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[Dance_in_Fire]

Here is a new update on the mystery chick, now named Oreo. In hindsight at least one of the other black chicks should be called Cookie. They are Bumble and White Tip.
I am a firm believer that he is the offspring of the Silver Wyandotte. He has lacing feathers most are incomplete but they are there. He has these lovely golden laced feathers coming in as well and has JUST started growing saddle feathers. I can't wait to see him in his full adult rooster glory. Thanks everyone who took a guess and voted!

 

[chrissynemetz]

He's gorgeous!! I can't wait to see him fully grown!!

 

[Dance_in_Fire]

Just a quick shot of the gold/red feathers coming in.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

ive bred allot of wyandottes your roos chick isnt from a wyandotte roo hes from a barred bird

 

[Jedstar]

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I hatched a little clutch of eggs recently. I ended up losing 3 of the 6 to various reasons. The other 3 i have two i know the parentage of. They are out of my barred rock hen and 1 is by thr wyandotte(the baby has a rose comb and he is the only one with it) and the other can be any ones guess but the chick is solid black.
The 3rd chick i have questions about. Im pretty sure it is by my wyandotte male but at the time i had 4 roos. I know the hen, she is a golden comet and the only one that lays almost chocolate colored eggs. But i know the overlay of white can effect barring on the barred rock. So, which roo do you think it could be? The silver wyandotte or the barred rock?
Chick in question:
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Its mother
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Possible fathers i dont have any recent of the barred rock. He was aggressive with the hens and people. He currently resides in the freezer.
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Thanks for looking and this is just for fun. I dont really care more of a curiousity.


The other two roosters are not added to the poll because they are very red based. One was a RIR (who was also culled) and the other is a golden comet (Red w/ white tail)

I would lean towards the silver wydotte.

 

[RiverStorm]

Just a quick shot of the gold/red feathers coming in.
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I've hatched a cockerel from a brown and golden colored hen and Silver Laced Wyandotte, and he looked exactly like that. I'd say he's from the Wyandotte.

 

[path.otto]

From the pattern on the wings it looks like a Red-Tailed Hawk might have been his daddy!

 

[Marinefam2053]

I hatched a little clutch of eggs recently. I ended up losing 3 of the 6 to various reasons. The other 3 i have two i know the parentage of. They are out of my barred rock hen and 1 is by thr wyandotte(the baby has a rose comb and he is the only one with it) and the other can be any ones guess but the chick is solid black.
The 3rd chick i have questions about. Im pretty sure it is by my wyandotte male but at the time i had 4 roos. I know the hen, she is a golden comet and the only one that lays almost chocolate colored eggs. But i know the overlay of white can effect barring on the barred rock. So, which roo do you think it could be? The silver wyandotte or the barred rock?
Chick in question:
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Its mother
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Possible fathers i dont have any recent of the barred rock. He was aggressive with the hens and people. He currently resides in the freezer.
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Thanks for looking and this is just for fun. I dont really care more of a curiousity.


The other two roosters are not added to the poll because they are very red based. One was a RIR (who was also culled) and the other is a golden comet (Red w/ white tail)

I would say the Silver Wyandotte, but I’m no expert. Good luck with the poll. Can’t wait to see future pics.

 

[Sadness Child]

From the pattern on the wings it looks like a Red-Tailed Hawk might have been his daddy!

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sorry to correct you, but that is a Cooper's Hawk

 

[Eelantha]

Despite everything pointing to the Wyandotte rooster, I suspect a Barred Rock rooster over your Golden Comet hen. I'm not sure what a Golden Comet is made of cross-wise, but mutts whose mother is a commercial hen usually have more chances of looking like they have four moms and at least two dads in their plumage, so I'm not surprised by your confusion. Whether or not your mystery cockerel is the son of your Wyandotte rooster could be cleared up if blood tests are taken. Just a thought ^^

For comparison, I bought some chicks back in 2019 from a man who bred Barred Rocks and a few commercial brown hens for his own pleasure (we get alot of ISA Browns, Warrens and Bovans in Quebec), and one of those chicks grew into a cockerel that looked somewhat similar to yours in plumage.

He's 5-ish weeks old in these pictures, which were taken an hour just before I had to give him and four of his brothers to a person who re-homed extra roosters. I don't know what his adult plumage is like, but it's very possible that he lost some of his back splotches as he matured. The feather resemblance between my 5 week old chick and your 1-2 week-ish chick is striking, though a bit less prominent, which is why I've voted Barred Rock for your chick. Also, the gold leakage in your cockerel can be explained by his mother, as hens pass two color genes to their sons for feathers, and your lady is a ginger beauty.

Still, down-wise as a chick, my mystery fluffball looks nothing like yours, even though he too came from a Barred Rock x red commercial hen match-up.

(barred rock head duvet, mixed in with the stripped back of a red down.)

(strong orange color in beak and shanks; it never changed as he grew older.)

(early evidence of split wings... that trait disappeared as he grew older, for some reason.)

(his underbelly fluff looked a cross between pale and slightly somber yellow. Silver and gold genes were definitely at a standstill in his system.)

(Mostly white and grey fluff, and the faint eye-mark of a red duvet.)

Had I kept him for breeding purposes with his pure barred rock half-sister, I think he would have sired me a few red pullets, or at least barred pullets with reddish-barring. I'm no expert at crosses, but with how prominent his red duvet was, that's all I can think of. RIP my sweet chick, if you still ended up in the cooking pot despite our efforts to find you a good home TTxTT