How is it that my hen turned out like this when neither of the parents resemble her? What caused the laced feather pattern effect?

ThomasChambers

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The father is a light bramha and the mother in the photo (with the wheel barrow behind her) is a Swedish flower. The other photo is the offspring of her. I want to breed more of her but how likely is it that here offspring will come out like that again?
 

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The laced pattern effect is because she has autosomal red on the back, but the autosomal red struggles to cover the silver edges of the feathers.
 

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