Different chicks, I'm confused

[Itsraining]

Wow ok, well I did it lol. Ok the grey one is believed to be the Cochin/Orpington cross. Brown and black is the Lavender/Buff Orpington cross and the yellow is somewhat of a mystery lol

 

[keesmom]

I found out in my very first incubation that my White Jersey Giant, Harvey, will only give me Black chicks! Go figure. Now I have another rooster. Fowler is a Ameraucana/Wellsummer Mix, and he is giving me yellow chicks. Even with the easter eggers this remains true. Anything else about these mutts I don't understand. The rooster's genes play heavily into the chicks appearance. Don't ask me, I'm a genetic idiot!

White Giants are recessive white, and black underneath. Black is a rather dominant gene, so almost anything crossed to black results in more black. The other is probably wheaten based.

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So your Cochin hen is blue? Black (or lavender) x blue gives 50% black, 50% blue offspring, and you got blue.

Black/buff ones look like typical buff x black (or lavender) crosses.

White is from one of your mixed breed hens. Any pictures of those? Someone has a pea comb, and it's not from your Orpington male.

 

[Itsraining]

White Giants are recessive white, and black underneath. Black is a rather dominant gene, so almost anything crossed to black results in more black. The other is probably wheaten based.

So your Cochin hen is blue? Black (or lavender) x blue gives 50% black, 50% blue offspring, and you got blue.

Black/buff ones look like typical buff x black (or lavender) crosses.

White is from one of your mixed breed hens. Any pictures of those? Someone has a pea comb, and it's not from your Orpington male.

My Brahma Roo is the dad of the white one.

 

[Itsraining]

White Giants are recessive white, and black underneath. Black is a rather dominant gene, so almost anything crossed to black results in more black. The other is probably wheaten based.

So your Cochin hen is blue? Black (or lavender) x blue gives 50% black, 50% blue offspring, and you got blue.

Black/buff ones look like typical buff x black (or lavender) crosses.

White is from one of your mixed breed hens. Any pictures of those? Someone has a pea comb, and it's not from your Orpington male.

My Brahma Roo is the dad of the white one

What breed was the rooster?

my buff Orpington and Blue Cochin ladies were fertilized by a lavender orp. All the others were fertilized by my Buff Brahma