I'm not very familiar with chicken genetics, so, out of curiosity, do you guys know what half Red Partridge Orpingtons look like, when the rooster is the Red Partridge Orpington? Does the partridge pattern carry through? I have to rehome the family's favorite chicken because he turned out to be a boy, but we would love to have some of his babies, for sentimental reasons. He'll be living with a friend at her farm, and she can give me eggs. She has a mixed flock (Brahmas, EEs, Barnevelder, BR, etc.) I'm not allowed to have roosters where I live, so I'm hoping to incubate the eggs and then cull early, before the males start crowing. So I was wondering if my boy's partridge genes would come through in his offspring to make sexing easier at a younger age (since the males and females start looking different pretty early). I want to keep a daughter or two of his. If anybody can chime in, that would be appreciated!