Can someone explain to me how this happened?

[growinupinfl]

I understand that there is some recessive traits that show up. I don't know if this little chick is just a freak of nature or what happened. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with a white hen..I will show you


This chick hatched from a cochin egg, it is the only feather foot I have.. Mom was either

or

Daddy was a buff orphington roo...

( yes he is in a diaper..)

Somehow they made this..

Where did the barring come from? Why does she have the look of a sex link. And can I get anyone else's opinion if it is a rooster or a hen?

Thanks a lot
Christal

 

[Pyncheon guy]

Probably your white hen has some hidden barred genes maybe....(?)

 

[Chris09]

I would say the mother of the chick is the White Cochin.
She [the White Cochin] could be out of a Barred Cochin and is hiding the Barring gene.

Chris

 

[Illia]

Ditto to the others.

White is basically an off-switch to coloring, so it can hide just about anything. Especially if that white is recessive, it will disappear in all the offspring, and instead pops up Buff x whatever color the cochin is hiding. (looks like barring AND blue)

 

[RAREROO]

I agree with the others and if this is the case then it would be a sexlink cross and since the bird is showing barring, he would be a rooster, but its kinda weird though becuase when I hatched chicks from a Buff roo on Barred hens, I got barred roos and the pullets had the same about of Buff leakage as that one does. So its like the color of a female sexlink with the barring ????????

Here is a pullet I hatched

And a roo

 

[growinupinfl]

I thought the color traits went father daughter mother son? And that the pullett would have the fathers coloring with the barred. Yes...no....I don't know..

Christal