Incubating Surprise - Anyone have chocolate Easter Eggers? What's going on here? chocolate? From White? And a genetics question....🧐

[RememberTheWay]

So I have been hatching out Easter Eggers from two hens and a rooster. I know the hens are from a cross between a white leghorn and an Americana rooster. The rooster I am unsure of his parents. So most of the chicks of been exactly what I expected - yellow down- and feathering in white. I've had a couple hatch that are typical EE down as well. Then their was this little lady in the incubator this morning. Is she actually chocolate? How on earth? Pictured is the rooster who fathered them and the chick in question. I can also post photos of the other chicks and the hens if needed.

My genetics question is about the chocolate gene. I know that the chocolate gene turns all the feathers on a said bird from what would have been black to chocolate, but what about the other features on the bird? Like beak, shanks, feet? Does this gene also change those to chocolate?

The chick looks to have chocolate legs and a chocolate beak as well which is what prompted the question.

Anyways. I have more eggs hatching and even though I got rid of the rooster I'm sure the hens will hold onto his "boys" for at least a little while, so maybe some more will hatch out similar. So far he is about 1 in 12. Fingers crossed another comes out similar.

 

[Barnette]

Interesting. To me it looks like a cross between an Eastern Cuteness and a Chocolate Cupcake.

 

[NagemTX]

There is someone in FL that is working on Chocolate Ameraucana and sells on eBay.

 

[RememberTheWay]

Updating with photos of the other chicks hatched from the same parents

 

[RememberTheWay]

And Updating with photos of the rooster who fathered the chicks (lighter rooster in several photos), and the rooster who fathered the hens who I hatched from (maternal grandfather- the darker rooster(gold neck and grey beard floppy comb) in one photo)