How in the world did these chicks have these colors?

[ColtHandorf]

He really looks like a Splash with a lot of leakage as a young bird.

 

[Amer]

That would make a lot more sense, but now I’m curious to see how he got splash

This is his father: (He’s a Leghorn x Polish, but does have one black tail feather )View attachment 2434163
His mother:View attachment 2434165
Him at around 10 weeks:View attachment 2434161
And him now:View attachment 2434166

Oh. That I do not know. You’re right. Tis a mystery.

 

[Amer]

He really looks like a Splash with a lot of leakage as a young bird.

Maybe he’s a really light blue?

 

[britesidefarm]

I just used a Color Calculator, and it looks like this:

All offspring should be white unicolor, or Blue Unicolor. Sound about right?

 

[Amer]

I just used a Color Calculator, and it looks like this:View attachment 2439273
All offspring should be white unicolor, or Blue Unicolor. Sound about right?

Yes

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Here’s some photos in better lighting.View attachment 2433094View attachment 2433093View attachment 2433092View attachment 2433097

Do you have updated pictures of them?

The father and the grandfather both look like they have a single copy of dominant white, which could hide blue or splash under it.

 

[britesidefarm]

Do you have updated pictures of them?

The father and the grandfather both look like they have a single copy of dominant white, which could hide blue or splash under it.

Here’s from about a week ago

We had another full sibling to these two hatch out as well:

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Here’s from about a week agoView attachment 2471997View attachment 2471998

We had another full sibling to these two hatch out as well:
View attachment 2471999

Interesting. They look like chocolate cuckoos, but they’re aren’t cuckoo, so that can’t be it. They also look khaki, but khaki is like splash, so it can only be bred from a khaki x khaki, dun x dun, or khaki x dun.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I had a rooster with a similar coloring that I couldn’t figure out. He looked like a leaky fawn silver duckwing, which seems impossible considering his parents. He was either a white Japanese bantam x red pyle OEGB or a white Japanese bantam/red pyle OEGB x white Japanese bantam.

 

[britesidefarm]

Another update: we lost the younger chick from an eagle, but the two oldest are doing great. One is a cockerel who is now breeding and crowing, and the other a very friendly pullet. The cockerel has gotten a lot of brown-ish leakage while the pullet got none.