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LOL is so correct! Algebra would be easy if X +Y equaled z in the world of chicken colors. Its truly a mixed bag at times. Truthfully there is a few charts out there that can be somewhat helpful or even more confusing depending on specifics. Try the search button with a question.

Ha, chickens are like a box of chocolates in the fact you never know what you are going to get! Hidden traits can always arise from within. If you have a box of crayons and blend 2 or 3 different colors together, (shading), the outcome generally produces a color within the spectrum, but not...

Do they both have feathered legs?

Ugh! I wish you guys wouldn't talk with letters. I have a herringbone barred rooster and a solid blue grey hen with black neck hackles. The eyes of the rooster are orange and both have large leg shanks. Hen and rooster body size is large. Rooster has white skin and the hen has yellow skin. So...

I would like to learn more about trait transfers between 2 different sexed breeds. Color is one, but what features or progeny can you expect to transfer when crossbreeding. Which sex carries the most dominant features one could expect?

Sorry, but I used a blue orp photo off the internet. Mine is definitely a blue. Cuckoo/ barring of the malines reminds me more of a sports coat I had with herring bone weave. Sorry on both accounts! I take it inhibiting means cuckoo/barring is a more dominant gene and mixed with the blue I could...

This is a malines rooster and hen. Mating malines rooster to blue orp hen. Do your majic.

Thiis is the blue orpington.

Just to add some fresh meat, I am crossing a blue orp silver gray with black hackles to a herringbone weave Malines breed. Both are tasty birds with a good portion of breast meat. Since the rooster carries one genetic and the hen 2, I am wondering what the color will be when chicks are born?