Crossed my Buff Orping. Hen with RIR Roo. Anyone else tried this cross and get a chick like this?

[M_nicaaa]

So here I have my week old buff orpington crossed Rhode Island red and just wanted to know has anyone else tried this cross and came out with a yellow chick? All the others are either brown, brown and yellow, or a yellow and golden color. If so, what does your chick look like now grown up?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Hi, welcome to the forum! Glad you joined.

I have not made that specific cross but you should not be getting that much variation in the chicks if the parents are both purebred. There are no sex linked genes involved if both parents are purebred so all the chicks should basically look alike, probably somewhere between a dark red and a buff. Where did you get your breeding chickens? If from a hatchery there should not be that much variation.

Another possible reason is if the eggs did not all come from those two parents. Is there any way some eggs could have come from a different hen or that a different rooster may have found some alone time with the hen?

 

[M_nicaaa]

Well they are purebred I have one jersey giant roo and 6 hens, 6 buff orpington hens, and 1 Rhode Island Red roo. The parents are attached, they are all together but I just can’t put together which chick can be from which breed. I have 3 chicks that are fully brown, 1 that is brown with a little bit of yellow, 2 all black (obviously feom jersey giants), the rest are black and yellow and my one that is all yellow. They’re all very cute, I’m just curious I guess lol