Baby chick genders and breeds

[KyKyMarie77]

Chick #2 this is dottie. She has black feet like the lavender but she has a Brahma feather?? Her mom is the white leghorn.

 

[KyKyMarie77]

This is the chick with the straight up tail unlike the other 4. Mom is the white leghorn. And she does have the feathers at the beginning of her wings. She also has 5 tips to her comb if that means anything.

 

[NatJ]

here is the salmon favorelle mix...Also for a reminder the possible dads are a lavender Orpington or a light brahma.

This chick probably has the Lavender Orpington father.
Reasons:
--comb type (single comb, while a Brahma mix should have a pea comb, although it would probably grow up as a large-ish, blobby pea comb)
--color (chick is quite dark, and Lavender Orpingtons tend to produce black chicks when crossed to other colors)
--featherless feet (I would expect the feet to be quite fuzzy with a Brahma father.)

 

[KyKyMarie77]

This is the 4th chick she was the premie and is smaller, and she also has a little birth mark on her right eye. Her mom is the white leghorn. Her comb is also not a prominent as the others. And she has grey/black speckles

 

[KyKyMarie77]

And the last one also a white leghorn. She had 7 little tips in her comb. She does not seem to have any black or grey spots and does have the feathers at the base of her wings.

 

[KyKyMarie77]

This chick probably has the Lavender Orpington father.
Reasons:
--comb type (single comb, while a Brahma mix should have a pea comb, although it would probably grow up as a large-ish, blobby pea comb)
--color (chick is quite dark, and Lavender Orpingtons tend to produce black chicks when crossed to other colors)
--featherless feet (I would expect the feet to be quite fuzzy with a Brahma father.)

That does make sense thank you! He does have less feathers on his feet then his mom and the Brahma has feathered feet as well so so he should have more if that was his dad. He also has more black on his beak like the lavender where the mom doesn’t have any and the brahmas is only at the top.

 

[NatJ]

Chick #2 this is dottie. She has black feet like the lavender but she has a Brahma feather?? Her mom is the white leghorn.

This is the chick with the straight up tail unlike the other 4. Mom is the white leghorn. And she does have the feathers at the beginning of her wings.

This is the 4th chick she was the premie and is smaller, and she also has a little birth mark on her right eye. Her mom is the white leghorn. Her comb is also not a prominent as the others. And she has grey/black speckles

And the last one also a white leghorn. She had 7 little tips in her comb. She does not seem to have any black or grey spots and does have the feathers at the base of her wings.

I think all of these have the Lavender Orpington father (clean legs, and my current best guess on comb type.)

When you cross two chickens with single combs, all the chicks get single combs. When you cross a pea-comb to a single-comb, you usually get pea combs (although they can be big and oddly-shaped pea combs as the chicks grow up.)

When you cross two clean-legged chickens, you usually get clean-legged chickens. When you cross a feather-legged chicken, you usually get some feathers on the legs.

The white, even with a bit of black, comes from the White Leghorn mother, and I would expact you to get the same color with either rooster. White Leghorns typically have a gene that changes black to white, but when the chick gets only one copy of the gene, it's fairly common for it to miss a few bits (so you can get a few black feathers.)

I think you have at least two cockerels (the one with the "straight up tail" and "the last one"). The one whose comb is "not as prominent" is probably a pullet, and I'm not sure about dottie. (Hopefully those identifiers work to tell which chicks I'm referring to.)

 

[KyKyMarie77]

Thank you! That black feather was throwing me off, it’s so cute though! She also has black legs on part of her which had me confused but since she only has the one gene that makes sense! I also had two more of the darker ones born today and one of them has wayyy more feathers than this one and the other one born today so I feel pretty safe saying the two are lavenders and the one is the Brahma, the one is also lighter

 

[KyKyMarie77]

6 week update:
So I believe that there are in fact two cockerels and three pullets. Starting off with the two believed cockerels:
This is #1 still unnamed but I just call him 5 although he has more comb peaks now. Also he has very evident waddles sooo.

 

[KyKyMarie77]

Assumed Cockerel #2: this is seven, ignore his crazy feathers, I put their water a tad bit higher so they had to stretch to get it so I could see their waddles more clearly, but they just got it all over themselves .