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Awesome, thank you. I will be watching for barring. These are my first male chicks other than the “pure” Silked EE roo. So far my Welsummer offspring are keeping their orange shank color while the other is dark.

Thank you! Would the barring be present at hatch or would that develop as the feathers grow in?

The first is the rooster and the hen of his kind ( with their offspring from last fall) and the Welsummer, and the Blue Cuckoo Maran. So far all Welsummer chicks have the same dark marking but only ones had dark shanks, the others have orange. The Blue cuckoos all have dark shanks (as I...

Okay I am a little bit confused. I have one rooster and he is a Silked EE. I have a variety of hens, but I hatched chicks from the Blue Cuckoo Maran, Welsummer, Delaware, and another Silked EE. I was sure that the black skin would mean daughters, but I thought there would also be other...