Chick color breeding experiment

[NatJ]

I've noticed my rooster also has some brown on him, and it's getting more severe the older he gets so I believe he is a multi-color splash? Is that a thing?

Sorry I don't know, but you have a good point there. I was assuming your rooster was black diluted to blue, based on the picture and the colors of the chicks. But that doesn't account for what you see in his coloring.

I also want to know if feather patterns such as lacing, penciled, or spangled would show up?

On a black chicken, probably not. On blue chickens, they might show up as black patterns on a blue bird. An example would be Blue Andalusians--they look like black laced blue. Apparently the blue dilutes the center of the feather but not the laced edges.

 

[LittleBigBantam]

So I did some research and concluded he is platinum, now how would that affect the color of chicks? And will patterns be visible?

 

[LittleBigBantam]

On a black chicken, probably not. On blue chickens, they might show up as black patterns on a blue bird. An example would be Blue Andalusians--they look like black laced blue. Apparently the blue dilutes the center of the feather but not the laced edges.

I've noticed on a few blue chicks there is some contrast in the feathers. One is bred with a silver spangled Hamburg, and I can kind of see a pattern. On a few, however, I can see some lacing. I will try to get pictures tonight

 

[MysteryChicken]

So I did some research and concluded he is platinum, now how would that affect the color of chicks? And will patterns be visible?

I'm not sure how the color will affect the chicks since I haven't experimented with that specific coloration.

 

[NatJ]

So I did some research and concluded he is platinum, now how would that affect the color of chicks? And will patterns be visible?

I don't know. I had to look up platinum. Looks like platinum has the blue dilution plus another dilution, but is still based on solid black--so you should get some black chicks, some blue chicks, some other-dilute chicks, some platinum chicks.

I don't know about patterns--platinum appears to be fairly new, so people are still learning about it.

White barring is certainly able to show up on black, blue, platinum, or anything else of the sort. White mottling is another pattern that can show up on a black-based bird, but it doesn't sound like you've got chickens with that gene.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

You might get some that look like dad, some that look like mom and some that just don't match either

 

[LittleBigBantam]

My next question, is what would happen if I mixed my blue rooster with a buff brahma and a RIR. Would they be brown?

 

[MysteryChicken]

My next question, is what would happen if I mixed my blue rooster with a buff brahma and a RIR. Would they be brown?

The Buff Brahma, & RIR both have black in there tail feathers, & sometimes in the hackles too. So breeding blue to any bird with black will result in 50% Blacks, & 50% Blues. Or birds with blue patches in your case.

 

[LittleBigBantam]

The Buff Brahma, & RIR both have black in there tail feathers, & sometimes in the hackles too. So breeding blue to any bird with black will result in 50% Blacks, & 50% Blues. Or birds with blue patches in your case.

Okay, now what about the rhode island red? I read somewhere the chicks could be khaki?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Okay, now what about the rhode island red? I read somewhere the chicks could be khaki?

I don't know a bunch about Khaki.
I included RIR with my calculation.