What Color Cochin Would You Call This

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

If they are all from the same parents, then definaltey blue/black/spalsh, and white is a possiblity

 

[walkswithdog]

Well with the autosomal juvenille barring at least you can sex sort quickly. Since the wee ones will have only one barring gene or none - boys have bars and girls have none.

I buy eggs from a lady with a line of BBS Plymouth Rocks that have a barring gene behind them. Boys all have headspots at hatch. Girls are all blue - quite handy actually. I can cull at hatch. Keeping only the pullets I want.

But as was said, breeding to white you may resurrect and muddle colors quite badly over time since the genotype behind the white is unknowable.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Autosomal barring is by definition not sex-linked. It is the result of a combination of genes, not teh barring gene. Depending on the E-allele, the males may or may not have the same pattern as the females.