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Short answer: black chicks and blue chicks with various amounts of silver/white leakage or possibly gold/red leakage. Longer answer: The blue gene (Blue and Splash) will affect any feathers that would otherwise be black. The genes for a solid black chicken are dominant over most of the other...

A Rhode Island Red rooster can be a good choice, any other of the black-tailed red chickens (New Hampshire, Production Red, Buckeye) The genes for that color and pattern are mostly recessive ones.

Spangling (as in Hamburgs and Spitzhaubens and Brabanters) requires a combination of several genes. The mottling gene is not involved. http://www.sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page2.html This page has a chart with the genes for several different patterns (spangled, laced, a few others) Try ctrl +F to...

There are large numbers of gold/silver sexlinks that have gold females and heterozygous silver/gold males, and they are easy to distinguish at hatch. Of course the parent stocks have been selected for whatever genes will make that easier, but they do show that some heterozygous males can be easy...

Just blue creams are not going to give you solid lavender birds. But breeding the blue creams to black, then breeding those splits to each other or back to the blue creams, should give you some black-based birds that show the lavender gene (solid lavender birds, except that they will probably...

Brown eggs, darker than Cinnamon Queen eggs but not as dark as Black Copper Maran eggs. I'm having trouble visualizing a "golden" egg. Olive/green eggs are blue eggs with a coating of brown on the outside. Breeding that hen to a Black Copper Marans should give daughters who lay eggs with more...

You should be able to make a reasonable guess from the amount of black leakage (more in heterozygotes I/i+, less or none in homozygotes I/I) As an example, California Whites and Austra Whites are heterozygotes, and pictures can be found on the websites of many hatcheries. A few samples...

There are several versions of the calculator, and it looks like the problem is not affecting all of them. For example, all the ones I checked here seem normal: http://kippenjungle.nl/chickencalculator.html But I don't see any chicken images here, just the ones for foot color and comb type...

Based on the chicks you are getting, I would expect both parents to be blue. Or maybe one blue parent and one black, with the blue chicks ranging in shade from dark to very light indeed. Have you bred either of them with any other chickens in the past? If not, you might try it, as a test to see...

If the father is a pure Black Sumatra, then the chick is not lavender. Lavender is a recessive gene, so the chick can only show that color if it inherits the gene from both parents-- but a pure Black Sumatra will not have the lavender gene. I think the chick is most likely blue. For a chicken...

Mille Fleur should be mottling on gold columbian. I would expect Wheaten at the e-locus. Speckled (like Sussex) has mahogany, and considering the chipmunk-striped chicks I expect they have e+ (wild type e-locus.) Spangled Russian Orloffs are about the same: chipmunk chicks, Mahogany, mottling...

Wyandottes have rose combs, not pea. But regardless of what it is called, her chicks have a good chance of matching her comb type. For the ISA x SLW her comb type would also be rose, and about half her chicks should inherit that, with the other half getting a single comb. Rose combs and pea...

Black Australorp rooster x Silver Laced Wyandotte hen: black chicks, chance of silver leakage as they grow up. Black Australorp rooster x Platinum Sussex hen: probably black chicks, high chance of silver leakage as they grow up. Black Australorp rooster x Welsummer hen: black chicks, chance of...

"Mottled" can mean two different things. It can mean a specific variety that occurs in some chicken breeds, that is black with white tips on the feathers. Your chick is not that kind of mottled, because he has plenty other color on him. Mottled can also mean any chicken that has two copies of...

For his sons, that is correct (assuming the mother of the chicks has dark legs.) Because the gene for dark/light legs is on the Z sex chromosome, his daughters will not carry the gene for dark legs. They will just have one gene for light legs, and one W chromosome from their mother to make them...

If both parents have blue legs, all chicks should have dark legs (blue or green.) At least 3/4 of chicks should have actual blue (not green.) If you get any chicks with green legs, you will know that both parents carry a recessive gene for yellow skin. The genes involved: Light skin is...

A chicken with slate (blue) shanks has the dark skin gene (which does not seem to apply equally to all parts of the chicken. I was careless when I said "dark skin," I should have clarified which parts of the skin were most likely to show it.) Since I see your d'Uccle is black with mottling, the...

If he has light skin, then I don't know what is going on to cause blue earlobes. It doesn't match up with what I know or what I have seen. Hopefully someone else will have a better idea of what is causing it. But you asked about d'Uccles, and I thought they were supposed to have dark skin?

If it is just caused by having white earlobes and dark skin, then yes it will be passed on. I don't think anyone has figured out quite how the genetics of white vs. red earlobes work, but they are definitely inherited in some way (proven by the fact that some breeds have just the one, some...

Probably about the same thing that causes them in Silkies: "white" earlobes on a bird with dark skin. The dark skin sort of shows through the white earlobe. I've also seen green earlobes on some Easter Egger mixes (willow/green skin, white earlobe.)