What will my chicks look like?

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I'm putting some eggs in the incubator tomorrow and was wondering what they may look like when they hatch! The dad is a mix between a barred Plymouth Rock and most likely a white orpington. His dad was a barred rock and he looks just like him. The possible moms are a brown leghorn, silver laced wyandotte, black australorp, black australorp/silver laced wyandotte (have black feathers with rose combs) , easter eggers ( one is pure white and the other is golden brown), and white orpingtons. Has anyone had any of these combinations and what did they look like? The roosters seem to contribute the feather coloration from the chicks I've had experience with.
 
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Roosters don't contribute coloration much more than hens do, the reason your rooster is black barred like his father is because black and barred are both caused by dominant genes.
Coule you please post a picture of the crossbred rooster?
 
Here’s my boy. He’s an angel. Unfortunately he lost part of his comb and some toes from frostbite last year 😢 Normally he would have a single comb
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Here’s my boy. He’s an angel. Unfortunately he lost part of his comb and some toes from frostbite last year 😢 Normally he would have a single combView attachment 4111286
I thought I'd be able to tell if he has one copy of barring or two but he's right there in the middle.
Most of his chicks will probably be black barred like himself, or just black. Some of his sons will probably have leakage, depending on the mother.
The white Easter Egger may actually produce some white offspring. Maybe she's dominant white or splash but I'm assuming recessive white is more likely to get you pure white in a mixed breeding situation so I think they would produce mostly black barred offspring but with a 25 percent chance of white offspring.
The hens with rose combs will produce 50-100% rose-combed offspring depending on if they carry the recessive single combed gene.
Pea combs and beards are the same... 50-100% chance of pea combs and beards depending on if they carry single combs or non-bearded genes.
 

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