Cross? HELP NEEDED.

[Chickpalooza]

I have 8 wk old chicks I hatched and am having some confusion

ok so the fist confusing this I’m encountering is the comb of the first chick. The eggs came from our bantam coop consisting of a silver laced sebright and polish along with a blue silkie and white silkie roo. None of their combs look like that. Weird comb cross or something else? Next, a black silkie. We have no black chickens in that coop so why did a black one hatch out? I might sound kind of dumb but this has genuinely got me stumped.I have reason to believe that the gray chick is a rooster and the black is a hen. Both 8 wks old. Thoughts?

edit 1: just found out my silkie roo is a broiler silkie but idk if that makes a difference

 

[my gang eats grass]

Blue gene can produce blue, black, and gray,(blue silkie) and your silver laced sebright probably also carries black gene. Are you saying the blue and the white silkie are both roos, or is just the white a roo?

 

[Chickpalooza]

Blue gene can produce blue, black, and gray,(blue silkie) and your silver laced sebright probably also carries black gene. Are you saying the blue and the white silkie are both roos, or is just the white a roo?

White roo blue Hen

 

[Chickpalooza]

Blue gene can produce blue, black, and gray,(blue silkie) and your silver laced sebright probably also carries black gene. Are you saying the blue and the white silkie are both roos, or is just the white a roo?

I kinda thought that but all the charts I looked at never mentioned that. Sebrights are bred specifically for lacing but since both have silkie feathering I don’t know what that would look like. Black chick has all silkie traits while the gray has a strange comb and reduced crest size.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Blue gene can produce blue, black, and gray,(blue silkie) and your silver laced sebright probably also carries black gene. Are you saying the blue and the white silkie are both roos, or is just the white a roo?

Blue and the gray you’re referring to are the same. Blue produces black, blue, and splash.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I have 8 wk old chicks I hatched and am having some confusion View attachment 2680013View attachment 2680015View attachment 2680016View attachment 2680022ok so the fist confusing this I’m encountering is the comb of the first chick. The eggs came from our bantam coop consisting of a silver laced sebright and polish along with a blue silkie and white silkie roo. None of their combs look like that. Weird comb cross or something else? Next, a black silkie. We have no black chickens in that coop so why did a black one hatch out? I might sound kind of dumb but this has genuinely got me stumped.I have reason to believe that the gray chick is a rooster and the black is a hen. Both 8 wks old. Thoughts?

edit 1: just found out my silkie roo is a broiler silkie but idk if that makes a difference

The chick with the odd comb is a purebred silkie. The comb is a pea comb, which can happen in silkies, as they do have the genes for it. It’s especially common in hatchery or pet quality ones.

 

[Chickpalooza]

The chick with the odd comb is a purebred silkie. The comb is a pea comb, which can happen in silkies, as they do have the genes for it. It’s especially common in hatchery or pet quality ones.

What about the crest? It’s much smaller than the other chicks crest but in theory they’re both pure silkies. Does it have something to do with the father being a broiler silkie?

edit for clarification: the father is a white broiler silkie with barely any crest so is that the cause or does it indicate that the gray chick is a rooster?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

What about the crest? It’s much smaller than the other chicks crest but in theory they’re both pure silkies. Does it have something to do with the father being a broiler silkie?

edit for clarification: the father is a white broiler silkie with barely any crest so is that the cause or does it indicate that the gray chick is a rooster?

Yes, the hatchery quality father gave his chick a smaller crest.

 

[my gang eats grass]

Blue and the gray you’re referring to are the same.

Oh ok, sorry. lol, I got grey mixed up with splash.