Black star hens crossed with black mix breed rooster possible results?

This was my Australorp mix that has Darcy's real mom all along which is mind blowing because I always thought it was Susan
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Kinda mind blowing but definitely makes a lot more sense
I'm no genetics expert by any means. (Only here doing my own similair research, haha). But black seems to be a pretty dominate trait. I'd guess your babies would be mostly black. In my experience, black x black = black.

I have a black BYM rooster named Charcoal. He looks similair to yours, and his mom even looks similiar to your blue hen as well. She's a Rhode Island Blue (aka Blue Australorp cross) and she has the silver leakage like your hen does. My rooster's dad was a red orpington. Charcoal has produced 100% black babies when bred to black, lavender, and silver (SLW) hens. He has produced a mix of black, blue, and silver babies when crossed with blue (w/ silver leakage) hens. He's produced both silver and red chicks when crossed with my Speckled Sussex hen.

I don't really know anything about barring, except I believe that it's a gene that should always present itself (exception being white/silver birds of course). I don't think your guy has the barring gene.

Charcoal:
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Charcoal's mom (Chicory):
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Some of Charcoal's babies:
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