Can I determine the breeds of my chicks?

[Vanta Lilies]

More specifically, I’d like to know if chicks would more likely be their mother’s breed, their father’s breed, or will they cross into some other breed? Are their recessive breeds? For example, what would the chicks be if the mother is a buff orpington and the father is an ayam cemani? Can different chickens interbreed?

 

[HappyClucker7]

I can't answer all of your questions, but I can answer some. Yes, different breeds of chickens can mate. But, the chicks will not just be one of the breeds and not the other. They would be mixes. So, if you would breed a buff orpington and an ayam cemani, then you would have buff orpington/ ayam cemani mixes.

 

[Vanta Lilies]

I can't answer all of your questions, but I can answer some. Yes, different breeds of chickens can mate. But, the chicks will not just be one of the breeds and not the other. They would be mixes. So, if you would breed a buff orpington and an ayam cemani, then you would have buff orpington/ ayam cemani mixes.

Are they going to all be a cross sort? Will some be either or? Like if there were 3 eggs, one hatches and orp, one hatches a cemani, one hatches a sort of hybrid. Could that happen?

 

[HappyClucker7]

No, they would all be mixes.

 

[Vanta Lilies]

Thank you!

 

[orloffer]

No, they would all be mixes.

Yes, it is the same as any other animal, like dogs. Golden retriever x poodle = golden doodle puppies.

 

[AvianBrain]

All chicken breeds can interbreed. There aren't any dominant or rececive breeds, just the colors, for example, if you cross a rhode island red to an easter egger, and the chicks are red, they CANNOT be called rhode island reds, they can be termed "mixed breed" "mutt" or a "cross"
for your example, an Ayam Orpington cross, or Ayam cemani X buff orpington. People crossing two birds together and saying the mutt is the breed is of the parent it resembles most, is actualy a problem. People will buy a bird for a spacific reason in for show or egg laying, and finding out later it's a crossbreed and it isn't able to be entered in shows, or as good of a layer as a pedigree, also mis identified mixes can mess up the gene pool for harder to find breeds. But the mixed breeds can make just as good as pets, and some are good layers, my original chickens were RIR mixes (production red) and I loved them and miss them. In conclusion, they will be a mixed heritage bird not one breed or another, but a mix, like in mix breed dogs, in any given cross, siblings may look diferent, especaly if one or both parents were mixbreeds themselves.