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What is my salmon favorelle cross chick mixed with?!

Kennas_Kritters

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I recently hatched this little cutie. Mom was a salmon favorelle and dad could be any of the roosters pictured. Mom is also pictured. She seemed to hang out with the yellow and black Easter egger roo and the Cochin roos the most but she was around all these guys as she kept escaping her coop! Which do you think is the dad? The chick doesn't have extra toes but they have feathered feet and muffs/beard like mama. Also does anybody know what color it may be?
 

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does anybody know what color it may be?
Quite a few colors of chicks can look about like that at hatch.

I would guess it will have a lot of white or gold with some black (rather than all white, all black, or lots of red), but at this point that is just a guess.

Once it's about half feathered, you should have a much better idea of what feather colors it will have, although they can still change quite a bit as it grows.

I recently hatched this little cutie. Mom was a salmon favorelle and dad could be any of the roosters pictured. Mom is also pictured. She seemed to hang out with the yellow and black Easter egger roo and the Cochin roos the most but she was around all these guys as she kept escaping her coop! Which do you think is the dad? The chick doesn't have extra toes but they have feathered feet and muffs/beard like mama.
From what I see now, just about any of those males could be the father. As the chick grows, it might become more obvious or might always be a bit of a mystery.

The feathered feet and muff/beard could be inherited from the mother, so I have no way to tell whether it also has a father with those traits.

Since the chick does not have extra toes, it most likely has a father with no extra toes.

I can't tell whether the chick's comb is single or pea, but it is not rose or walnut.
If the chick has a single comb, any rooster could be the father, although the single comb ones are a little more likely. If the chick has a pea comb, but the mother has single, then the father must have either a pea comb or walnut comb. (Gentically: rose comb is caused by one gene, pea comb by a different gene, walnut comb by rose & pea together, and single comb by neither of them. Rose and pea are both dominant, so a chick with either of those genes must have a parent that shows them, but a chicken who shows rose or pea comb can still carry the genes that produce single comb.)
 

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