Can someone give me some insight....

[MysteryChicken]

Thanks for popping by, she has some odd feathers on the shoulder of her one wing, I posted a picture last night of the feathers in question. And the hackles deep down look shiny.

I saw.

I would give it time to see if anymore Male characteristics appear, or not.

 

[CrazyCochin]

Thank you so much, her father is a standard sized buff Brahma! We have only two bantam Cochin hens, A red and a white, so I am unsure which one she came from.

Here is her father bow

 

[CrazyCochin]

Here is her father bow View attachment 2582331

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[CrazyCochin]

Thank you so much, her father is a standard sized buff Brahma! We have only two bantam Cochin hens, A red and a white, so I am unsure which one she came from.

I almost think she could be out of the white Cochin because of the little white specs on the tip of her hackle feathers.

 

[CrazyCochin]

Here is a photo of the feathers on her back

 

[CrazyCochin]

Here’s an updated full body portrait of her from today

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it if the chick hatches with the fathers colors, that chick will be a female?

 

[HawaiiCoyote]

Here’s an updated full body portrait of her from today View attachment 2582653
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it if the chick hatches with the fathers colors, that chick will be a female?

I do believe that is correct most of the time, although I have gotten females with the mothers coloring as well - so I'm not positive

 

[CrazyCochin]

I do believe that is correct most of the time, although I have gotten females with the mothers coloring as well - so I'm not positive

Oh, ok thank you!
Genetics are definitely quite the puzzle!

 

[NatJ]

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it if the chick hatches with the fathers colors, that chick will be a female?

Sometimes a pullet will have the same colors as her father, but there are enough exceptions that I would not trust it as a general rule for sexing.

In this case, Buff Brahma father x Red Cochin mother would produce chicks of about that color in both sexes. (You said Red Cochin was one possible mother.)

And with the White Cochin mother, it would be hard to predict because there are several combinations of genes that can make a white chicken. One kind of white would give all white chicks in both genders, another kind of white would give sex-linked chicks (daughter matching father, son matching mother), and a third kind of white could give chicks of almost any possible color. If you like to look up genetics, I'm referring to Dominant White, Silver, and recessive white, in that order--with certain assumptions about what other genes might be present in each case. If you don't care about the details, I can shorten it to "white is complicated."

 

[CrazyCochin]

Sometimes a pullet will have the same colors as her father, but there are enough exceptions that I would not trust it as a general rule for sexing.

In this case, Buff Brahma father x Red Cochin mother would produce chicks of about that color in both sexes. (You said Red Cochin was one possible mother.)

And with the White Cochin mother, it would be hard to predict because there are several combinations of genes that can make a white chicken. One kind of white would give all white chicks in both genders, another kind of white would give sex-linked chicks (daughter matching father, son matching mother), and a third kind of white could give chicks of almost any possible color. If you like to look up genetics, I'm referring to Dominant White, Silver, and recessive white, in that order--with certain assumptions about what other genes might be prsent in each case. If you don't care about the details, I can shorten it to "white is complicated."

Incredible, you really know your genetics!
Thank you for this info, now I know I won’t be able to always trust that way of sexing!
Very much appreciated!