Peculiar Feather Legged Chick

[HappyQuackers]

I have a chick with a fine strip of feathers down her legs. Mom is an Easter Egger (solid blue-grey, lays blue eggs) and Dad is an Australorp / Easter Egger cross (solid black with a few streaks of gold), both are clean legged.

The last time the chicks mom was out with our other rooster (who is feather legged) was well over a few months, and I doubt she could still be fertilizing eggs with his sperm. She's "seen" the Australorp mix far more recently, and presumably used him to fertilize the eggs we incubated.

Is this chick just another depth to the wonderful craziness that are EEs?

 

[Odelia]

She may not have seen the other rooster for a month or two, but these eggs have already hatched. That makes them at least three weeks old. Then did you set them they day they were laid or did you gather them and set them all at once. So there is possible another week...putting these eggs 3-4 weeks old. Then chickens can lay eggs for 3-4 weeks after mating that can have a roosters genetics. So yes these could be the other roosters chicks.

 

[Rowsdower]

It could just be an anomoly, I got one like this from a pair of OEGBs who were ONLY ever with each other.