Who’s My Mommy? The Sequel

[Oncoming Storm]

Guys! We’re back at three and a halfish weeks old. What’re we thinking on possible parents and color? I can get a better head shot. He was being ornery when I took this, so it was all I could get at the time.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Guys! We’re back at three and a halfish weeks old. What’re we thinking on possible parents and color? I can get a better head shot. He was being ornery when I took this, so it was all I could get at the time.

He looks a lot like a splash, which wouldn’t be possible unless his father was blue or splash. Can you post pictures of the possible fathers?

 

[Oncoming Storm]

He looks a lot like a splash, which wouldn’t be possible unless his father was blue or splash. Can you post pictures of the possible fathers?

None of my roosters are blue or splash. I have two blue hens but that’s it.

I also have a black no bow tie NN that I don’t have a pic of.

This is the silkie mix/Rhode Island Red cross

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

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

I agree that this is very strange... I also entirely agree on all your statements about bowties ability to produce feathered-neck offspring

 

[The Kooky Kiwi]

Looks more lavender to me than blue.. and though that seems unlikely given that you have no visually lavender birds.. remember lavender can pass unseen as a single gene so it's definitely possible that some of your mixed heritage birds have a sneaky gene in there - and the probability gods decided they should merge together for this chick.

It's as plausible as every other theory above

 

[Oncoming Storm]

We’re back and Pickle is rocking out at five and a half weeks old. He’s also very obviously a HE. Is that a thing that home bred chicks tend to rooster up quick? Because almost all of mine have. He has a nice little poof on his head now which is interesting. I think this means that, combined with his color, the olive egger is the mum. Thoughts?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

The silkie/RIR also has a bit of a poof. Could this coloring could’ve come from a silkie gene?

Blue/splash isn’t recessive, so if it isn’t there, it isn’t there. Though silkies of different varieties are often mixed together, so having some silkie in his background makes the chance of having a recessive lavender gene a bit more likely.

 

[Oncoming Storm]

At eight weeks I’ve noticed some darkening feathers around his face and back. Ideas? Also he has bushy eyebrows now.

 

[The Kooky Kiwi]

The feathers on his back look like they’re coming in black. Is that common for blues?

Sure is! In fact it's one of the ways I would distinguish a blue apart from a lavender

Your earlier comment about crest - a crest can vary in size and location on the face and often the type and size of comb can influence this.

Now that he's showing reliable signs of being blue and crested - does this help you narrow down his parentage??

Here's one of my blue chicks at approx 16 weeks.. to show the potential difference in blue shades. Note his crest is quite a ways back on his crown.




And here's one of my other blue chicks that grew in a proper mop of a crest! Very forward on the head.



A picture of my blue rooster - showing the charcoal (near black) feathers. He also has the "bushy eyebrows"

 

[Oncoming Storm]

What was his final breeding combination?? I have a 2 chicks who are about 12weeks old with similar colours and body structure…

It’s kind of been decided that the sapphire gem is the mom and the silkie mix/RIR is the dad.