Wondering where the yellow came from?

[raininonme]

Hello,
Please be kind as this is all new and my first hatch. I was wondering where the yellow in this chick may have come from? I was expecting a red base. I'm assuming I am missing something glaringly obvious, haha! I will attach photos of the Rhode Island Red Hens (the day I rescued them from a rough life) and my blue Barnevelder Rooster(I think he qualifies as a splash? Laced?). I have a photo of their chick in the incubator and a few of the chick today. The chick hatched March 19th, so 11 days old. Thank you

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

How long did you have the hens before you introduced the roo? I've read that hens can save sperm for up to 3 weeks I believe? So it could have come from prior?

 

[raininonme]

How long did you have the hens before you introduced the roo? I've read that hens can save sperm for up to 3 weeks I believe? So it could have come from prior?

I got them in November and had them without a rooster to get settled. I believe I put the Blue Rooster in there in Late December/Early January. That is probably way too long to be from their last home?

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

I got them in November and had them without a rooster to get settled. I believe I put the Blue Rooster in there in Late December/Early January. That is probably way too long to be from their last home?

Probably. I'm gonna say something will come with a one of them had a different gene(or whatever) and it mixed just right.

Example : Oo x Oo = Oo, Oo, OO, oo

I'm interested to see who has what to else to say : )

 

[AinaWGSD]

Barnevelders have single combs, your rooster has a rose comb so he's not a barnevelder (could be a mix, but more likely a wyandotte mix). He looks blue to me, not splash. He also looks like he might be silver split for gold.

 

[raininonme]

Barnevelders have single combs, your rooster has a rose comb so he's not a barnevelder (could be a mix, but more likely a wyandotte mix). He looks blue to me, not splash. He also looks like he might be silver split for gold.

Oh that's interesting. So my gold laced Barnevelder's are likely Barnevelder and what were sold as the "blue Barnevelder" are likely some sort of a maybe Barnevelder mix with Wyandotte? One turned out to be a silver hen and one a blue rooster. Would Wyandotte possibly explain the yellow in the chick? I just realized the Silver has a Rose comb too.

 

[AinaWGSD]

The silver laced straight up looks like a wyandotte to me. Did your birds come from a hatchery/feed store or a private individual?

 

[raininonme]

From a private seller. She had said blue and there was no talk of silver so that one may have been a whoopsie. If the silver is an obvious Wyandotte that would make it highly likely the rooster has Wyandotte just like you suspected.

 

[Amer]

The Wyandotte rooster is heterozygous for Gold and Silver and he also has Mahogany.
So I'd call him a blue laced red goldxsilver. A mouthful but that's what he is.
The reason why the chick is white is it inherited the silver from it's father. It's a red silver columbian.

 

[Amer]

The Wyandotte is probably a cross of a blue laced red and silver laced Wyandotte.