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No my hen never hatched any white chicks, she never hatched any with white Primaries either. They all had the white throat latch, most had white Alular feathers, and then there were random white feathers here and there, my hen(pictured above) had the strongest sprinkling of white down the back...

So the hen you think may be split to white is a Bronze BS? If so, it will be very difficult. I had a regular BS hen and for many years she was paired with a BS male and all chicks as far as I could tell were plain BS, however most were sold before maturity. Then I moved her in with Fred and...

I believe we were talking about q8's mystery hens. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/941287/cameo-or-peach

Yes if the hens are split to Opal then some of the offspring should also be split to Opal. However I'm not sure if it will be visible or if they will all look Cameo though.

They sure look like Cameo Opals.

The general belief is that hens cannot be split to Purple, Cameo, Peach, or any other sex-linked color. They can be split to Bronze, Opal, Midnight, or any other non-sex-linked color. In humans the male has XY chromosomes and the female has XX chromosomes, it is reversed in birds. The male has...

It is just the sex-linked colors they cannot be split to. Opal is not sex-linked which means the genes for opal are not located on the sex chromosomes. Female Offspring should be Purple split to Opal. At least that is my understanding as it was explained to me.

I agree, at this point both look like they are losing some of the stripes on the wings, this usually means they are female. However this year I had one just like your's and it had very little striping on it's wings, and it ended up being a male. Pictures showing the feathers on their...

The "Best" result depends on what you want. If your goal is to figure out what genes he carries then breed to a white hen and compare the offspring to Arbors post above. If your goal is to try to get a very colorful showy variety of whites and pieds as soon as you can, then I think a pied would...

Hi Hafeez, I will try to explain this, but there are others on this forum who are better educated in the genetics so if I am explaining this incorrectly they will hopefully join the discussion. When a white bird is crossed with a normal colored bird, the colored genes are more dominant and all...

Cannot be 100% sure, but he sounds like he would be a black shoulder split to white. He probably is not pied or carrying pied genes, so the only way to get pied chicks from him is to pair him with a pied hen.

Hello Hafeez, You don't need to post a picture, they can just make it easier for us to figure out what genes a bird is carrying. However even with a picture we can still only give you an educated guess, the white on the neck right below the face is called a "throat latch" this can come from...

Do you have pictures you could post? Many people confuse young black shouldered peacocks for pied peacocks, because young black shouldered males have a lot of white in their juvenile feathers. These are pure black shouldered males at 1 year old, by the time they are 3-4 years they will lose all...