Who is the mother?

[Sunrain177]

Trying to figure out who the mother is of two chickens in the attached photo (one hen and one rooster) . Barn yard mix.

The dad was a barred rock. The mom could be one of the following:

Black Sexlink (americauna x barred rock)
Golden Sexlink
Americauna (multicolor with light browns, greys etc)
Delaware
Sicilian Buttercup

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

I see dominant white so I assume Gold Sexlink

 

[Sunrain177]

I see dominant white so I assume Gold Sexlink

For both? They could have two different mothers. Could the white also come from the Delaware?

 

[JedJackson]

If the father was a purebred barred rock, then all of his offspring would be barred. The rooster in your picture is not barred. That means the barred rock father was either not a purebred or he wasn't the father at all.

 

[Sunrain177]

If the father was a purebred barred rock, then all of his offspring would be barred. The rooster in your picture is not barred. That means the barred rock father was either not a purebred or he wasn't the father at all.

Not purebred. Only rooster we had so it was def him

 

[JedJackson]

Not purebred. Only rooster we had so it was def him

That makes it tough to say for sure, but I agree with Rhodebar Lover that the mom was probably the red sex link. Delaware is also possible.

 

[NatJ]

Trying to figure out who the mother is of two chickens in the attached photo (one hen and one rooster) . Barn yard mix.

The dad was a barred rock. The mom could be one of the following:

Black Sexlink (americauna x barred rock)
Golden Sexlink
Americauna (multicolor with light browns, greys etc)
Delaware
Sicilian Buttercup

I would say Golden Sexlink mother for the hen.
For the rooster, either the Golden Sexlink or the Black Sexlink.

Thought process to get there:

The hen has the Dominant White gene. The only possible parent with that gene is the Golden Sexlink, so she must be the mother of the hen.

The rooster does not have a Delaware mother, because Delawares have white barring, and if she was the mother her son would show white barring across his black areas.

The rooster does not have a Sicilian Buttercup mother because he has a single comb, and if she was the mother he would have a different comb type.

The rooster probably does not have the Americauna as his mother, because she probably has a pea comb and he does not (but I can't be completely positive, considering the mixture of traits in many "Americaunas." If she is an actual purebred Ameraucana, she will have a pea comb and a muff/beard on the face, and any chick of hers would inherit both of those traits, so definitely not the mother of those two chickens.

That leaves just the two sexlinks as possible mothers. Depending on exactly what genes the Black Sexlink inherited from the americauna parent, she may be able to be the mother, or she may not.

Regarding the Golden Sexlink, she has the right comb type. She has the Dominant White gene (changes all black to white, which is why the hen in the photo has a white tail instead of a black tail). The Golden Sexlink also would have the gene that allows black (not Dominant White), so she could produce chicks that show black (like the tail of the rooster.)

The white in the body of the rooster, and some of the white parts on the hen, would be caused by the Silver gene, which would be inherited from the father. The Golden Sexlink has gold, but that is recessive to Silver (so it mostly doesn't show, but might be contributing to the red shoulder/wing area on the rooster.)