Mystery chick - pic heavy

[citybiddies]

Hi, we need some help figuring out what breed this chick might be. We got some brown eggs from another family to put under our broody hen and this is one of them. It didn't have any of the brown when it was first hatched. Was all black with a small amount of cream color in it's lower abdomen. Also, thoughts on gender? It's a little over 4 weeks in these pics. Thanks so much for any help!

 

[willowbranchfarm]

It's a mix. I dont know of what. Looks like a girl though.

 

[WinklerFarms]

Could be something like a 2nd gen bsl. Can you talk to the people you got the eggs from? If you knew what breeds they have it would be easier to narrow down what the mix is.

 

[Majd]

It's A girl but dn't know the breed!!

 

[citybiddies]

I asked them for more info about the potential moms and dads (it was a mystery egg even to them, they didn't know which hen it was from), but I haven't heard back. I do know they have two roos. This one is the dominant one


And another of the same roo:


And this is the "non-dominant" rooster. However, I'm not sure how accurate that description is since 2 of our 4 chicks from this hatch have rose combs.

 

[WinklerFarms]

Dominant or not both Roos breed most of the hens.

If it was black with cream the sire was most likely the Dominique roo and I would guess over some type of red hen.

 

[nurse_turtle]

I believe it to be a mutt fathered by the red rooster. If it had been fathered by the Dominique roo, it would have some barring on its feathers due to the dominant gene involved with barred feathers.

 

[dretd]

It looks to me like the comb is black--is that true or just my screen? Silkies have black skin but 5 toes and Sumatras can have black combs but lay white eggs Maybe there is another black-combed breed out there I don't recall. I wonder if this one is from a mixed hen-half Sumatra/half something else?

 

[WinklerFarms]

I believe it to be a mutt fathered by the red rooster. If it had been fathered by the Dominique roo, it would have some barring on its feathers due to the dominant gene involved with barred feathers.

Not necessarily. Te barring can still be there it is just covered. And also look at the combs. The chick has a rose comb.

 

[dretd]

Not necessarily. Te barring can still be there it is just covered. And also look at the combs. The chick has a rose comb.

Interestingly, barring is a dominant trait so a barred male (they are opposite to humans and the males have 2 identical gene copies--ZZ--like the human female's XX) has 2 copies of the barring gene so both male and female chicks will get one copy and will look barred. You use a female barred breed for making sex-links so that all the males will get a barred copy and none of the females do so they are unbarred. Nurse_turtle is correct.