Genotype of this hen?

[Ylva]

What do you think this hen’s genotype is?
Her father is Fiftyfive Flowery silver, and her mother is either Cream Legbar/Swedish flower hen OR Cream legbar/Rhode Island red.

The 55 Flowery is e+/e+, B/B, S/S and mo/mo.

She is one of the darkest of these chicks, the others are her siblings.

 

[phasianidae]

It's a male. Based on the appearance it is e+/? S/s+ Bl/bl+

 

[Ylva]

This picture was taken a week ago. The chick has still no visible comb or wattles. I have eight chicks from the same parents. Her/his four brothers has already big combs that has started to turn red. If it’s a boy, he must be a late bloomer. What makes you sure this is a cockerel?

 

[Ylva]

One of her/his brothers are the other chick in the second picture. All of the boys have red combs by now. They are 5,5 weeks old now.

 

[phasianidae]

Male wild type (e+) develop dark breast feathers and a prominent wing bar, females develop salmon colored breast feathers have no wing bar.

Here is an example, the male is gold rather than silver/gold like your cockerel and lacks blue but is otherwise similar in color. He has the dark breast feathers as well as a wing bar developing. The female (silver in this case) has salmon colored breast feathers and will not develop a prominent wing bar.

A mature silver duckwing male with a prominent wing bar.

 

[Ylva]

Here is two pictures of two different cockerels (sibling and half sibling), and two pictures of the pullet/cockerel in question, taken today.

Is it possible that the chick has another gene than e+ that makes the breast black, or is s/he a late bloomer for sure?

You also wrote that s/he is Bl/bl+. How do you see that s/he is blue? I don’t think any of the parents has a blue gene.

 

[phasianidae]

He might not have blue, in the first pictures it looked like he did but in the recent ones it looks black.

 

[Ylva]

Pictures of the chicks from today, 6,5 weeks. I have never had a cockerel who has looked so much like a pullet, if she really is a cockerel. All her brothers has large, red combs and wattles by now, and her sisters (?) looks just like her. Both their parents have large combs and wattles as adults.

Her brother:

The pullet/cockerel in question:

Their other siblings:

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Pictures of the chicks from today, 6,5 weeks. I have never had a cockerel who has looked so much like a pullet, if she really is a cockerel. All her brothers has large, red combs and wattles by now, and her sisters (?) looks just like her. Both their parents have large combs and wattles as adults.

Her brother:
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The pullet/cockerel in question:
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Their other siblings:
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He’s a cockerel

 

[Ylva]

Is it possible that the crest is stunting the growth of his comb/wattles then? If he’s a cockerel, he is the only one with a crest.