What color is my serama hen?

[bountyofbantams]

This is Thumbus.
I raised her from the moment she hatched.
She turns 1 year old in July and I still have no idea what color she is considered!!
She has a traditional splash serama rooster boyfriend - maybe exchequer, no clue. And I need to know what color she is so I know what to expect from their babies

I'm thinking shes Chocolate. But I'm not sure

 

[bountyofbantams]

This is Thumbus.
I raised her from the moment she hatched.
She turns 1 year old in July and I still have no idea what color she is considered!!
She has a traditional splash serama rooster boyfriend - maybe exchequer, no clue. And I need to know what color she is so I know what to expect from their babies

I'm thinking shes Chocolate. But I'm not sure

This is her boyfriend.

 

[Amer]

Look, there's not really a name for it because it's not well understood, but I'm fairly certain this is an effect of the dusky gene.
https://kippenjungle.nl/wiki/index.php?title=Dusky
Your male is exchequer, by the way.

 

[Amer]

This is one hundred percent a guess but she looks too dark for homozygous dusky on birchen and too brown to be heterozygous on birchen so I think she might be heterozygous dusky birchen with the dun gene.

 

[bountyofbantams]

This is one hundred percent a guess but she looks too dark for homozygous dusky on birchen and too brown to be heterozygous on birchen so I think she might be heterozygous dusky birchen with the dun gene.

If it helps her mother was solid black and her father was wheaten (not my birds but i did meet them!)

And thank you so much I was hoping he'd be exchequer. What kind of babies should I expect from this pair?

 

[Amer]

If it helps her mother was solid black and her father was wheaten (not my birds but i did meet them!)

And thank you so much I was hoping he'd be exchequer. What kind of babies should I expect from this pair?

I do wonder if perhaps a black base would hide dusky?
This is a total guess from me but I'd expect half black and half dun chicks. Of course, she may be carrying mottling. We'll see.