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That’s a pea comb, so the Brahma and the mixed breed must be the parents. I’m guessing the mixed roo is has one dominant white gene and one black/barred gene, so he was able to pass on barring to the chick.

A rooster with a single copy of sex-linked barring will be darker, not lighter. However, double barred males can be almost entirely white, but that’s only with chickens specifically bred for that coloration, and is still pretty uncommon. One example of this would be 55 flowery leghorns, but...