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Are you sure that a muffed chicken isn’t actually one of the parents? Do you have pictures of the parents and the chick?

Silkies are a breed that can have muffs. Though maybe what you’re seeing is actually just chick down? Or the silkie bantam has a muff it’s just very small.

You’d have to keep breeding until you think you have enough of a population without the mottling gene. Then take each of your breeders and cross them with a mottled chicken to see if they’re carriers. Right now you know all your breeders are carriers, so doing that wouldn’t help, but in the...

Probably, since all the chicks seem to be carriers

Yes, both parents have to carry it. So breeding a carrier to a carrier has a 1/4 chance of making mottled chicks. And breeding a carrier to one with visible mottling gives you a 1/2 chance at mottled chicks. The rooster definitely carries mottling if he’s produced chicks with two copies of the...

It could if you hatch enough chicks. You could also breed the parents to a chicken with two copies of the mottling gene.

It’s possible only one of the Japanese bantam parents was carrying mottling, and the chicks are splits.

I agree that she’s heterozygous dominant white (aka paint) instead of splash. She will likely have either black offspring (possibly with leakage) or white offspring with leakage.

Ah, so you can’t get something like a silver mille fleur booted bantam to breed in?

You can get rid of gold leakage on a white bird by breeding in the silver gene, since silver (white) leakage won’t show up

Depending on what hen he’s bred to, yes

The gold/red was actually from the rooster, all chickens are either silver or gold (and roosters can be both), so he must have passed down the gold gene, turning the laced pattern from silver to red. I believe white jersey giants are recessive white, so they can produce solid white chicks (if...

They would also be all black, carrying recessive lavender

Assuming your novogen has white tail feathers: half of the offspring would be white with red leakage and the other half would be red with some black patterning. They would all be barred. I don’t believe they’d be autosexing.

There is a difference in type between show quality of both breeds, but hatchery BRs and hatchery Dominiques have basically the same type.

@drangle the buff is turned to silver because the blue australorp father probably has the silver gene.

The chick could definitely be a blue australorp x buff orpington

Your hen looks like she could be a blue lavender

Well, blue lavenders are pretty hard to tell from light blues or splashes, and I imagine they could be pretty hard to tell from lighter mauves, khakis, etc.

I agree that it would probably look somewhere between a mauve and a blue lavender. Mauve:(not my pic) Blue lavender: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/lavender-blue-and-lavender-splash-anyone-know-what-they-look-like.625625/post-8371225