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What colour is she?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:50 pm
by Penny
Couple pics of Speckles as she was wallowing in the dirt pile yesterday and I got to wondering what do you call her colouring?
Re: What colour is she?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 3:01 pm
by kenya
Not really sure but she appears to be silver laced , not sure what the base colour would be called. Very pretty though!
Re: What colour is she?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 3:24 pm
by WLLady
i think she's a silver double laced eb (partridge) IF she doesn't not have any salmon in her breast. if she does have salmon colour in her breast she's likely a silver double laced duckwing. and lacking a bunch of melanizers in either case so the brown is really coming through with stippling. If her breast is stippled and not salmon she's eb (partridge) for sure. she is super cute, and the spitting image of a mutt i had several years ago-who was an awesome broody, but alas not too bright and actually got herself stuck inside a barn wall at one point....lol.
Re: What colour is she?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 3:45 pm
by Penny
Salmon? Maybe?
Re: What colour is she?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 3:46 pm
by Penny
Oh..and yes...shes only 2 this year but brooded a bunch of eggs last August. Can wait for her to sit again this year!
Re: What colour is she?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 5:00 pm
by WLLady
So....might be salmon or mahogany actually. but since eb cannot move that into the breast i'll say likely e+ (duckwing). So silver double laced duckwing.
She actually looks a lot like some of my project birds in the early days of my welbars-like an unbarred silver welbar LOL. and exactly what i was trying to do is get barred (but not laced) silver duckwings-and turns out that some of my welsummers are laced, and i got some girls that look just like yours there with and without barring. very striking birds.
fingers crossed for a good broody again this year!!!!
Re: What colour is she?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 5:09 pm
by Killerbunny
SHe's really pretty, fingers crossed for broodiness!
Re: What colour is she?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:10 pm
by Penny
Would she pass that lacing on to her chicks?
Re: What colour is she?
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:37 pm
by kenya
You would probably have to cross her with another laced bird.
Re: What colour is she?
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:41 pm
by kenya
Check out this one a double laced barnevelder, not my bird or picture but Micah has some for sale bringing to mountforest.