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Update: the cockerel is now fully feathered And we ended up having some accidental chicks hatching at the moment, most likely fathered by him. One already hatched who I’m 100% sure is his. (Note the lavender/mauve spots)

Another update: we lost the younger chick from an eagle, but the two oldest are doing great. One is a cockerel who is now breeding and crowing, and the other a very friendly pullet. The cockerel has gotten a lot of brown-ish leakage while the pullet got none.

Here’s from about a week ago We had another full sibling to these two hatch out as well:

I just used a Color Calculator, and it looks like this: All offspring should be white unicolor, or Blue Unicolor. Sound about right?

That certainty would make a lot of sense... I have one picture of him when he was really young (7-8 weeks) where he looked like he had a lavender/blue/grey backround.

That would make a lot more sense, but now I’m curious to see how he got splash :barnie This is his father: (He’s a Leghorn x Polish, but does have one black tail feather :idunno) His mother: Him at around 10 weeks: And him now:

Hm...With that I’m thinking the mom must have splash or blue parent(s), since the father of these chicks is also out of the black Cochin.

I agree. I haven’t a clue how they got these colors. Mom is a black as when I breed her with a white roo, we only get black / whites

Here’s some photos in better lighting.

I can see where everybody is thinking Mauve here as the photos seem like they’re nearly a chocolate/gray kind of color. I’ll try to get better pictures that shows that they don’t look nearly cream from the naked eye.

I can definitely see where you think that, and honestly they could be. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see!

Well about 3 1/2 weeks ago, we had two Cochin mixes hatch. Both were white with slight black markings on the wings. Well today I just got back from a mini vacation for Thanksgiving which I was on for only a week, and found these two have gotten what looks like Lavender or splash! I’m extremely...