All chicks turned black?

[Boccom]

This happened about a year ago but I still have it unanswered ok I had a buff orpington go broody and hatched out 9 baby chicks the rooster was a white leghorn (the hen and the rooster passed but I still have their children) all the chicks were barred rock and at that time we only had one barred rock and its almost Impossible for all the eggs under the orpington too have been the barred rocks but why would this happen

 

[diamondsilkies]

Why do you say it's impossible for the buff orpington to have stolen some of your barred rock eggs? Unless they were in separate pens, it sounds like that's what may have happened. My girls steal eggs from each other all the time, it makes for quite a surprise on hatch day! Do you have any pictures of the parents or the chicks (now or before)?

 

[Boccom]

I said its Impossible for all the eggs to be the barred rocks since all the eggs looked different some were white some brown

 

[Boccom]

I can also get pics of the children who are now full grown but it will be hard to find a pic of the mom here is the dad

 

[Boccom]

Ignore the red chicken

 

[Boccom]

Here's one

 

[Boccom]

Here's another

 

[Boccom]

the mom just looks like any other Buff orpington hen just the usual

 

[Boccom]

Why do you say it's impossible for the buff orpington to have stolen some of your barred rock eggs? Unless they were in separate pens, it sounds like that's what may have happened. My girls steal eggs from each other all the time, it makes for quite a surprise on hatch day! Do you have any pictures of the parents or the chicks (now or before)?

I never said it was Impossible I just all the eggs looked different

 

[NatJ]

I have read that when White Leghorns are crossed to other breeds, they often have black chicks, and sometimes black barred chicks. It's a matter of what genes are making the Leghorns "white," and what happens when you cross that with something else.

So if the father was a White Leghorn, then maybe that's why all the chicks looked alike, even though they had a variety of different mothers.