Is it possible for a chick to have two fathers?

[SeaPolka]

So I've been breeding my chickens (Silkie and Bluebell) and this is what the first chick looked like:

He's what I expected, full black skin, pale grey/white feathers, five toes on one foot.
I have two more due to pip soon but last night, another hatched...

He looks completely different! But I think he could be the product of a naughty little escapee. So my Ayam Cemani cockerel got out and as I was going to get him he suddenly mated with my bluebell hen, not before the Silkie jumped on too! But it's really confusing me. The Silkie is white pure bred, the bluebell is block colour warm grey. This chick should look like the first one but he's yellow, pink legged, pink beaked, pink skin. He has one tiny patch of black skin. So even if the AC was the dad, wouldn't he have more black?
I'll update when the other one or two hatch and we can see what they look like. But could someone tell me what the Bloody Mary happened??

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Bluebells are hybrids, so you started with mixed breeding in the equation. Mixed breed chicks of the same parentage can be very different from one another

 

[imnukensc]

But the answer to your question in the title, is no.

 

[SeaPolka]

Bluebells are hybrids, so you started with mixed breeding in the equation. Mixed breed chicks of the same parentage can be very different from one another

Ah okay thank you. I was talking to this "old chicken farmer guy who lives down the street" and he told me they'll all look the same. But I bred them for the good egg laying and my bluebell is particularly broody so hopefully some good mum's too! Thank you again

 

[SeaPolka]

But the answer to your question in the title, is no.

Thank you too, it's something I really never found myself ever wondering about... until now

 

[Egghead_Jr]

A single chicken can't have two fathers but it could be possible for a hen to lay an egg from one day to the next from different sires. Not a lot is known about the sperm storage tubes regarding how random or chronological the selection of sperm from these tubes are. But we do know chickens have multiple tubes and can store semen for 3 weeks. Any matings from multiple partners in last three weeks of egg laid could be the sire.

 

[The Angry Hen]

A single chicken can't have two fathers but it could be possible for a hen to lay an egg from one day to the next from different sires. Not a lot is known about the sperm storage tubes regarding how random or chronological the selection of sperm from these tubes are. But we do know chickens have multiple tubes and can store semen for 3 weeks. Any matings from multiple partners in last three weeks of egg laid could be the sire.

I think you helped me learn too.

 

[JudysMuscovy]

My pure white silkie apparently was mating with two different rooster one being a pure White silkie rooster and a CCL because one chick that hatched looks pure silkie the other looks. Like the CCL. It's crazy to see the chicks look so different from each other

 

[SeaPolka]

A single chicken can't have two fathers but it could be possible for a hen to lay an egg from one day to the next from different sires. Not a lot is known about the sperm storage tubes regarding how random or chronological the selection of sperm from these tubes are. But we do know chickens have multiple tubes and can store semen for 3 weeks. Any matings from multiple partners in last three weeks of egg laid could be the sire.

Thank you! Learning new things every day thanks to everyone on BYC

 

[lazy gardener]

Not possible for the chick to have 2 dads... Unless... the chick in question was a chimera.