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The brown chick is one week old today. The bigger yellow one will be one week old tomorrow, and the smaller yellow one that has tiny black spots will be one week old on Sunday. If you don’t count all the clear polish eggs I had set in this batch, then I got 100% hatch rate from my 3 fertile ones! 
Because of the small black spots (the bigger yellow one has one spot on its head) I’m pretty sure the father of those two has to be my dominant white Easter Egger. Single factor dominant white on a black based bird will make this kind of down color. The thing is, none of the possible mothers in that pen can make a black based bird.
Perhaps that means that the rooster is black based, underneath his double factor dominant white. He’s a really snowy white bird with pale cream shoulder patches, so I had thought he was a red-based or wild type bird.
The brown chick came from a different pen. It’s father must be a speckled sussex, and since it doesn’t have a polish topknot, it’s mother must be an Isabella Leghorn. So I expect it will grow up to look like a chunky brown leghorn.
Because of the small black spots (the bigger yellow one has one spot on its head) I’m pretty sure the father of those two has to be my dominant white Easter Egger. Single factor dominant white on a black based bird will make this kind of down color. The thing is, none of the possible mothers in that pen can make a black based bird.
Perhaps that means that the rooster is black based, underneath his double factor dominant white. He’s a really snowy white bird with pale cream shoulder patches, so I had thought he was a red-based or wild type bird.The brown chick came from a different pen. It’s father must be a speckled sussex, and since it doesn’t have a polish topknot, it’s mother must be an Isabella Leghorn. So I expect it will grow up to look like a chunky brown leghorn.
