What color is this

[Jesse7583]

So I have a mixed hen and she hatched this roo last spring and I have no idea what this color is called

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Pretty!

 

[ve]

The rooster's color is Birchen. Most probably not pure for it ( this means he has only one copy of the Birchen gen). Birchen is dominant gen, so 50 % of his babies will carry and show it. He has some gold tint on his silver feathers, so he is not pure Silver. Most probably his mother was Birchen color also.

 

[Jesse7583]

The rooster's color is Birchen. Most probably not pure for it ( this means he has only one copy of the Birchen gen). Birchen is dominant gen, so 50 % of his babies will carry and show it. He has some gold tint on his silver feathers, so he is not pure Silver. Most probably his mother was Birchen color also.

Cool thanks his mom is a solid black hen but she almost always has a different colored chick every egg I hatch it’s so weird I don’t know what she is but she has some pretty babies

 

[pennyJo1960]

Cool thanks his mom is a solid black hen but she almost always has a different colored chick every egg I hatch it’s so weird I don’t know what she is but she has some pretty babies

Did you buy eggs or do you have cockerel

 

[Jesse7583]

Did you buy eggs or do you have cockerel

I have the mom and dad to this boy but I bought the mom in 2017 from some guy that didn’t know what she was

 

[pennyJo1960]

Post a photo of Mom the hen please

 

[Jesse7583]

Post a photo of Mom the hen please

Mom and dad

He is and Cochin sexlink mix

 

[The Moonshiner]

He's a mix of color/patterns.
By appearance alone he does look birchen and carries gold and silver but he could very well be something else.
I've hatched birds that were not birchen but because of the mixed pattern and leakage they appear very birchen like.
There is no way to say he will throw a certain percentage of chicks like himself. He has other genes so it would be hard to say which ones he would pass to his offspring. Also whatever he is bred to would contribute just as many genes to the offspring so depending what genes they have would influence the offsprings pattern.
I'd expect lots of different colored offspring from him depending what he's bred to.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Have to agree with moonshine on this I have a pair of boys one is lavender ameracauna the other is a black copper marans the first is my wild card I have easter egger and barred rock have three eggs 2 green one blue under my silky right now did this at halloween three hatched all where cockerel