Who’s My Mommy? The Sequel

[Oncoming Storm]

I’m back with another mystery chick! This one hatched (rather unexpectedly if you saw either of my threads about it) from my incubator one week ago. I literally just grabbed a random egg so I have no idea who’s mom (or dad). Also, he looks like a lavender???? His baby fluff is outright shiny silver but his adult feathers coming in are a very light grey which from what I read is what counts as lavender? He has multicolored legs (black legs with pinkish feet and toes). From what little comb he has it looks like a straight comb. He hatched out of a lightish brown egg (I can attach a picture if needed)

currently the hens I have are an Austrolorp (pardon the spelling), Austrolorp/NN, buff Turken, Isa brown, Saphire olive egger, white leghorn, barred rock, a large blue possible jersey giant mix (I may have forgotten someone so one might get added)
Roosters- black NN, two red NN, and a silver Columbian genetic nightmare silkie mix/RIR
Any thoughts?

 

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Does the Sapphire Olive Egger lay olive eggs?
Because you said this chick hatched from a light brown egg.

I think this means the blue giant mix must be the mother.

No the olive egger doesn’t lay olive eggs

 

[Oncoming Storm]

lol then I have no idea... I still think maybe the silkie cross..,

I did feel kind of a silkie-ish vibe when he fully dried off. I’m just not sure that it would show up so much with the cross only having 1/4 silkie to begin with.

 

[NatJ]

So that limits it to the sapphire olive egger and the blue giant mix.

Does the Sapphire Olive Egger lay olive eggs?
Because you said this chick hatched from a light brown egg.

I think this means the blue giant mix must be the mother.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Can you compare the tail to those who think may be the parents? It looks like a EE tail to me or an olive egg tail... they seem to have very distinctive tails I’ve found...

also there’s way to much fluff on that neck for it to be a NN so what are the other possibilities

Not entirely true, a naked neck with only one copy of the gene (usually sporting a large bowtie) will not pass on the naked neck to 50% of their offspring.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

None of my roosters are blue or splash. I have two blue hens but that’s it.
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I also have a black no bow tie NN that I don’t have a pic of.
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This is the silkie mix/Rhode Island Red cross

Strange. I’m going to go with “very light blue” for now.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I will say that the silkie mix/RIR cross has a confirmed baby and, like him, has the smallest amount of fluff on its legs and looks very similar to the mix when he was a chick. I mean genetics vary, but this seems like a large variance.
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This is the silkie mix/RIR as a day old
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Confirmed offspring of said rooster.
I’m not sure. Bean, the rooster in question, has so many colors and patterns, I find it a little unlikely for him, even combined with a solid colored hen, to have a completely solid chick.

It’s not impossible. Black (and its dilution, blue) is a very dominant color. Your mixed rooster has a messy columbian color with a lot of leakage. I’d expect his offspring with a solid black/blue hen to be black/blue with leakage. Keep in mind that your chick is still young, so the leakage could come in later.

 

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Hey, I’m back! I thought I’d give some updated pictures of Pickle since he’s almost seven months old. I think he turned out lovely. He reminds me a lot of my rooster Bean by his build. What do you think?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Well you didn't name any lavender birds and tbe chick would have to get a lavender gene from both parents o be lavender.
I'd say it's blue so one parent was blue. Besides that its a mystery I don't want to try to untangle.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Yes but the op has other threads of similar nature where the trait was passed on.. this leads to the thought that by looking at the feathers that the father could be the silkie... and by the colour of the chick I would suggest that the mother is the blue mix...

BUT... that is only going on previous threads and photos that were posted on these threads... believe me when I say I’m no expert or experienced chicken keeper I’m still learning myself.... I’m just going by what has been provided

I’m not saying a naked neck is the father, but at this point there’s an equally likely chance. The OP has three NN roosters, one of which does have a full bowtie.