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Your hens must carry some barring genes, and some Colombian genes. That's where the black color and barring in the neck comes from. Dominant white is one of those strong genes. It basically turns black into white. So, your hens that appear plain white, actually have a complex set of genes...

Not quite. Chickens are either silver based, or gold based. You must have some silver based hens. White Rocks, maybe, or Delawares, something like that. I'm not thinking a regular barred Rock would produce a son like that no matter what you crossed her with. A gold based rooster ( you...

The three I see look like males. It's late and I'm getting fuzzy, but I'm thinking there's some sex linkage going on. Gold father, must have been silver hens, and you've got silver male offspring. Not sure where the barring comes in, but if the rooster doesn't have any, then the hens did and...