Typically that's the way it works. Oddly enough there is the odd one that pops out to look just like the one you have. In 2007 I had a golden sexlink rooster that looked almost identical to that one. I guess you and I were chosen to be the receiver of the odd colord ones, it helps keep life a...
Self Blue to White Rock will produce black chicks provided there's black under the recessive white in the White Rock. Self Blue to the blue wheaten OEGB will most likely produce black and blue chicks with red leakage in the roosters and solid colored females.
Silver Birchen...
...bred to brassy back...
will most likely give you a good mix of the two, all the cockerels will be mostly black with silver or gold leakage in the saddle and hackle feathers. The pullets could range in color from solid black to looking like a silver birchen, you might have...