Orange chick with silver stripes?

[BaileyBirds]

At least two of your roosters are blue, so blue/splash is definitely a possibility for this chick.

Are you certain that hen is the biological mother? Hens will often sit on eggs laid by other birds. Of course, if she's your only dark-egg layer, maybe that's why you think she's the mom? If it's possible another hen is mom, that opens up all sorts of possibilities.

This website has some examples of Wheaten e-allele chicks (all sex-links from Rhode Island Reds) that are similar in color/pattern to yours, except that yours has silvery blue stripes instead of cream.

My guess as of right now is a that your chick is a wheaten/duckwing split, genetically red, and genetically blue or splash. Splash would only be possible if mom was also blue or splash. You'd normally expect wheaten chicks to be more solid-colored, but when heterozygous the recessive pattern will often come out, depending on the melanizers present.

Almost impossible to know for sure, but running with the theory that the first mixed rooster is the dad (he appears to be genetically wheaten or wheaten split, red or gold, and blue), and mom is the welsummer, you *could* get a chick that looks like yours.

But I could also be totally wrong!

It could be possible that another hen is the mother, I just suspected it was hers because I see her sitting on them most. I also have a australorp hen and a small gray hen (I haven’t identified yet but looks kind of like a thin sapphire gem) both of which I have seen sneaking in to sit on or maybe lay some eggs
It’s also possible it is partly Rhode Island Red because I do think I have a few of those hens!

They did lay inside of the dog house which is not usual for my hens which is why I’m pretty sure it was her

I’m pretty sure it came from either a green or white egg, if that means anything

 

[MysteryChicken]

and duckwing/e+ is dominant (either fully or partially) to Wheaten/e^Wh, right?

My musings about wheaten are because of the pattern--usually duckwing has a darker center stripe, but wheaten chicks like red sex-links will have a lighter colored center stripe, which made me think maybe the lighter/silver center stripe was somehow wheaten-related. In a blue duckwing chick does the dark center stripe get lighter/silvery? I'm having a hard time finding a picture of one.

*edit to add another possibility--could this chick be lavender? Probably not-what's the likelihood of two birds carrying a recessive lavender? The only reason I mention it is because in my futile search for images of blue duckwing chicks I did run across lavender duckwing chicks which seem very similar to the OP's, just not as red/orange (post #15 on this page). But if blue also turns the dark brown center stripe to a silvery blue, then that's far more likely.

Wheaten Splits look like this. There's one pure duckwing, but it's also laced.

Wheaten, Dun Duckwing split

Gold Duckwing Laced

Splash Wheaten, Duckwing Laced Split(Also carries a recessive trait I call Cinnamon)

Splash Wheaten, Duckwing(Cinnamon) Split(Left),Pure Wheaten[Middle], Blue Wheaten Duckwing Split(Right).

Blue Wheaten, Duckwing Split (Left), Blue Wheaten, Duckwing Cinnamon Split(Right), Splash Wheaten, DuckWing Split(Middle).

 

[MysteryChicken]

It could be possible that another hen is the mother, I just suspected it was hers because I see her sitting on them most. I also have a australorp hen and a small gray hen (I haven’t identified yet but looks kind of like a thin sapphire gem) both of which I have seen sneaking in to sit on or maybe lay some eggs
It’s also possible it is partly Rhode Island Red because I do think I have a few of those hens!

They did lay inside of the dog house which is not usual for my hens which is why I’m pretty sure it was her

I’m pretty sure it came from either a green or white egg, if that means anything

The suspected hen looks more like a Brown Leghorn more then a Welsummer, so white egg makes more sense.
She's got lighter build, & white earlobes.

 

[labelo]

It could be possible that another hen is the mother, I just suspected it was hers because I see her sitting on them most. I also have a australorp hen and a small gray hen (I haven’t identified yet but looks kind of like a thin sapphire gem) both of which I have seen sneaking in to sit on or maybe lay some eggs
It’s also possible it is partly Rhode Island Red because I do think I have a few of those hens!

They did lay inside of the dog house which is not usual for my hens which is why I’m pretty sure it was her

I’m pretty sure it came from either a green or white egg, if that means anything

Given this info it’s super up in the air on parentage. You have at least one blue hen that I saw in photos (maybe the grey one you’re talking about?) so splash is a possibility, as is the possibility that the blue hen is mom and dad is any of the roos.

I’ll take @mysterychicken’s expertise into account to say the chick is definitively homozygous e+, but even then a duckwing gene could be hiding behind your blue hen. So the hen who did most of the sitting (leghorn, not welsummer?) could be mom, but so could the blue (or another unidentified hen).

 

[BaileyBirds]

Update! He/she now looks like this. Turning white it looks like!

 

[WhoDatChick]

Thank you!

I believe the broody hen is my only welsummer hen, she looks like a gold/red to me. View attachment 3901901

Here’s my welsummer and australorp roosters as well, View attachment 3901904View attachment 3901903

And the four of their mixed offspring. View attachment 3901906View attachment 3901907View attachment 3901908View attachment 3901909

And also the two other mystery roosters that I think might be Orpington mixes,
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I’ll definitely keep posting the little cutie as it gets older!!

All of these rooster are positively stunning!!! WOW!!!

 

[BaileyBirds]

All of these rooster are positively stunning!!! WOW!!!

Thank you!

 

[BaileyBirds]

Update! The chick now looks like this losing some of that orange color!

 

[talkinboutchickens]

Oh my gosh, what a unique and beautiful chick!!
Idk what it is though

 

[MysteryChicken]

Update! He/she now looks like this. Turning white it looks like!View attachment 3913792

Splash Duckwing