So I bred two of my chickens, but the babies don't look like either breeds.

[elmoflim]

Can you guess their parents' breeds from looking at them? All five come from the same hen and rooster.

 

[elizabethjg]

Is one parent an Easter Egger?

 

[DuckGirl77]

EE and Orpington?

 

[elmoflim]

EE and Orpington?

Weirdly no ee, but I'm wondering if one of the hen's parents were ee. The hen is a buff Orpington that I bought as a chick at a feed store and the father is a pure white silkie whose parents were both white silkies.

 

[elmoflim]

Is one parent an Easter Egger?

I was thinking for a buff Orpington/silkie cross they really do look like ee chicks. I'm so glad I wasn't alone in it I felt a bit crazy.

 

[DuckGirl77]

I was thinking for a buff Orpington/silkie cross they really do look like ee chicks. I'm so glad I wasn't alone in it I felt a bit crazy.

I don't know where the stripes came from. The hen in the picture doesn't look like she has any EE in her, but looks can be deceiving. I can see, now that you told me, that the chicks are part silkie. I wonder what they'll look like when full grown.

 

[junebuggena]

Weirdly no ee, but I'm wondering if one of the hen's parents were ee. The hen is a buff Orpington that I bought as a chick at a feed store and the father is a pure white silkie whose parents were both white silkies.

The hen is a pure Buff Orpington, and the rooster is a typical hatchery-type Silkie.
White Silkies are recessive white. That means a bird must inherit one recessive white gene from each parent to show the color. Anything could be lurking under that white. Silkie feathering is also a recessive gene. Buff is a complicated color, one that is still not fully understood. It can hide all sorts of things.

 

[drumstick diva]

agree buff orp pullet and hatchery type silkie cockerel

 

[elmoflim]

 

[elmoflim]

I like that I can tell the Roos apart by color and comb. The girls are a lighter color with more black one them