First time hatching, what do you think about crosses?

[RipperRanch]

We have had chickend for about 3 years now and this year is my first time hatching out our own and I'm curious if it is possible to narrow down which chick came from which hen.
We have a flock of 18 and only one rooster a Lavender Orpington. I got twelve eggs in the incubator, 8 seemed viable when candled and so far 6 have successfully hatched (one still breaking out and one with no breaks).
Our hens include -

• Four Olive eggers - clean feet, pea combs
• Two Isa browns
• One Partridge
• One sold to me as an Olive egger that looks identical to a Salmon Favorelle. She has feathered feet
• One Delaware
• One Lavender Orpington
• One Easter Egger (Blue eggs) clean feet
• One Cream Crested Legbar
• Two Dark Brahmas
• Two Turkens
• 1 Mosaic (that is what she was sold to me as but I think she looks like a silver laced wyandotte?)

I know chick 4 is an orpington pure but all other are a mystery! I will attach a picture of each chick and their corresponding egg color. All these eggs were harvested on the same day so they all have a different mother.

Chick 1,2 & 3 all have feathered feet/shanks. Chick 1 has a reddish brown head and black body while the other two are black with white.
Chick 4 is the orpington but I included pics of it anyways and the corresponding egg.
Chick 5 the egg I suspect is from one of our ISA browns but not 100%. Egg was very large and had some wrinkling and one of our ISAs almost always has wrinkling on her eggs.
Chick 6 came from a baby blue egg so mother could be the legbar? Does the spot on the head indicate its a roo? Would it be the same if mother was our easter egger who lays blue eggs? The coloring on this one is cool, lots of brown, black and gray.

Thank you for lending any ideas or thoughts!

chick 1

Chick 2

Chick 3

Orpington baby

Chick 5

Chick 6

Corresponding eggs

 

[DobieLover]

The three easy one are the ones with feathered feet. They came from your SF mix. She is not pure. She does not have a single comb, fully beard/muffs or fully feathered legs.

 

[TexasBlues]

So you know which eggs the chicks came from? The eggs look unique enough to decider the breed, no?

 

[RipperRanch]

So you know which eggs the chicks came from? The eggs look unique enough to decider the breed, no?

Yes the number next to the eggs on the plate correspond with the chick number. So chick 1 came from egg shell 1.

The baby blue egg came either from my legbar or easter egger hen and the olive green egg came from one of my olive eggers.

But - the olive egger that looks like a salmon favorelle I haven't had super long (prob 6 months) and I have never seen her lay so i am guessing she lays green eggs.

 

[RipperRanch]

The three easy one are the ones with feathered feet. They came from your SF mix. She is not pure. She does not have a single comb, fully beard/muffs or fully feathered legs.

The suspect salmon fav girl? She could have only contributed one egg since I collected them all the same day. I'm assuming her egg is the olive green? If she truly is the olive egger that she was sold to me as.
The other two eggs must be from my brahmas if they have feathered feet, yes?

 

[NatJ]

Chick 1,2 & 3 all have feathered feet/shanks. Chick 1 has a reddish brown head and black body while the other two are black with white.

I see that 1 and 2 came from brown eggs, 3 came from a green egg.

It looks like you only have 3 hens with feathered feet, and you collected all the eggs on the same day, so those chicks must come from two Dark Brahmas and the Olive Egger. That would mean 1 and 2 from the Brahmas (brown eggs) and 3 from the Olive Egger (green egg).

Brahmas should have pea combs, so chicks 1 and 2 should have pea combs. The Olive Egger hen in the picture appears to have a pea comb, but chick 3 has a single comb, so the Olive Egger must carry the gene for not-pea comb (single).

I would expect all three of these to grow up black, probably with a bit of leakage of other colors as they get older.

Chick 4 is the orpington but I included pics of it anyways and the corresponding egg.

No mystery there!

Chick 5 the egg I suspect is from one of our ISA browns but not 100%. Egg was very large and had some wrinkling and one of our ISAs almost always has wrinkling on her eggs.

ISA Brown seems like a good guess.

The Lavender Orpington rooster would give the genes to make the chick black all over, plus a recessive lavender gene that doesn't show in the mixed chick. Then an ISA Brown could give the Dominant White gene, which turns black to white. That makes the chick white all over which is what I think I'm seeing in the photo. (The same genes can give a white chick with some black dots, but I'm not noticing dots in this picture.)

Chick 6 came from a baby blue egg so mother could be the legbar? Does the spot on the head indicate its a roo? Would it be the same if mother was our easter egger who lays blue eggs? The coloring on this one is cool, lots of brown, black and gray.

The light spot on the head means the chick has the barring gene. Since the Lavender Orpington rooster does not have barring, the chick must have inherited barring from the mother. That probably points to the Legbar. If the Easter Egger has barring, she could be the mother instead.

Barred hen with a not-barred rooster is a sexlink cross, with only the sons having a light dot on the head. So yes, this chick is a male. It should grow up to be black with white barring, possibly with some leakage of other colors as it gets older.

 

[RipperRanch]

I see that 1 and 2 came from brown eggs, 3 came from a green egg.

It looks like you only have 3 hens with feathered feet, and you collected all the eggs on the same day, so those chicks must come from two Dark Brahmas and the Olive Egger. That would mean 1 and 2 from the Brahmas (brown eggs) and 3 from the Olive Egger (green egg).

Brahmas should have pea combs, so chicks 1 and 2 should have pea combs. The Olive Egger hen in the picture appears to have a pea comb, but chick 3 has a single comb, so the Olive Egger must carry the gene for not-pea comb (single).

I would expect all three of these to grow up black, probably with a bit of leakage of other colors as they get older.


No mystery there!


ISA Brown seems like a good guess.

The Lavender Orpington rooster would give the genes to make the chick black all over, plus a recessive lavender gene that doesn't show in the mixed chick. Then an ISA Brown could give the Dominant White gene, which turns black to white. That makes the chick white all over which is what I think I'm seeing in the photo. (The same genes can give a white chick with some black dots, but I'm not noticing dots in this picture.)


The light spot on the head means the chick has the barring gene. Since the Lavender Orpington rooster does not have barring, the chick must have inherited barring from the mother. That probably points to the Legbar. If the Easter Egger has barring, she could be the mother instead.

Barred hen with a not-barred rooster is a sexlink cross, with only the sons having a light dot on the head. So yes, this chick is a male. It should grow up to be black with white barring, possibly with some leakage of other colors as it gets older.

Thank you for taking the time to explain this!! The ISA thing is so interesting.


The last chick hatched overnight and seems to be sparse of feathers on the neck so I'm thinking a turken cross! I was pretty sure it was a turken egg.

 

[NatJ]

The last chick hatched overnight and seems to be sparse of feathers on the neck so I'm thinking a turken cross! I was pretty sure it was a turken egg.

I think you are probably correct about that.

 

[RipperRanch]

I think you are probably correct about that.

I just went and checked on the chick and it appears to be fully fathered (no naked neck, just looked that way right out of hatch)

Its a dark silver with brown patches around eyes. I will try and get a picture in a little bit.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

We have had chickend for about 3 years now and this year is my first time hatching out our own and I'm curious if it is possible to narrow down which chick came from which hen.
We have a flock of 18 and only one rooster a Lavender Orpington. I got twelve eggs in the incubator, 8 seemed viable when candled and so far 6 have successfully hatched (one still breaking out and one with no breaks).
Our hens include -

• Four Olive eggers - clean feet, pea combs
• Two Isa browns
• One Partridge
• One sold to me as an Olive egger that looks identical to a Salmon Favorelle. She has feathered feet View attachment 4084524
• One Delaware
• One Lavender Orpington
• One Easter Egger (Blue eggs) clean feet
• One Cream Crested Legbar
• Two Dark Brahmas
• Two Turkens
• 1 Mosaic (that is what she was sold to me as but I think she looks like a silver laced wyandotte?) View attachment 4084525

I know chick 4 is an orpington pure but all other are a mystery! I will attach a picture of each chick and their corresponding egg color. All these eggs were harvested on the same day so they all have a different mother.

Chick 1,2 & 3 all have feathered feet/shanks. Chick 1 has a reddish brown head and black body while the other two are black with white.
Chick 4 is the orpington but I included pics of it anyways and the corresponding egg.
Chick 5 the egg I suspect is from one of our ISA browns but not 100%. Egg was very large and had some wrinkling and one of our ISAs almost always has wrinkling on her eggs.
Chick 6 came from a baby blue egg so mother could be the legbar? Does the spot on the head indicate its a roo? Would it be the same if mother was our easter egger who lays blue eggs? The coloring on this one is cool, lots of brown, black and gray.

Thank you for lending any ideas or thoughts!

chick 1
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Chick 2
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Chick 3
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Orpington baby
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Chick 5
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Chick 6
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Corresponding eggs
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Your olive egger isn’t a salmon faverolles, she’s a green queen, which is a faverolles Easter egger mix. The “mosaic” does look like a silver laced Wyandotte.