Ermine? Splash? Leakage? What is this chicken's color?

[CoopBoots]

Hey y'all, I accidentally got a white pullet with incidental blue or black feathers out of a Lemon Cuckoo Niederrheiner x Buff Orpington/Leghorn crossing. What should I actually call this coloration, and do the parents make sense to have created this outcome?

Baby (middle):

Closer view of the back; I'm thinking it's individual BLUE feathers rather than white feathers that are sometimes also fractionally blue:

The markings are getting more noticeable with time.

Father:

Mother (white with faint buff around the face):

I appreciate any insight!

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'd assume the mother has dominate white from her Leghorn parent and has passed it on to this pullet.
As far as appearance wise she's closest to a "paint". That's the same genes as an ermine but at this time a better known name.
Genetically she's not a proper paint since they should be dominant white on a solid bird. Usually black but blue is becoming more popular too.
Just my opinion

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[RememberTheWay]

I second this opinion!

I'd assume the mother has dominate white from her Leghorn parent and has passed it on to this pullet.
As far as appearance wise she's closest to a "paint". That's the same genes as an ermine but at this time a better known name.
Genetically she's not a proper paint since they should be dominant white on a solid bird. Usually black but blue is becoming more popular too.
Just

 

[CoopBoots]

Thank you both! I'll definitely read up on paint genetics. Just so fascinating what can pop out of a mix (although I guess my mixing them so much sure isn't going to make replicating anything easy...)

 

[RememberTheWay]

Thank you both! I'll definitely read up on paint genetics. Just so fascinating what can pop out of a mix (although I guess my mixing them so much sure isn't going to make replicating anything easy...)

Paint is pretty straight forward to recreate. Breed that hen with any rooster just about that is black based or any of it's dilutions (blue, lavender, chocolate, barred (not a dilution but still based the same) etc) and you will get paint chicks. The color of the "paint" of course will depend on the roos color. The simplest way to achieve this is to use a black rooster over that hen though but lots of fun variations are also possible