What color would they have been?

[QueenMisha]

I've posted a couple of threads here recently. This was our first year hatching peachicks from the adult pair we bought last Sep, so we have lots of questions. The mom is pure white and dad is pied with not a lot of white.

She laid 6 eggs and 2 hatched. One was white and the other was pied with about equal amounts of color and white evenly splashed across the body.

2 of the eggs died around 10 days, throwing them against a tree in the woods was about all the eggtopsy I did, not a lot to see when they broke.

The other 2 died maybe 2-3 days before hatch, they were completely formed but with unabsorbed yolks. Anyways, the colors were very interesting. Both were almost entirely white, with very small splashes of color on the head and back, nowhere else. Just curious, since I'm hoping the female will produce more than 6 eggs next year and that maybe I'll get a better hatch, what would these have been likely to look like? Would they have grown to the same colors, totally white with color on the head/back?

And it's also interesting to me that they produced 75% pied and 25% white. Is this just a coincidence, the same way you can end up with 9 roos and 1 pullet in a chicken hatch, or is it possible for a white/pied pair to produce offspring skewed towards a particular color, instead of 50/50 whiteied?

 

[KsKingBee]

Chicks go through a lot of color changes as they age. The best example is the Black Shoulder, they hatch out yellow and within a couple of weeks they have colors all over them that don't set until they are at least three years old. White Eye is another example, the number of white eyes will change every year. I have one that had LESS white eyes this year than he did the year before. He might have all white eyes next year, I'll let you know then.