Who came from who?

[phoebusartemis]

I have three hens and two roosters. One of my hens is a crested cream legbar, the next one is a light brahma, and the last one is a splash orpington. Both of my roosters are silkies, but one is black and one is white. Recently, I hatched 8 chicks. I'm wondering who the mother and father of each one is. Could you try to help?

 

[Hucklekree]

I will try my best but with a white silkie in the mix that could be difficult as I don't know much about silkie genetics and white can hide alot. Also silkies have fearhered feet so that negates any diagnostic we could use there as well.

Do you have records of the eggs colors that these hatched from?

 

[JedJackson]

The Legbar doesn't look pure but rather like a Legbar type Easter egger. I think she's the mother of most of these.

Chicks 1 through 6- the black ones have the black silkie as father, and either the Brahma or Legbar as mama. The lighter ones most likely have the legbar as the mother and the white sikie as father.

Chick 7 has the Brahma as the mama and I'm guessing the white silkie as the father.

These are just guesses, though. When they get older their size and coloring should give you a better idea.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Most of these are silkie mixes (probably from the white silkie)