Post your barnyard mixes!

[FuzzyCritters]

Looking at your bird, it might be a Crested Cream Legbar over a Cucco Marans hen. I don't know about Cucco Marans combs, but I know USA Legbars all have two spikes thinner than the others in their combs, and your hen showed that trait in her comb. I also think Cucco Marans for a mom because your hen doesn't look any different than a CCL hen color-wise, while there are chances the copper neck feathers of a Black Copper Marans hen might have transmitted to her daughters. I could be wrong though, I'm still learning to tell parentage at a glance.

@MissiMullis OE is likely a Legbar rooster over Welsummer hen, a common hatchery cross that produces that color. Legbar over Cuckoo Marans would give black barred chicks.

 

[Eelantha]

Here’s the father. He’s just a hatchery barred rock. I don’t know that I’ve seen a crested barred rooster lol. It’ll be interesting to watch these mixes grow out!

Okay that does it, I'm almost certain your chick is a boy. He has the same plumage color as his dad!

 

[MissiMullis]

Okay that does it, I'm almost certain your chick is a boy. He has the same plumage color as his dad!

I’m fairly certain it’s a boy too lol. The three lightest ones all have several roo qualities. The coolest looking one is still that light colored one! He almost looks like a mauve today

 

[Eelantha]

I’m fairly certain it’s a boy too lol. The three lightest ones all have several roo qualities. The coolest looking one is still that light colored one! He almost looks like a mauve today

'like a mauve today'?

 

[MissiMullis]

'like a mauve today'?

This chick. I was looking at him today and he seems to have a massive color I’ve seen on silkies

 

[Eelantha]

This chick. I was looking at him today and he seems to have a massive color I’ve seen on silkies

Are you going to name him Mauve?

 

[MissiMullis]

Are you going to name him Mauve?

Haha! Heck no!

 

[MissiMullis]

Are you going to name him Mauve?

Oh lord, I just read my earlier comment again... his color seems to be mauve. Which is an odd color coming from a barred rock roo and most likely my olive Egger hen (we think cream legbar over Welsummer)

 

[Eelantha]

Oh lord, I just read my earlier comment again... his color seems to be mauve. Which is an odd color coming from a barred rock roo and most likely my olive Egger hen (we think cream legbar over Welsummer)

He looks like a barred lavender rooster. It makes me wonder what the barred lavender hen would have looked like, and whether male and female chicks could be sexed at hatch.

 

[Eelantha]

Just to make sure:

Crested Cream Legbar rooster x Welsumer hen = F1 Olive Egger hen
F1 Olive Egger hen x Barred Plymouth Rock Rooster = F2 Barred Lavender cockerel (Mauve)

Breeding your cockerel to more barred Plymouths isn't likely to produce more lavender chicks. However, if your barred lavender cockerel is mated back to his mother, who seems to carry the lavender gene (her father might come from an Opal Legbar line), chances are some of the F3 chicks will be lavender. The barred gene is dominant, so it will likely appear too. The question of whether lavender barred chicks are sexable at hatch would be answered, as well.