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Males are more likely to get red in their shoulders, females are more likely to get it in their breast, but some males do get it in the breast as well. At present, I would not count on that red telling anything about whether it's a male or a female.

I suppose some of the light "blues" might actually be splash. I don't have much direct experience with the black/blue/splash set of colors, so I didn't think much about whether you were correct in sorting blue from splash. Hopefully the matter will become more clear as they grow.

Probably just a coincidence. I've seen photos from other flocks, where blues hatch in a variety of shades from very light to very dark, with just one rooster and a few hens. Penny would be the crele-colored hen, right? Yes, that chick would be a male. As long as you are sure of the mother...

The other thread is a bit patchy, sometimes it gets lots of responses and sometimes not many (probably depends on who is how busy at what time.) Yes, now that we know he is not the father, it doesn't matter as much. Yellow skin is recessive to white skin (usually visible on the soles of the...

Well, I guess that settles WHICH rooster is causing the puzzle :)

You say he can't be "black" But what I'm wondering: is he "black" (=not blue) while having chocolate or some other dilution gene affecting his color such that he looks similar to blue. If he has been producing blue chicks from hens that do not have the blue gene, then that would presumably...

A splash hen should never produce black babies, so that part is working as expected. If the hen is splash and the rooster is blue, I would expect you to get even numbers of blue chicks and splash chicks (because the splash hen gives a blue gene to every chick, and a blue rooster gives a blue...

If the mother is barred and the father is not, then a barred chick must be a male. So yes, the headspot would mean the chick is definitely male, if none of the possible fathers have barring. If the chicks have crests, and their mother does not, then the father must be crested. I'm glad to hear...

That makes sense. I don't have a definite answer to any of those points, because I see how each can seem to point to an Ameraucana father but each one could still happen in a chick from the Polish rooster. So I'm like you for now, not too sure either way.

I probably should have thought to ask this sooner: What makes you think the chick looks like the Ameraucana instead of the Polish?

If it looks like a single comb with a second one growing from it, that may mean the Polish is the father after all :)

Hmm. Definitely interesting. Yes, the Polish does have a beard. I see it pretty clearly in those photos. So a bearded chick could come from either parent. But a crested chick would still have to come from the Polish father. Unfortunately I don't know either about the brownish appearance. I...

I would let it grow for a while before being sure of that, but I am inclined to agree with you about who the likely father is. If the chick grows a crest on the head, you will know the father was the Polish. But if the chick grows a beard (which it looks like it probably will), and the...

Chick appearance: Probably crest and v-comb on all chicks. The Splash Marans hen should produce blue and splash chicks. The Crele Penedesenca hen should produce chicks with some pattern of gold & black or gold & blue, but I'm not sure exactly what pattern that will be. Sons should have white...