Silver-Laced Sebright crossed with Orpington?

[ClareScifi]

There are only 2 rooster choices for the chicks in question: White Leghorn or Silver-Laced Sebright. No other breeds of roosters are there at that farm. I have a feeling his mother was a Buff Orpington (the guy on my head, that is). But I'm wondering why the white of the Leghorn didn't come through much, and where those beautiful slate-blue hackles came from?!

 

[ClareScifi]

You mean you think the Sebright Bantam's mama might have been a Buff Orpington? That thought never even crossed my mind. Really???

 

[farmerChef]

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No. I was talking about the cockeral

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

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Not true. My Sebright rooster, even though he's a hatchery bird, successfully mated my Australorp hen. I have the pictures of the cockerel to prove it.

Quite impressive!

 

[ClareScifi]

If there are no silver-laced breeds at the farm other than the Sebright Bantam rooster, then do you think that means my Bantam is a full-blooded Sebright, even though others think she is awfully large to be a full bred Sebright?

 

[farmerChef]

What color egg did she hatch from?

 

[ClareScifi]

I don't know-- there were 10 eggs-- 6 hatched. There was 1 tiny egg, and that had to be it. But I can't remember what color it was-- white, I think. Or maybe off white?

 

[draye]

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That is one beautiful bird. Wished I had some like her only in large fowl.

 

[farmerChef]

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Sounds like it was a sebright egg, if they didn't have any other bantams.

 

[ClareScifi]

And if it were a Sebright egg (Sebright Mama), most likely the papa was the Sebright rooster, not the Leghorn; right?