Are brown leghorns actually partridge colored?

[saysfaa]

It seems odd to have two names for one color.

What is the difference between light brown and dark brown in leghorns?

 

[nicalandia]

It seems odd to have two names for one color.

What is the difference between light brown and dark brown in leghorns?

Light Brown Leghorns are e+ plus no red enhancers(should look as Red Jungle Fowl in tone) and the Dark Brown Leghorns are eb based and with Mahogany and other red enhancers

Dark Brown eb/eb pullet, they are not partridge patterned because they lack the Pg/Pg(Pattern gene)

 

[saysfaa]

So, mine are light brown? They came from cackle who just called them brown.

And neither colors of brown are partridge because neither have the right combination of genes? Or is it only dark brown that isn't partridge?

I've done little more than glance into chicken color genetics. I know a tiny bit more about color genetics in horses and some more about it in cattle.

 

[All4Eggz]

So, mine are light brown?

Yes, yours look light brown.

 

[nicalandia]

So, mine are light brown? They came from cackle who just called them brown.

And neither colors of brown are partridge because neither have the right combination of genes?

Yours are Light Brown and Neither are Partridge for patern

 

[NatJ]

"Partridge" seems to have different meanings in different countries.

In the USA, "Partridge" requires the pattern gene, as nicalandia says. That's the color on Partridge Wyandottes and Partridge Rocks.

But in some other countries "partridge" means the color of your Brown Leghorn hen. I think England is one of the countries that uses it that way.

 

[nicalandia]

"Partridge" seems to have different meanings in different countries.

In the USA, "Partridge" requires the pattern gene, as nicalandia says. That's the color on Partridge Wyandottes and Partridge Rocks.

But in some other countries "partridge" means the color of your Brown Leghorn hen. I think England is one of the countries that uses it that way.

That is true and in some European country Partridge have this very nice inverse lacing/partridge pattern they breed for(like white or gold edge at the end of the feathers)

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

"Partridge" seems to have different meanings in different countries.

In the USA, "Partridge" requires the pattern gene, as nicalandia says. That's the color on Partridge Wyandottes and Partridge Rocks.

But in some other countries "partridge" means the color of your Brown Leghorn hen. I think England is one of the countries that uses it that way.

That’s consistent with my research. In England it seems like “partridge” was historically used to describe the original color of red jungle fowl hens. In Atkinson’s Old English Gamefowl treatise, it seems that partridge is so described as the original junglefowl and bankivoid gamefowl color.

 

[nicalandia]

Check this cool Netherlands Type Leghorns e+/e+ plus some weird gene that makes the pattern(could be multiple genes, unknown to us that study chicken genetics)

Italiener Silberfarbig

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Italiener goldfarbig

 

[nicalandia]

@The Moonshiner is an expert in Leghorns, you would be best advised to find his help about your leghorns for future references