Who's the Daddy?

[RWise]

None of your chicks appear to be sired by a Buff Orpington rooster.

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I have 2 Roos, the BO, and a Red Ameraucana, both almost a year old
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I've hatched Buff Orpington/Barred Rock cross chicks. Females were blackish with gold faces. Males were blackish with silver faces. None of your black chicks look like this cross (from what I can see).

I've hatched Rhode Island Red/Barred Rock cross chicks. They looked just like your black chicks.

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I think most of the blacks are from the BR and Big Red, 2 without the white splash on the back of their head are from a Blue (EE) Ameraucana and Big Red, she would have nothing to do with Dusty (the BO)
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I hatched one Rhode Island Red/Buff Orpington cross chick. She was a very light reddish buff as a chick, I could easily tell her apart from the purebred Rhode Island Red chicks that I hatched at the same time. She matured to be an orangey buff color with black tail feathers.

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I think the 2 orange chicks may be Dusty's only chicks, both were from a RIR and she would have nothing to do with Big Red.
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The chipmunk colored chick looks like an Easter Egger crossed with something that had feathered legs. Feathered legs is a dominant trait, so at least one of his parents had feathered legs (a bird wouldn't carry the feather legged gene unless it actually had feathered legs itself, because it is a dominant gene and so would express itself in the bird).

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This is the surprise, none of my hens have feathers on their legs, nor do my Roo's. The gal I got them from had/has a silky/frizzle bantam Rio. Must have been some left over DNA
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The only one I question is the chocolatey/mocha colored one, second from the front. Do you have a better picture of this one?

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This one is from a RIR and I think Big Red, I can get a better pic of him after while

Big Red is the dominant Roo, he out weights Dusty by a lot.
EDIT: Here is a pic (from the internet) like the bird she has, I think he is the daddy and the RIR pullet is the momma! None of the early eggs from the BR hatched, which is the other bird from her. This should be interesting, this little yellow thing is now bigger than all the others, even the ones from Sis's jumbo+ eggs. And my Gal, who was totally against chicks this time of year, has fallen totally in love! Anyway he looks like this:

 

[farmerChef]

That is a silkie, they have feathered legs

 

[RWise]

I think the silkie is the daddy of the yellow chick, the girl I got a couple of hens from said "it was the funniest thing to watch the little guy do his job" and "he had to grab her mid back". I have no birds with feathers on their legs for this to have came from, hen or rooster, had to be left overs,,,,

 

[RWise]

The only one I question is the chocolatey/mocha colored one, second from the front. Do you have a better picture of this one?

I am slow but I get there,,,, this little guy? I think he is RIR (mom) and Red Ameraucana. He acts just like his dad! Got to get more batteries for the camera now,,,

 

[hdowden]

I think the silkie is the daddy of the yellow chick, the girl I got a couple of hens from said "it was the funniest thing to watch the little guy do his job" and "he had to grab her mid back". I have no birds with feathers on their legs for this to have came from, hen or rooster, had to be left overs,,,,

if it is a first generation silkie mix you would know by a small crest, black skin, 5 toes, and slightly feathered legs (they wont be as thick as a pure breed feather legged breed)...they may or may not have a beard depending on if the bird had a beard or not.

 

[RWise]

Now that this one is feathering out more, maybe the momma is the bared rock, with the silkie dad,,,,
New pic:


To me it looks as there is a place for the forth toe, but not there.



Debbie (in the pic) luvs this one, I hope it is a pullet/hen, life would be good. (I so dont need another Roo)
I also think this one is from the barred rock and Red Ameraucana Roo, that did not go sex lick,,,,,,

 

[RWise]

What are beards?

I'll see if my boys will let me get a good pic, they cab be camera shy,,,,,

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

ashl768 beards are the feathers on the chin and cheek area.

 

[Cowgirl71]

I am slow but I get there,,,, this little guy? I think he is RIR (mom) and Red Ameraucana. He acts just like his dad! Got to get more batteries for the camera now,,,

Sorry! Somehow I missed your post...

My guess is that this chick is from your red Ameraucana rooster and either an Ameraucana or Rhode Island Red hen. It should be pretty easy to tell which breed it's mother was when it's mature. If it were from a Barred Rock hen it would be colored like your black chicks or colored like the Buff Orpington/Barred Rock cross chicks I described earlier.

 

[RWise]

Sorry! Somehow I missed your post...

My guess is that this chick is from your red Ameraucana rooster and either an Ameraucana or Rhode Island Red hen. It should be pretty easy to tell which breed it's mother was when it's mature. If it were from a Barred Rock hen it would be colored like your black chicks or colored like the Buff Orpington/Barred Rock cross chicks I described earlier.

No problem, I aint no spring chicken and lose posts myself! Yes Big Red is the Dad, the mom is either a RIR or the BR, time will tell, but my first thought was the RIR. I am hoping he keeps the chocolate color as well.My blue girls chicks are dark almost black, but blue feathers are starting to show on them, only 2 hatched from her and they look almost identical. (what would red roo and blue hen make?)

And the flock knows I have chicks, (they can hear them) since the hatch they come and stand on the steps, some even come to the door (its open even in cold weather, toss another log in the fire!!). The blue Ameraucana is wanting to hide her nest (and did until I found it), she may be wanting to set,,,, if the weather was better I would let her.