Svart Hona x Buff Orpington...

[junebuggena]

The bottoms of the feet aren't black, so the chick doesn't have black skin. The chick appears to have white feathers, so I doubt that either breed where the parents.

 

[Pyxis]

I have one chick which I believe to be Svart Hona x Jaerhon.  She's solid black with black skin, mouth and toenails but has silver Columbian markings on her neck.  Coolest looking bird ever.  It's not the typical bleed you see on the blacks but closer to white.  Kind of like a reverse Columbian.  I'll get some pics tonight.

I would love to see that! I love to cross these guys, you never know what you're going to get.

 

[chickengr]

Pretty! He might be white or buff. This isn't the exact cross you're asking about, but here's some of my ayam cemani crosses. They tend to vary a ton. All of these birds had the same parents - ayam cemani crossed with a white naked neck.





As you can see, very variable. I also have a recent chick hatched that is half buff orp and half ayam cemani and it has mulberry legs and buff feathers. I think the genetics involved in these super black breeds can get a little crazy. You can get just about anything out of them, I've found.

all of them are beautiful but the NN is special!

 

[Pyxis]

all of them are beautiful but the NN is special!

Thanks! His name is Bowtie. Since this picture he's gotten some orange on his head and in his wing bows. And I mean orange - like bright orange, not rusty red or buff. His white father must have had quite the interesting set of colors underneath his dominant white.

 

[Kindercare]

First chick stepped out from under broody today. Sorry about the picture quality. I'll get better ones when the hatch is over an I can get near them. These are all from a Svarthona roo over two Buff hens. Svart hen in the pictures is just the surrogate mom. I can definitely confirm that some Buffs carry dominant white.





So light yellow/white down (looks whiter in real life than in this picture) with very black chipmunk markings, black eyes and grey/green legs, grey/black beak. That leads me to believe that my buff hen must be: Dominant white (I/I), Columbian (Co/Co),Ginger (Db/Db), gold base (s+), and either roo or hen (or both?) has e+ under their E or e^Wh respectively.

Hope I got that right. Anyone else have additional thoughts?

 

[Kindercare]

Bad news. Another one hatched, but didn't make it. Found it outside the nest this morning. Either wandered out or the broody rejected it. :/

Same markings as the first, but with light colored legs instead of grey/green

 

[Krazyquilts]

Here are some updated photos of my Svart Hona x Buff Orpington chick @ 6 weeks.

These two chicks are the eWh, Er chicks. They ended up with some sort of lacing/penciling:




This is the white eWh, e+ chick, mostly white with some sort of spangle markings:

Any updated pics of how these grew out, weights, etc?

 

[Kindercare]

No, I never bred any of them. Unfortunately, I lost both hens to foxes over time.

 

[Baizer84]

The bottoms of the feet aren't black, so the chick doesn't have black skin. The chick appears to have white feathers, so I doubt that either breed where the parents.

I can attest to the fact that that is indeed the parentage. The rooster in my avatar his father and the Buff Orpington his mother. Her eggs are very easy to recognize in my nests because she's the only hen over a year old and was, at the time, my only brown egg layer aside from a Dominique who was laying pullet eggs.

 

[junebuggena]

The only way that either of those parents would throw a white chick is if they are carrying recessive white. And that would mean that the parents aren't as 'purebred' as you think they are.