Who's your daddy?

[ChimkinNug]

Fellow chicken enthusiasts,

Who wants to play a rousing game of "Who's your daddy?!"?

We have an eclectic flock of dinosaurs, and one of our hens hatched out our farm's very first homegrown chick three days ago (and then promptly abandoned her motherly duties, so we are brooding said chick).

The hen is a Whiting True Blue. There are two potential roosters - a Lavender Orpington and a Whiting True Blue. (Pictures provided)

Any idea who the sire is based on the pictures/information provided? Time will certainly tell, but it's killing us to know.

Thanks for tackling this puzzle.

~Nug

 

[The Moonshiner]

Rooster 2

 

[ChimkinNug]

Rooster 2

Do we have a 50% chance of this chick being blue barred, assuming Rooster 2 is the sire? (I don't know if that roo is homo or heterozygous for barring.)

 

[The Moonshiner]

Do we have a 50% chance of this chick being blue barred, assuming Rooster 2 is the sire? (I don't know if that roo is homo or heterozygous for barring.)

I would agree with that. Except the assuming part

 

[Ladybird CA]

If I remember right, lavender x a colour that is not lavender is black and the chick doesn’t look black, at least not fully so it would be #2.

 

[The Moonshiner]

The hen and rooster 2 are Whiting True Blue. They seem to be able to have some variations in some of their characteristics.
Rooster 1 is an Orpington. They're an APA breed so characteristics are more set in stone.
Orpingtons have white skin/shanks and white is dominant to yellow. Any chick from a pure Orpington would not have yellow shanks.
That chick appears to have yellow. Does it?
That's what I went by.

 

[ChimkinNug]

The hen and rooster 2 are Whiting True Blue. They seem to be able to have some variations in some of their characteristics.
Rooster 1 is an Orpington. They're an APA breed so characteristics are more set in stone.
Orpingtons have white skin/shanks and white is dominant to yellow. Any chick from a pure Orpington would not have yellow shanks.
That chick appears to have yellow. Does it?
That's what I went by.

Thanks for the details. The shank and beak color were making us lean toward Rooster 2, but I don't know much about color genetics in skin, shanks, beaks, etc. I have focused too much on learning feather genetics, and it backfired here because the chick would be blue with either crossing.

~Nug