Perhaps the dominant white could be introduced if the breeder’s white strain was created by introducing white Brahma bantams or another white bantam rather than from existing white pekins.Ah, so then I'd suspect then that your rooster is not recessive white after all! So it's likely that this chick did come from the hen you had thought, but since one parent is recessive white and the other one isn't, the chick is not white.
I'm not sure if Splash can have so few marks without those marks being more dilute as well, I have limited experience there. I would expect more of a dull, almost grayish tone in the feathers for a Splash rather than a pure white color like him, so I don't think he's Splash, personally. I do see a tinge of yellow in his saddles and shoulder in the one close up picture, though, that makes me suspect he's just heterozygous dominant white (I/i+, heterozygous because of the black leaking through) with a hint of color leakage. How unusual for a Cochin! Do you know if the person you got him from is working with any other colors?
As for the hen, that is quite unusual as well.Did she come from the same place as the rooster?
Nope, total different people.
I've talked to the lady i got the roo from on where she got him, she said she hatched him back in February last year-
She never did tell me who exactly, but she did say most of her cochins she had now she had to drive 3 hours one way for- All I know
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Also I really do think its the frizzle who might be hiding something now, another egg I swore was from her hatched out with blue just a few minutes ago- This one didn't have the black beak and appears to be more white, I do think this ones gotta be a blue.. The first mystery chick is in the background here.View attachment 3735653
So far the ones from the others hens are yellow babies-Did you set any from the other hens? Have any of them hatched? If the rooster is heterozygous dominant white, then about half of the offspring from any of those hens (assuming they're all recessive white) should be colored. The exception perhaps being the hen with the gold wing feather, I'm not sure what to make of that.
I agree, hetero dominant white is what it looks like to me as well. It's odd for Cochins, but with outcrosses being done to introduce other genes and make different color patterns, not entirely surprising. I kind of wondered if it hadn't come from outcrossing to Golden Neck d'Uccles while trying to produce calico/mille fleur in Cochins, which would also account for white shanks popping up, but all we can really do is speculate at this point.
The chick on the far right (corner) in both pictures is the one I know hatched out of my red girls egg.
Are you saying that he isn't white at all?
I’m saying that he seems to be dominant white, but only half. If he was homozygous for any type of white there shouldn’t be any leakage, but he can’t be heterozygous rec white because then he wouldn’t be white.
That’s basically a slightly better worded version of what I meant. I don’t think both parents have to be heterozygous dom white though as recessive white to I/i+ would still produce some none whites.What about what this person told me? Possible?
