I do not see any barring on those chicks.I don't think what I'm seeing is barring though, not on the one who hatched from the barred hen.
So if you are positive that one came from the barred mother, then yes that one must be a female.
Barring is still barring, whether you have an Easter Egger in the mix or not.That is super cool!! I do love EEs, I guess I just hadn't thought about how much that could change the outcomes! Does that mean that EE colors can overcome the barring gene too, then? Or does that mean I've got a little hen there, since she doesn't have the barring and I'd expect it on a potential roo? Or maybe if it is a roo, does that mean the barring will show up later over top of whatever color it turns out as?
Barring should be visible in the feathers by now, if the chick has the barring gene.
So if the mother was barred and the father was not, a barred chick is male and a chick with no barring is female.
But if there is any chance of a chick having different parents, that could mean no chance of sexing them. A barred rooster will produce sons and daughters with barring. A hen with no barring, when mated with a rooster who has no barring, will produce sons and daughters with no barring.
If you cross a male with dark feet (slate/blue or willow/green) with a hen who has light feet (white or yellow), you get daughters with dark feet and sons with light feet.My boy there is some kind of Araucana/EE mutt... his feet are slate (or blueish? I'm not sure how to word it, and the hen's feet are yellow with a bluish overlay).
...[the chick] also has pink feet and I was reading somewhere about shank color and how it can be connected to sexing but I'm still not totally sure I understand.
But there are several things that can make it not work quite right:
--some chicks with "dark feet" actually hatch with feet that look light, and the dark color takes several weeks to be evident.
--the foot color can be affected by some of the genes for feather color, so "dark" feet may look light, or "light" feet may look dark.
If all hens had light feet, and the father has dark feet, then what you are noticing of the feet is probably a good guide to sex of the chicks: light foot male, dark foot female.Currently since the two chicks have separate moms I can only guess, but the Brahma chick (the suspected boy) has slower feather growth than the other and his wings are a different shape. His chipmunk pattern is different also, not as strong on the head and his feet are remaining yellow while the other one's feet are starting to darken (the dad has dark feet n the mom doesn't).
The one I think is a girl is from a Cuckoo Maran's egg -- and so I don't have any boys from that hen to compare her to yet, but I will be trying that cross too because I want to know if the boys will be barred at all.
There is a chance of feather-sexable chicks from the Brahma hen. If the mother has the slow feathering gene (quite likely for a Brahma) and if the father is fast-feathering, then sons will feather slowly (like your slow-feathering chick that is probably a Brahma-mix), and daughters will feather quickly.
If your rooster is fast-feathering, then breeding him with fast-feathering hens will produce chicks that are all fast-feathering, males and females alike. So they would not be sexable by feathering speed.
Does this mean that you do have other roosters that could be the father?My boy there is some kind of Araucana/EE mutt...But the baby there is white! I need to get better pictures of him, but the reason I know who his parents are is because only the boy there (Monkey) had that chipmunk pattern as a baby and I know all the hens by their eggs so I know who laid the egg he came out of.
It is sometimes possible to get chipmunk-striped chicks even when neither parent showed that as a chick.
So if you are trying to figure out the genetics of the chickens in your flock, you should probably double-check all the possible parents of the chicks. That would include other roosters, and a double-check on which other hens could possibly have laid the eggs, followed by checking what traits you can tell of the chicks and their parents (things like comb type, foot feathering, foot color, muff/beard or crest or extra toes, and so forth. The genes for all of those are fairly well understood, so they can be used to check parentage. For example, two parents with single combs will produce chicks with single combs. Chicks with other comb types must have at least one parent that does not have a single comb.)