Surprise recessive white?

[kmpcfp]

I hatched out 5 olive eggers in which the parents are siblings descended from a brahma/easter egger hen crossed with a welsummer roo. (Those chicks had sex-linked coloration at hatch - males with yellow bellies and females with brown.).

The hen has welsummer coloration and the potential roosters are black/blue and white with some red/cream. 3/5 hatched out as expected (chipmunk coloring with partridge adult plumage coming in). 2/5 are completely white. I thought the may end up looking like light brahmas, but they are a month old and no other coloring is coming through.

Assuming my grandma easter egger cross has a recessive white gene? The two whites are in this picture from a couple weeks ago. Could the whites be potentially sex linked or just coincidence that they both seem to likely be male.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Can you post pictures of parents, & grandparents?

 

[kmpcfp]

Here is the grandmother (mother of both parents). Grandfather was a pure welsummer.

This is the mother (I think, the other potential hen looks very similar and is full sister):

These are potential fathers:

Chicks now: (both same)

 

[NatJ]

Assuming my grandma easter egger cross has a recessive white gene?

That sounds quite likely to me. It would perfectly explain those chicks.

Could the whites be potentially sex linked or just coincidence that they both seem to likely be male.

I think the matching genders are just a coincidence.

Recessive white is not on the sex chromosomes.

Silver/gold are on the sex chromosomes, but you will not get sexlinked chicks from this set of parents (mother is gold, father shows silver while carrying gold). This set of parents can produce chicks with all possible combinations of gender and gold or silver.