? I have yet to see an actual blue or lavender (light shade of purple) chicken. Is there a 'color wheel' of sorts?

Once the 'reason' is explained, if there is one, I'll get over it, but it's one of those nagging questions that new chicken keepers just have to ask, lol.

My friend has a whole flock of lavender and blue chickens! All I see is grey chickens. When she showed me pictures of them as teenagers I thought they all looked like pigeons. Made me think of the "sad beige babies" cause they are all shades of grey to me!! No shade to the grey chickens out there, they are beautiful, and I would love to have a few....blue and lavender chickens.

 

[ShrekDawg]

i was about to order them from meyers but delivery and hatching dident match up with some other ones i wanted. They are stunning

Ahhh that stinks!!!!!!! They really are!!!!!!!

 

[notabitail]

Blue, Self Blue, Lavender . . . .I'm sure I'm missing some (probably several), but these are the most common ones I've seen.

Were the people that decided what color 'grey' chickens would be called colorblind? I have yet to see an actual blue or lavender (light shade of purple) chicken. Is there a 'color wheel' of sorts?

Once the 'reason' is explained, if there is one, I'll get over it, but it's one of those nagging questions that new chicken keepers just have to ask, lol.

I don't know. What I do know is some of CC's grey doves have a bit of a purpulish tint on them. It matches the purple-y colour of some VAIO computers.

 

[Susan Skylark]

In quail we have silver and Andalusian and Blau (blue), but they are grey. Then in horses they actually have grey except the horse is technically white especially as they age! Except in Kentucky mountain horses, which apparently have their own color scheme, as I double checked the color on an obvious dark bay, I was told very condescendingly it was chocolate rose, I was afraid to ask about other colors! My favorite though was showing my husband all the cool colors of my new quail, he kind of scratched his head and said they were pretty but they all looked brown to him, at least he’s honest!