Why isn't there a PINK CHICKEN?

[pinkchick]

There's every other color but PINK!

My neighbor has a pink dove, so why can't we come up with a pink chicken?

I would be on cloud nine if that happened.

 

[Windchyme]

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Well, LOL, white birds can be dyed pink. And yes, I bet there is a way to breed a pinkish tinted chicken though I think doves have color genes that are different from chickens. Would I want to? No, I'm not a big fan of pink. Blue is more my thing.

 

[crait]

I just put in a page for Green Leghorns on the Breed's page.
Maybe you should make one for a Pink Leghorn.

 

[yoker]

Awhile back there was a post on breeding pink chickens if you do a search you could probably find it.

 

[damarisgw]

That would be awesome

 

[PurpleChicken]

No purple either... Yet....

 

[tadkerson]

I think you could use lavender to produce a pink bird. I had a large fowl lavender bird segregate in my large fowl. A dog ran into my yard and carried off the bird. I was going to do some experimentation with the bird but that ended all of my thinking on the subject.

I have thought about making a rhode island lavender and see if I could get a pink color??????. Lavender will dilute red pigment. I may also have to include dominant white. I do not have the room to do another project.

Purple, in my opinion, is not attainable.

Tim

 

[crait]

What about lime, neon green?

 

[Krys109uk]

I have thought about making a rhode island lavender and see if I could get a pink color??????. Lavender will dilute red pigment. I may also have to include dominant white. I do not have the room to do another project.

I've recently started towards pink Orps. From my lavender Orps & red almost Orps. Ruff from the Coop said she thought dominant white enhanced the pink effect. I've got that from cornish cross crosses.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Apparently that has been done in the laboratory a number of years ago. Somewhere on The-Coop there is a thread about it. A glow-in-the-dark trans-species test tube cross if I recall correctly.