Ever seen black and white chipmunk?

[J-Habs]

New development in the case..... I just had another dark chipmunk hatch from a blue egg, which means it's neither of the hens I thought! Now I think it's from a blue hen that is from a Splash Marans rooster and a Silver Leghorn hen. Silver Leghorn would explain the duckwing, I guess.

 

[NatJ]

In todays hatch, I'm thrown off by 2 of the chicks. I have one that's a black and white chipmunk, and one orange and yellow chipmunk!

Chipmunk striped chicks are pretty common. The typical brown & black ones grow up to be Brown Leghorns or Speckled Sussex or Black Breasted Red Old English Game or various other colors & patterns. All those examples have black and brown in their adult coloring too. (Not that yours are any of those breeds, just that those breeds do have chipmunk stripes as chicks.)

Chipmunk chicks in black & white will typically grow up to have black & silver (white) in their feathers. An example is Silver Duckwing Old English Game or Silver Dorking. They have silver (white) in place of gold (brown or red) in their coloring.

Chipmunk chicks in orange & white will have the black replaced with white. So they grow up to have brown or red or gold, plus white. I've seen that color chicks in Red Shouldered White Yokohamas, and in White Laced Red Cornish. I doubt your chick will actually match either of those specific breeds, but they're the first two examples that spring to my mind. Each of them has red with white (no black).

I'm also assuming that all chipmunk looking chicks have barring in their lineage. Am I wrong? Now I'm reading that other types that aren't necessary barred can have the chipmunk look.

Barring makes white lines across the feathers, no matter what other color the feathers have. Barring often causes a white dot on the head at hatch (pretty reliable on black chick down, less reliable on chipmunk-striped chick down, not visible at all on chicks with very light colors of down.)

For your chick that has black down and a light dot on the head, I expect it to grow black feathers that have white barring.

does this chipmunk give any clues as to if it's a boy or girl?

my biggest curiosity is if they're males or females. The father is puree Novogen Brown, but the moms are mutts.

With that father, I do not think you will get any color-sexable chicks. You could get males and females with either coloring of the chipmunk-striped chicks.

 

[J-Habs]

Pic 1 is from a Splash Marans rooster and Silver Leghorn hen
Pic 2 is from the same Splash Marans rooster, but a barred crested Olive Egger
Pic 3 is an Easter Egger I got from Tractor Supply.
Pic 4 is from a mutt Olive Egger rooster (my profile picture) and the barred crested Olive Egger hen.
- These are the only possible mothers, and the Novogen Brown rooster is the only possible father. I have a more egg to hatch (from the all black hen) and 2 that just hatched that are still too wet and slimey to tell their exact colors.