What would you call this? Silver Cuckoo Marans?

[Forevermost Farms]

Breeding Golden Cuckoo Marans and this batch of eggs got interesting. Could this be Silver genetics that were dormant in the parents?

This is the father

This is the mother.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Silver cuckoo birchen? He's gorgeous whatever it's called.

 

[Forevermost Farms]

He has no color at all except white and black. He does have a sibling with similar markings but a soft golden color on his back

 

[Toon]

Your rooster is what they call 'golden' (S+s+) . He has one gold (s+) and one silver (S+) gene. He's not 100% golden cuckoo (s+s+), but a mix. The silver looking offspring he gives is pure silver cuckoo (S+S+), the female gold cuckoo looking offspring is also pure (s+s+), and the male golden offspring is, like himself, 'golden' (S+s+)
(feel free to ask if anything is unclear

 

[The Moonshiner]

Your rooster is what they call 'golden' (S+s+) . He has one gold (s+) and one silver (S+) gene. He's not 100% golden cuckoo (s+s+), but a mix. The silver looking offspring he gives is pure silver cuckoo (S+S+), the female gold cuckoo looking offspring is also pure (s+s+), and the male golden offspring is, like himself, 'golden' (S+s+)
(feel free to ask if anything is unclear

If the rooster is silver/gold how would he produce a pure silver cockerel when bred to a gold hen?
That cross could produce silver pullets but not pure silver cockerels.

 

[Toon]

If the rooster is silver/gold how would he produce a pure silver cockerel when bred to a gold hen?
That cross could produce silver pullets but not pure silver cockerels.

Whoops my bad, he won't produce any silver cuckoo roosters, he will, on the other side, produce gold cuckoo roosters, the difference between the S+s+ and s+s+ roosters may prove hard to see.

 

[Toon]

Whoops my bad, he won't produce any silver cuckoo roosters, he will, on the other side, produce gold cuckoo roosters, the difference between the S+s+ and s+s+ roosters may prove hard to see.

Wait.. I just re-read that. Doesn't make sense. I'd say there's some dodgy other genes in your rooster or your hen that aren't supposed to be there, but can't know for sure. Sorry this is beyond my genetics knowledge...