What color is this Bantam Cochin?

[Faisal12]

I'm new to the world of chickens, having worked with peafowls for a long time. Interestingly, I find it easier to identify the colors of peafowls compared to chickens!

Recently, I purchased a batch of peafowls eggs from a seller and he included 7 Bantam Cochin eggs, and all seven eggs successfully hatched. As I began researching and learning about these chickens, I found that I have a pair of White Cochins, a pair of Black Mottled Cochins, a Blue Cochin hen, and another hen whose color I'm unable to identify.

Could you assist me in determining the color of this particular hen and help me understand what the potential offspring might look like if I were to mate her with my Black Mottled rooster?

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'm new to the world of chickens, having worked with peafowls for a long time. Interestingly, I find it easier to identify the colors of peafowls compared to chickens!

Recently, I purchased a batch of peafowls eggs from a seller and he included 7 Bantam Cochin eggs, and all seven eggs successfully hatched. As I began researching and learning about these chickens, I found that I have a pair of White Cochins, a pair of Black Mottled Cochins, a Blue Cochin hen, and another hen whose color I'm unable to identify.

Could you assist me in determining the color of this particular hen and help me understand what the potential offspring might look like if I were to mate her with my Black Mottled rooster?

Furness, is her color, just not the best looking.
It is abit variable in appearance.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'm new to the world of chickens, having worked with peafowls for a long time. Interestingly, I find it easier to identify the colors of peafowls compared to chickens!

Recently, I purchased a batch of peafowls eggs from a seller and he included 7 Bantam Cochin eggs, and all seven eggs successfully hatched. As I began researching and learning about these chickens, I found that I have a pair of White Cochins, a pair of Black Mottled Cochins, a Blue Cochin hen, and another hen whose color I'm unable to identify.

Could you assist me in determining the color of this particular hen and help me understand what the potential offspring might look like if I were to mate her with my Black Mottled rooster?

If she was bred to the black Mottled rooster, all offspring would be black, possibly with some leakage.
They won't show mottling as that is recessive, & requires two copies to show.

 

[Faisal12]

@MysteryChicken
Thanks for your reply..
What would you recommend to mate her with to get better colors?

 

[MysteryChicken]

@MysteryChicken
Thanks for your reply..
What would you recommend to mate her with to get better colors?

Well, Furness is Melanized Wheaten, similar coloration to Brassy Back, which is Melanized Duckwing.

The Melanizers will produce some black chicks when bred to other colors.

Could always breed to blue, & make some Blue Furness. It would require breeding the first generation back to furness.