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[AJuff]

When I search for a photo of an Amber Star I get lots of very different looking hens ranging from brown to white. What colour are Amber Stars? Anyone got a picture?

Edited June 28, 2008 by Guest

[Jane 20]

Haven't got a picture but they are white with varying degrees of brown markings. Ours looks pure white but some we saw when we went to get her had a lot of brown, it just depends.

[Ange1]

I have an Amber Star, will post photo later, sometimes called 'sweeties' by Karen at Merrydale Poultry anyway!

 

I can confirm that my hen is cream with quite a bit of brown speckling on her wings!

 

Jane's right it depends on the individual bird, think of it as lucky dip!

[Karen & co.]

My amber star is creamy white with sploges of gingery feathers although I'm sure that she has more ginger now than when I got her

 

Karen x

[Egluntyne]

My Amber Link, which I'm pretty sure is the same difference, is champagne coloured, with gold flecks here and there.

 

Beautiful.

 

Will try to remember to post a pic later.

[Laura & CTB]

 

This is the piccie I posted the other day of my Prada who is an amber star. She has cream feathers with beige bits on the ends. She does have a neck somewhere too

[Lapinou]

That is a truly lovely colour, Laura. I wish we had the space for a larger flock...one day...!

[debbie26pet]

what coloured eggs do they lay?

after a couple new birds to add,

 

looking at a black rock which i just found out also called a pepperpot, or a blue bell, or ginger nut after a couple that are reliable layers not very often broody

amber or white star?

[AJuff]

Laura & CTB that is a fantastic photo of an Amber!! Made me laugh!! After seeing that photo my son has adopted an Amber before he's even seen her. She'll be called Alice after the love of his life!!!

[Laura & CTB]

Alice the Amber - definately has a nice ring to it

[Lovemychooks]

My amber star is creamy white with sploges of gingery feathers although I'm sure that she has more ginger now than when I got her

 

Karen x

 

Mine has got more ginger on her wings now as well. I'm sure I read somewhere that the older the get the more ginger bits they get

[Egg Lou]

This is my Amber Star called "Freckles".. she's about 20 weeks and covered in ginger flecks hence her name!

 

[Egluntyne]

Here is my Amber Link. She is only a baby....approx 16-18 weeks old.

 

[Lovemychooks]

This is my Amber Star called "Freckles".. she's about 20 weeks and covered in ginger flecks hence her name!

 

 

Egg Lou, where did you get your Amber Star ? She is beautiful.

[Lovemychooks]

Here is my Amber Link. She is only a baby....approx 16-18 weeks old.

 

 

This is what my Amber Star looks like (my favourite), aren't they beautiful chickens

[Egluntyne]

Gorgeous. I think they are the same difference.

 

My little near neighbour, aged 9, who comes to look at the hens occasionally said she looked as if she had been sprinkled with gold dust.

 

She's right.....she does.

 

She wants me to change her name to Angelina Ballerina or somesuch.

[n2hec]

They are lovely girls and all quite different. Lily is now about 21 weeks and has just started to lay this week. The photo shows her 2 weeks ago. Her face, comb and wattle are now really red so she looks a bit different but her colouring is almost white with creamy wings.

 

[Cinnamon]

Here is my Bracken,so named for her gorgeous colouring.

Not her best view,but it gives a good idea of her colouring.

When we chose her,the breeder had hens ranging from almost pure white,to cream with no dark flecks,to hens as flecky as can be

She picked us really - we had a hen in a box already,& she jumped on top of it,trying to see what was going on

She is a very nosey,very friendly girl.

She lays a mid brown egg with unusual pale speckles, & is one of my top layers

 

[Lovemychooks]

Awww Cinnamon, she is beautiful and it was actually a photo of this chicken that made me go out and buy mine !

 

This is my chicken, Biscuit, when I first brought her. She has got my ginger flecks on her wings, back and tail

 

[AJuff]

Oh what lovely Ambers! I am just so excited about collecting mine next Saturday. The breeder has chosen them for me so I can't wait to see what colouring they are. Does egg colour vary too?

[Hen Watch]

My Amber Star was a dirty white with bits of ginger when she arrived at POL. As she's got older she's got more ginger bits and looks a dirtier white than before. From a distance she still looks white, but she's not at all.

 

At POL

 

Not got a close up pic of her now. But she looks like a different chicken entirely.

[alih]

not got a picture of my Custard ( yes, I have children - the second favourite from the teens was Borat!) but she is just like yours, Egluntine. They are all so pretty - I love the comment about gold dust, mine looks as though she has had caramel dripped on her top feathers

[Egg Lou]

This is my Amber Star called "Freckles".. she's about 20 weeks and covered in ginger flecks hence her name!

 

 

Egg Lou, where did you get your Amber Star ? She is beautiful.

 

Hi got her from Merrist Wood ( I can give you the number if you'd like) but think all flocks have birds that vary from pure white to freckly so just luck of the draw!

 

This one choose me by making sure she was in every photo we took on our "enquiry" visit!

[superjules]

Here's our Sylvie. DD chose the whitest one out of about 50 freckly ambers. Sylvie is our biggest, greediest chook!