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Unusual Color Baby
Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 3:27 am
by sarizviloft
Hi Adam,
This pair of mine (male on right, female on left) have produced baby with brown check, brown wings and brown tail. What do we call this color?
Re: Unusual Color Baby
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 6:53 pm
by AdamArcher
As you've said, it appears to be
brown. It could also be silver, sometimes they've hard to tell apart in photos.
Either way, the baby is a hen.
(Also, anyone is welcome to answer, no need to address it to me
)
Re: Unusual Color Baby
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 7:58 am
by octavian
it's brown....and fluffy ....dilutes don't have so much fluff on them and they have a a more hempseed color than brown
Unusual Color Baby
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 12:54 am
by CSVA
Nice birds
Re: Unusual Color Baby
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 1:07 am
by VanDerBash
AdamArcher wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 6:53 pm
As you've said, it appears to be
brown. It could also be silver, sometimes they've hard to tell apart in photos.
Either way, the baby is a hen.
(Also, anyone is welcome to answer, no need to address it to me
)
Hello Mr Archer, your follower and admirer of work. I just wonder how where able to tell from the picture that it's a hen... I have some birds that I thought they are a pair but both grew up to be males
Re: Unusual Color Baby
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 5:42 pm
by AdamArcher
We know it is a hen because brown is a sex linked mutation. Neither parent was brown, and since hens cannot carry it we know the father was the source of the gene, and he has passed it onto his daughter.