Help me solve the mystery!

[careeka22]

Ok so I just incubated my 2nd hatch and I got this little Lavender/Blue/Grey?? Chick. My Rooster is a Lavender Orpington so obviously the Gene is there but of the eggs I incubated these are the possible hens.

California White
White Brahma
Black Australorp
Buff Orpington
Speckled Sussex

I had 7 of the CA white eggs, and the Orpington and Australorp are ruled out (they are brown or black) so I'm thinking it came from the CA white but is there any chance of the Brahma? So far I've had black and yellow chicks from the white eggs. Is there a 25% of Lavender/Grey too? Or is this blue?

Thanks!

 

[The Moonshiner]

Chick looks blue to me. Would be better if pic was when its completely dry.
I don't think its lavender because it would have to get lavender from both parents and the hens you've listed to my knowledge do not come in lavender or carry lavender.
The exception would be brahmas. There is lavender gene in brahmas but if a brahma was a parent it would have a pea comb and most likely feathered legs.
If its blue then someone is carrying blue. My guess would be one of your ca whites.
All your other hens would be showing it if they have it.
Could be a possibility that your lavender rooster is blue under the lavender. Not sure how noticeable that would be if it was the case. And if it was the case I'd be expecting to see more chicks with blue since he is fathering everyone.

 

[careeka22]

Chick looks blue to me. Would be better if pic was when its completely dry.
I don't think its lavender because it would have to get lavender from both parents and the hens you've listed to my knowledge do not come in lavender or carry lavender.
The exception would be brahmas. There is lavender gene in brahmas but if a brahma was a parent it would have a pea comb and most likely feathered legs.
If its blue then someone is carrying blue. My guess would be one of your ca whites.
All your other hens would be showing it if they have it.
Could be a possibility that your lavender rooster is blue under the lavender. Not sure how noticeable that would be if it was the case. And if it was the case I'd be expecting to see more chicks with blue since he is fathering everyone.

Thank you! The only hen I have showing blue is my EE but none of these were hers. I had one of hers but it hasn't hatched yet (due today). She has had a blue chick come from her before so maybe he is carrying blue also. I'll get some better pictures of the chick dry tonight, it had just hatched and I had to leave for work. Since I have multiple hens laying light brown eggs I didn't know which were from the Brahma. I think I will do another hatch and isolate her with my CA white and just do a hatch with either. They hatched last night or I would have known which egg it came from. Boo.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Do your CWs all have specks of black?
Any that do maybe showing a little lighter color then black? Like blue/dk grey?
CWs are a cross of white leghorns and California greys. Although I haven't found any and have bred many in hopes of it is rumored that some white leghorns carry blue. Of course it never shows on them and in theory can be passed on for generations.
So in theory it wouldn't be ridiculous to think one of your CWs is carrying it.

 

[careeka22]

Do your CWs all have specks of black?
Any that do maybe showing a little lighter color then black? Like blue/dk grey?
CWs are a cross of white leghorns and California greys. Although I haven't found any and have bred many in hopes of it is rumored that some white leghorns carry blue. Of course it never shows on them and in theory can be passed on for generations.
So in theory it wouldn't be ridiculous to think one of your CWs is carrying it.

I only have one CW, I have one hen of each breed. So just one CW and one Brahma. She has a few very light specks on her head but is other wise all white. Here she is. She is my only white egg layer and only one to create blonde chicks. But last time I watched a black chick hatch from her egg and someone explained how I would get 50/50 from her. So I was not expecting this unless it was from my EE (which is wasn't) I wish I could have see it myself last night!

 

[The Moonshiner]

But last time I watched a black chick hatch from her egg and someone explained how I would get 50/50 from her.

Lol
I think I remember that thread and I think it was me that told you that.

 

[careeka22]

Lol
I think I remember that thread and I think it was me that told you that.

Haha oh yeah! My birds are very strange lol. I tried to figure it out looking at what hatched from which egg last night but I have 3 blonde chicks, 2 brown (BO's), 3 black (one SL and the others are ??) and the one blue. So I still don't know because they could be from the 2 brown eggs making the blue from the white. OR the blue came from a brown and one black was from the white egg lol. I need a camera on them! Left to hatch is 3 white eggs, a blue egg (my EE) and a sex link egg. I'm hoping one hatches blue to solve the mystery!

 

[careeka22]

Mystery solved! Came home to another silver chick so it's confirmed from my CA white . She also had a back chick that looks to be female sex linked. So she is giving me white, black and what I guess is blue. First chick dried really light. Will post a pic.

 

[careeka22]

Chick looks blue to me. Would be better if pic was when its completely dry.
I don't think its lavender because it would have to get lavender from both parents and the hens you've listed to my knowledge do not come in lavender or carry lavender.
The exception would be brahmas. There is lavender gene in brahmas but if a brahma was a parent it would have a pea comb and most likely feathered legs.
If its blue then someone is carrying blue. My guess would be one of your ca whites.
All your other hens would be showing it if they have it.
Could be a possibility that your lavender rooster is blue under the lavender. Not sure how noticeable that would be if it was the case. And if it was the case I'd be expecting to see more chicks with blue since he is fathering everyone.

Chick looks blue to me. Would be better if pic was when its completely dry.
I don't think its lavender because it would have to get lavender from both parents and the hens you've listed to my knowledge do not come in lavender or carry lavender.
The exception would be brahmas. There is lavender gene in brahmas but if a brahma was a parent it would have a pea comb and most likely feathered legs.
If its blue then someone is carrying blue. My guess would be one of your ca whites.
All your other hens would be showing it if they have it.
Could be a possibility that your lavender rooster is blue under the lavender. Not sure how noticeable that would be if it was the case. And if it was the case I'd be expecting to see more chicks with blue since he is fathering everyone.

Out of the CWs 7 eggs I got 3 yellow, 3 "blue" and one black. I'm just curious what her split is. Here is a picture of a chick, it looks a lot like lavender to me, but I'm new to this and only have my one Lavender to compare to.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Blue chicks can vary in their shade of blue and can look like lavender.
Here are a couple of my chicks.
Blue on the left and lavender on the right.
Most times blues are just a bit to dark to be lavender. Seeing that I think comes with experience in hatching quite a bit of both colors.
You can also take into account who they came from.
Your chicks do have a lavender gene from the rooster but to be lavender they would have to also get a gene from their mother.
CWs are from CA Greys and WL. CG is straight forward extended black with barring. WL are dominate white over ???.
They can have a few different things going on underneath. I think its rare for them to have blue but like I said its not unheard of.
Now as for a WL to be carrying lavender. I would say that is next to being impossible. As far as I've found no one besides myself has solid lavender leghorns in the states.
Now someone else out there might but it would be pretty slim that anyone does and those birds made it into a production line of WLs and then into a CW breeding group.
So some of it is an eye for details and some a knowledge of birds to know what's common or could of made it into certain breeds.