What are the odds, genetically speaking..?

[Jalyn247]

Background info:
I sent my incubator & 3 dozen hatching eggs home with some friends for their family to be able to do an end of the school year homeschooling project while doing us the favor of hatching us out some more chicks. The eggs they were sent home with came from: Ameraucanas(4 gold/1 black), Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, Cochin, and Light Brahma, (potentially 1 White Plymouth Rock) hens... all the eggs were sired by our Splash Laced Red Wyandotte x Golden Laced Wyandotte rooster.

Current situation:
We got a message from the family last night stating that they think one of the newly hatched chicks is an albino, though they aren't sure, and that maybe it will "yellow up" by morning. Does anyone know how a white chick could come from those parents?? I mean, even White Plymouth Rock chicks start out yellow.. I am confuzzled.

 

[Jalyn247]

Well, part of the mystery is solved.. I know it had to have come from either one of the Black Cochin hens or the Light Brahma hen.. they just told me that it has feathered feet. Also, it did not survive.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I sure see "albino" comments a lot lately. Albino chickens are quite rare. White downed chicks are not at all rare. Recessive white chicks are quite commonly white, although they can be yellow; whether they carry silver or gold can make that difference. And a different gene can cause showy white down.

 

[Jalyn247]

Well, unfortunately the chick died overnight

it had feathered feet, so it had to have come from either one of the black cochin hens or the light brahma hen.. it's face had black markings on it like a golden laced chick would, and it wasn't completely white, it also had yellow-ish lines on it like the wyandotte chicks do... very neat, and VERY unfortunate that it didn't survive.