Is this splash ameraucana "pure"?

[Iluveggers]

@EmmaRainboe

 

[NatJ]

Can a bird be impure for splash? Splash is a dilution of the dominant black gene right? My hens are without any doubt blue and the rooster was splash so would any other distant genes be able to phenotypically display in the offspring?

Splash is a dilution of black, yes.

But just like a black bird can have leakage of other colors (example: Black Sexlink hens), so can a splash bird. They are pure for the splash gene (aka blue gene), but might not be pure for the other genes that make a nice-looking splash bird without leakage of other colors.

 

[Floof]

I'm going to try to take a photo of their feet tonight. I haven't really checked and I'm thinking they might be sort of pink instead of white....