"Blue" Orp...not Blue?

[GwynniesHenniesChicks]

Blue is an incomplete dominant gene to be blue your bird must have 1 blue gene and splash is when they have 2, lets say this is the blue gene B and this is black b, your blue is Bb and the black is bb
Top row is the blue side is the black
B b
b Bb bb
b Bb bb

You can see from this cross you have a 50 percentage chance of either colour per chick

Splash crossed with black.
Splash BB, black bb
Splash top, black side

B B
b Bb Bb
b Bb Bb

With this cross you have 100% blue

The percentage of what colour you get is per chick, so if you have 50% chance of getting a colour and you have 6 chick the batch won’t be half one colour half the other, each chick will have 50% chance of being either colour

I am not sure what you mean with the mottled, mottled is a pattern which goes on to other colours, so you can have black mottled, blue mottled and splash mottled (I don’t know much about mottled)

Thank you, gosh I love chicken genetics. I'm not super sure how the hen's genes work. She is a 3rd gen black mottled. With the orginal hen, no matter what she crossed with, 75-85% of the chicks came out black mottled as well, the same with her daughter, and now it seems the same with her granddaughter that I have now. This hen's father was a Faverolles x Polish roo with all the bells and whistles, long shaggy Crest, extra toes, duplex comb, and he was a pale green with dark green spots and stripes and green tail. I have no idea how that color happened, but even with all that all his chicks with the hen came out black mottled. I assume it's black being dominant and mottling being dominant, but it's funny to me because for a while just about our whole flock was black mottled.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I’d agree the bird is blue with gold leakage, or possibly Mauve. I don’t have a Mauve male to compare him to, but he’s certainly not Splash.

 

[GwynniesHenniesChicks]

I’d agree the bird is blue with gold leakage, or possibly Mauve. I don’t have a Mauve male to compare him to, but he’s certainly not Splash.

The female I got with him looked very mauve to me, but I have never seen a mauve roo and I can't find any online :/