What colour will the chick be? Closest answer gets a drawing of their chicken!!

[faithsbrood]

Hi everyone,

We had a broody hen secretly incubate an egg which he believe belongs to one of our light Sussex hens, with the dad being our blue partridge* pekin cockerel. It’s currently hatching right now so I thought I’d do a little competition… guess the colour
I’ll attach pictures of the hen and cockerel and you guys can reply with an image of a chick (or adult chicken) that you think the chick will end up looking like. Or, if you’d like, you could use a template and instead manually create a potential offspring colouration.
I’ll make a wee drawing of one of your hens if you come closest to what colour the chick is.
Good luck!!

*I THINK the cockerel is blue partridge… feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. He’s a bit of a mutt himself.

 

[OneLostHen]

Light grey, yellow legs, muted chipmunk pattern

 

[OneLostHen]

Do I win by default?

 

[Beau plus penny]

wait no let me guess

 

[Beau plus penny]

Hi everyone,

We had a broody hen secretly incubate an egg which he believe belongs to one of our light Sussex hens, with the dad being our blue partridge* pekin cockerel. It’s currently hatching right now so I thought I’d do a little competition… guess the colour
I’ll attach pictures of the hen and cockerel and you guys can reply with an image of a chick (or adult chicken) that you think the chick will end up looking like. Or, if you’d like, you could use a template and instead manually create a potential offspring colouration.
I’ll make a wee drawing of one of your hens if you come closest to what colour the chick is.
Good luck!!

*I THINK the cockerel is blue partridge… feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. He’s a bit of a mutt himself.View attachment 4229300

i personally think it will have a kind of stained looking appearance

i think it will have a mixture of light buff color from the partridge gene and blue but a more muted color kind of like this

pls let me know how i did

 

[faithsbrood]

The wee guy actually turned out to be a dark chipmunk colour! Super cute, dad’s genes are clearly running strong (it’s even got an extra toe from all those silkie genes)
I’ll let you both win because you guys participated hahahah
Feel free to comment a pic of one of your chooks and I’ll make a wee drawing for you both - can’t guarantee they’ll be done super quickly as I’m currently bashing out an art final!

 

[ChickenChick46]

Gosh it's so cute!! I didn't see this earlier or I'd have participated, lol.

 

[Beau plus penny]

The wee guy actually turned out to be a dark chipmunk colour! Super cute, dad’s genes are clearly running strong (it’s even got an extra toe from all those silkie genes)
I’ll let you both win because you guys participated hahahah
Feel free to comment a pic of one of your chooks and I’ll make a wee drawing for you both - can’t guarantee they’ll be done super quickly as I’m currently bashing out an art final!

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is it just me or does this little one have abit of like chocolate milk kind of tint on the top of the body

 

[Beau plus penny]

i just had to draw this little munchkin because its so stinkin cute do it have a name yet

 

[faithsbrood]

i just had to draw this little munchkin because its so stinkin cute do it have a name yet

AWWWWW these are adorable!!! This has absolutely made my day omg currently the name is haymitch!! Although if it’s a pulley it’ll turn into a hattie or an effie - not sure yet. I’ve heard that the dark chipmunk pattern and pronounced back stripes can hint at it being a female (although that may only be autosexing breeds) for now, it’s a waiting game xx