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If your blue or splash father carries the mottling gene, then half of your chicks should be spotted. The solid ones will still carry one Mo gene, so crossing them back to mottled will geve you some mottleds as well.

Mottled, like white, is recessive. It takes two mottle genes to get the white tips on the feathers. Your hen will pass one on to each of her offspring, but that's not enough to create the pattern. If the father carries the gene, he will pass it on to half of his chicks, and half of them will...