I had a Blue Orpington male that his breeder was fully convinced was Black. The second she showed me a picture of him, I told her was blue. She had him with Blue hens and kept telling me he wasn't. Guess who hatched Splash chicks. lol
I've got a couple of birds who need their nails trimmed. I hate it when they turn out like that. lol
You'd think with being a Malay, she'd have way thicker shanks and big feet like mom and dad.
Do you have any better pics of her legs? In addition to them being off-color, they looked a little scaley leg mite-y. You might take a peek. I picked up a White Orpington hen that I need to treat.
It would certainly explain the willow legs, when all the pictured Malays seem to have yellow...
There it is. Pretty certain is not 100% certain. Meaning unless she was produced from a pen of pure Malays, where only Malays were present, I wouldn't make the claim that she is Malay.
I'm going...
Poop. I can't find the page anywhere. I think Barry Koffler of Feathersite.com had it on the Sumatra page originally but it seems to no longer be there. He had a Sumatra hen that, with each subsequent molt, grew more and more white until she was basically solid white with no black feathers as...
Blue + Chocolate = Mauve
Both genes are a dilute of Black but act independently so a bird could be Blue, Splash, Chocolate, Mauve or Splash Mauve depending on the number of genes inherited. A Mauve Splash would have two copies of the Blue gene in addition to the Chocolate.
Crossing Lavender...