Fun Practice Guesses (Pure and Mix)

[JacinLarkwell]

Figured I'd see if people wanted a bit if fun/practice here. I know who is from who, but it's such a clustercluck I thought this would be good practice

Here is the brood (9 babies in total)

There are 4 possible parents (2 males and 2 females)
Female A: bantam splash Cochin (brood mother in brood picture)
Female B: Calico Princess (Pictured with Male 1)

Male 1: Turken Buff (Pictured with Female B)
Male 2: Black with bronze leakage, 1/2 bantam splash Cochin 1/2 black breasted red Americana

*If additional photos are wanted for guesses, I will post when I am able*

 

[JacinLarkwell]

While not pictured, it's interesting to find all the chicks from Female A x Male 2 had full feathered legs, while the two from Female B x Male 2 had less that 3 singular down tufts between each pair of legs, but had larger muffs than those from pair Female A x Male 2

How this was possible for Female B to have 2 fathers to her chicks is that she was with Male 1 for 2 weeks after being with Male 2 since she began laying. Her eggs were collected while she had DNA from both males still stored for fertilization. While for backyard flocks this can be fun to not know who the father is, it proves that in specific breeding pens that you need to wait a month before introducing a new male to guarantee the chicks will be his alone.

Because Mother B is a sexlink (Calico Princesses are a red sexlink created from a red colored male and a white colored female), she will not produce only certain types of chicks. In theory there is as much chance of different colors as if she were an ordinary Easter Egger.

In my Experience, Naked Necks pass on their signature trait as a dominant trait.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Yep, only ones that seemed to throw people off consistantly were B and H

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Anyone wanna guess genders?


Jk, these are like 2 days old, I'm not that mean

 

[HappyClucker7]

Going Clockwise:
A: (naked neck, reddish down) Female B x Male 1
B: (Light Grey down, muffs) Female B X Male 2
C: (Dark Grey down) Female A x Male 2
D: (Silver down) Female A x Male 2
E: (Dark Grey down) Female A x Male 2
F: (Naked Neck, reddish down) Female B x Male 1
G: (Black down) Female A x Male 2
H: ( Dark Grey down) Female A x Male 2
I: (Reddish down, light brown markings, muffs) Female B x Male 2

Could you put the letter by each chick? I can't figure out who's who.

 

[HappyClucker7]

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Wow! I got almost all of them right!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

For some reason this is reminding me of a complicated math problem!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

For some reason this is reminding me of a complicated math problem!

Which part? Or the first giant question?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

For some reason this is reminding me of a complicated math problem!

As soon as you started throwing letters in there and all the different options my head started to spin and I had flashbacks from college!