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Why do you think the daddy has duckwing? The pullet chick is a carbon copy of the mother except she is blue where the mother is splash. It is a very pale blue. I can see that the mother may be duckwing based with the red breast. I am getting solid chicks without the red breast from this pair also. In the group photo there is a splash chick to her immediate right and then a solid blue chick on the end. Neither of them have the red breast. This leads me to believe that the father is not duckwing.
Because the pullet is a full duckwing w/splash. Just like mom. Dad is not full duckwing, he's half, making the offspring just like shown -
You'll get a 50/50 of either mostly to purely blues and splashes, though all the girls will appear pure, and then 50/50 of pure duckwings, blue and splash. The males who aren't pure duckwing will noticeably have a some to a lot of leakage on the wings, hackle, and likely saddle too.
If the pullet did not carry ducking she wouldn't have the prolific characteristic of salmony reddish pink on the breast. She'd instead look like a normal pure splash, or a mostly white splash with just a slight hint of blue here and there. Also notice, the pullet as a chick was striped just like a duckwing.
Duckwing is recessive to E/E (solid blue, black, or splash) So a male carrying one copy will not look like a duckwing. He'll either be a blue, black, or splash with leakage of varying amount.
My hen "Josephine" is half-duckwing, and her offspring with a pure duckwing so far gave me mostly pure duckwings. It's a luck of the draw, just like tufts or male vs female.
