Cochin Bantam Roo w/ three other breed hens: what'll they be?

[Tippyman]

Three healthy fuzzy butts. One yellow and two black. Two different breeds? I swear the eggs were from the same hen. Or does this mean the yellow one is a male and the other two female?

 

[Tippyman]

Chilling under the brooder:

Any ideas?

 

[Tippyman]

Just realized they all definitely have feathered feet!

 

[Tippyman]

Found an article on sex-links that said this:

"When we breed a barred male to solid color females, his daughters get a normal and full dose of barring and his sons get only one gene, or half the normal dose, of barring. If the hen used was black, all the chicks will be barred. If the hen carries the silver gene, then the daughters will be barred and the sons white or white with barring. As chicks, we would see yellow down on males and black down with white spots on females."

So maybe my mottled (barred) Cochin male mated with my solid colored (RIR) female and now I have barred females and one white roo?

 

[Sunshine0235]

The black chicks are not barred, they would have a white head spot.

You can get white color chicks from the red star if bred with the mottled cochin. 50% chance of that, they other 50% is black chicks.


RIR couldnt be the mother for the white chick, RIR crossed with black mottled will only get black chicks, and the barred rocks wouldn't throw white chicks either.


So depending on the mostly the white chick is from the red star, and if they eggs looked identical, then the red star could have had the black chicks too.


And in your last post you said mottled(barred), those are two completely different genes, the chicks are split for mottling, so when those are breed together, you get 25% mottled offspring, 50% split offspring, and 25% without the mottling genes. The current chicks you have won't be mottled. The rooster you have isn't barred so you quote doesnt relate to this situation, plus the RIR aren't silver based.

The only brown egg laying hen you have that will throw white chicks is the redstar. If the eggs were colored, or you had a EE that lays brown eggs, i would say that is also another possibility.

You would only get barred chicks is the barred rock was the mum.

If any of this confuses you, please ask for me to clarify.

 

[Tippyman]

I thought for sure I knew what the red star's eggs looked like since she was a rescue and we kept finding one style of egg off the roost until she became accustomed to her new coop, but perhaps I'm wrong. All three eggs definitely were identical, and were the only kind of egg I had that was fertile. The roo just got a lucky shot off. The yellow chick is developing a little light brown on its back. The black chicks have a little tan coloring on their wing tips and chin/belly, but none on top of their head.