Is this a splash or a really light blue ?

[Aneury Sanchez]

This rooster looks like a splash but the mom was black duckwing carring columbian and the father was a blue birchen. He has a brother that is regular blue birchen but he looks like a splash even though only is father carried the blue gene.

 

[Amer]

Sometimes blue birds can be extremely dark and look almost black. Could that be the case for the mother? But blue tends to blur the duckwing base so I feel like it would be a bit obvious. What do you mean by carrying Columbian though? Since Columbian is a dominant gene, the hen is either going to express it or not. She would have a yellow breast if she has the gene.

 

[Aneury Sanchez]

Sometimes blue birds can be extremely dark and look almost black. Could that be the case for the mother? But blue tends to blur the duckwing base so I feel like it would be a bit obvious. What do you mean by carrying Columbian though? Since Columbian is a dominant gene, the hen is either going to express it or not. She would have a yellow breast if she has the gene.

The mother was rescued as a feral chick she carried only 1 copy of Columbian gene and I believe was pure ducking base. She has had at least 5 batches of between 9-13 chicks before the batch this rooster hatched out from with at least 4 other roosters that didn't carry blue and almost all chicks were ducking and not a single blue one. Also the rooster when hatched was ducking with pale almost white/grey stripes and the birchen father I believe was split for wheaten, so i believe he is a duckwing split wheaten.

 

[Amer]

If that hen hatched so many black chicks then likelihood this guy is just an unusually light blue.