Breed Conundrum- should be pure; threw a splash!! Help!!

[BlessedChaosHomestead]

Ok hatched 13 Buff Orpington chicks.
Breeding pen is 4 BO hens, 1 BO Roo.

Get 12 perfect little gold fluff balls; and a blonde with black spots up its back!!!

I am baffled.

Can pure buff Orpingtons throw splash?

If not there is only 2 other possibilities.

1. One of my children accidentally mixed an egg up. Problem with that theory is that the dad would be an Americana & good chance it’d be an Easter egger; could be a few different ones but I do have a lot of “Easter egger” breeds in that pen.

2. The home hatched Buff Orpington we had in the spring is not pure BO.
But she looks, to my knowledge, SOP BO!

The 3rd possibility; which I find rare. One of our hatchery pure BO is not pure from the hatchery.
I would lean toward this one, Blondie, because she is the blondest of them all.
But idk if BO can be that pale blonde.
Idt it’s SOP.



What’s yalls thoughts & opinions on this?

My plan was to sell this as pure but idk about that atm.

 

[nuthatched]

Are those all your birds?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Splash can't be produced unless there's 2 blue, or 2 blue based birds.

Buff X Buff = Buff.

I've had Buff chicks hatch like this. Black line on the head.

 

[BlessedChaosHomestead]

Are those all your birds?

Yes. Why?

 

[BlessedChaosHomestead]

Splash can't be produced unless there's 2 blue, or 2 blue based birds.

Buff X Buff = Buff.

I've had Buff chicks hatch like this. Black line on the head.View attachment 3706421

That’s what I read reason I was stumped. Lol
Is black recessive there??

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Yellow with black spots like that is not how splash looks at hatch. Splash chicks generally are yellowish or pale grayish overall without any 'splashes' yet. Those 'splashes' show up in their feathering later on, not at hatch. These are Splash Cochin bantams, for example:

I wonder if you couldn't get pictures of the oddly colored Orpington hen like you did of the other hen, shots of various parts of her that are closer and without the wire in the way?

Do you also have any pictures of your other flock with the Easter-eggers? What other breeds are in there with them?

 

[nuthatched]

Yes. Why?

You said you had ee, I bet there was an egg mix up.

 

[MysteryChicken]

That’s what I read reason I was stumped. Lol
Is black recessive there??

Black is a dominant color. But has nothing to do with what's going on here.

 

[BlessedChaosHomestead]

You said you had ee, I bet there was an egg mix up.

The only way for egg was just a misplaced one.

There is no way the EE roo mated w the Orp hens because they are in separate spaces & have been for a few months now.

 

[BlessedChaosHomestead]

Yellow with black spots like that is not how splash looks at hatch. Splash chicks generally are yellowish or pale grayish overall without any 'splashes' yet. Those 'splashes' show up in their feathering later on, not at hatch. These are Splash Cochin bantams, for example:

View attachment 3706578

I wonder if you couldn't get pictures of the oddly colored Orpington hen like you did of the other hen, shots of various parts of her that are closer and without the wire in the way?

Do you also have any pictures of your other flock with the Easter-eggers? What other breeds are in there with them?

I could but that’s her in a nutshell, all blonde. Perfect Orpington; just lighter than her sisters & the roo. (And the 2 other Roos that were in same batch.)

She has no color mess ups.

The other flock contains:
Americanas, Starlight Green Eggers, Prairie Bluebells, Marans, Rhode Island Red, Barred Rock, Columbian Wyandotte, Buff Brahma, Cochin, Sapphire Gem, Cinnamon Queen.

The EE roo has not mated the Orp hens.

I have one tractor that we rotate breeds depending on what we want.
The Roos stay w their group.
So if the BO group is in the big pen, the EE roo & his 4 girls are w him.
If his group in the big pen, the BO group in tractor.