i am very confused

[hailie16727]

All the Barnevelders have single combs. All of their chicks should also have single combs.

Chicks from the Auracana rooster should have a pea comb, and probably muff/beard on their face as well.

So if you are sure that all the eggs come from barnevelder mothers, you can probably sort out the fathers by looking at combs and checking for puffy cheeks (muff/beard.)


So you are sure of which hens laid the eggs, because of the color of the eggs? I'll assume you are correct there.


How many total chicks are we talking about here?


I see chicks with dark and light stripes on their backs. Are you talking about whether those light stripes are actually white rather than being yellowish or tan or something like that?

That might just be normal variation, maybe from chicks with a different mother than the previous ones (if the hens were taking turns with who is laying and who is molting at what point).

Some color difference might be from chicks being gold (like the father and the blue laced red pullet) or silver (like the mother). If the father is gold and the mother is silver, you should get sexlinked chicks: gold daughters and silver sons.

You might want to mark the chicks in some way and track which colors of chicks match up with which colors of adults. Colored legbands are one way to mark the chicks, along with either pictures or written notes. One way to label chick pictures is to write a note on a piece paper, then stand the chick on the paper to take the picture, so the note is visible in the picture too (the note might be "red legband chick" with the date, or something equally obvious.)


If a chicken has one gene for blue feathers, all the black in their feathers turns into blue. That is what happened with your blue laced red pullet: she inherited a blue gene from her splash father, and a not-blue gene from her mother who has black lacing.

If a chicken has two genes for blue feathers, all the blue in their feathers turns into splash. You chicks inherit one blue gene from the splash rooster, but if the mother has black in her feathers (no blue gene), then you should never hatch a splash chick. To get splash chicks, you would have to cross your rooster with a hen that has blue or splash in her feathers.

If you had incubated eggs from Blue Laced Red pullets, that would be a good reason to see some splash chicks for the first time-- but I see that is not what happened.


At present, I'm not really sure what is going on. I'd love to see more photos as the chicks feather out. Sometimes the situation becomes clear as they grow their feathers (gold vs. silver, blue vs. splash, etc.)


What country do you live in? Auracana chickens look different in some countries than they do in other countries. I am in the United States, and Araucanas here do not have the muff/beard that your rooster has. They aren't supposed to have a tail either, although some do. We have another breed called "Ameraucana" that does look very much like your rooster. But I know that tails and muff/beard on the face are found on Auracanas in some other countries (same breed name but different physical traits.)

Hello so i’m not sure if they have single combs i can’t tell yet. none have muffs or beard and i’m certain all eggs came from my silver laced girls. i’m not sure how many i have hatched . the chick you see is one of my pullets who was dark with tan stripes and she was turned out blue and red, also going too add that the chicks my friend hatched out are silver laced barnevelders with the exact same parents which is odd because i assume it’s the same the other way around i can’t hatch black and silver chicks when there father has the splash gene i might be wrong. i don’t believe that it is sex linked because i have hatched plenty of roosters and they all look like the dark and tan when they first hatched out and are now blue and red i will definitely keep you posted as they feather out.

also i’m pretty sure he might be and ameraucana but he was sold to me as an auracana and where i’m from in australia everyone labels there ameraucans auracanas .

 

[NatJ]

also i’m pretty sure he might be and ameraucana but he was sold to me as an auracana and where i’m from in australia everyone labels there ameraucans auracanas .

Araucanas in Australia do not look like Araucanas in the USA, so he might be correct.

so i’m not sure if they have single combs i can’t tell yet.

That can be hard to tell when they are young, so it's something you are more likely to notice as they grow older. If you notice any odd-looking combs later, that would be a sign to reconsider the situation. I've seen some pea combs with the typical rows of little bumps that actually look like peas, but I've also seen some "pea" combs that looked almost like single combs except that they had no points along the top. A nice row of points on the top of the comb is a very good sign of it being a single comb.

none have muffs or beard and i’m certain all eggs came from my silver laced girls.

Good to know!

i’m not sure how many i have hatched

Do you have a rough idea? Knowing if it's closer to 6, or 20, or 100, can sometimes help figure out what kinds of genes are involved.

the chicks my friend hatched out are silver laced barnevelders with the exact same parents which is odd because i assume it’s the same the other way around i can’t hatch black and silver chicks when there father has the splash gene i might be wrong.

I agree, with a splash father, it should be impossible to have chicks with black lacing.

i don’t believe that it is sex linked because i have hatched plenty of roosters and they all look like the dark and tan when they first hatched out

If it's not that, at least we have fewer options left

and are now blue and red i will definitely keep you posted as they feather out.

Can you post a picture of one of those blue and red roosters?

If the mother is silver, her sons MUST inherit the silver gene. It's dominant, so it should be visible in her sons. Sometimes males like that do have red leakage, so maybe that is what is happening here. (Red Sexlink males are often a good example of "silver" chickens with red leakage in some places, usually very obvious in their shoulders and much less in some other areas.)

 

[Catandherchicks]

sorry for the quality of chick photo but that’s how this exact hen with the exact same parents looked when she hatched(i did not incubate her eggs as her and her sisters only started laying last week). and then you can see my hens and roosters (obviously i have more hens they all look like this and then i have some australorps mixes and they lay cream eggs). and last photo is the chicks i hatched yesterday

I’d be more than happy to take a couple of those blue laced hens off your hands.