The mystery chick

Well, about 3 weeks ago today, I collected an egg from my bantam pen. I have no idea who laid it, and one hasn't been laid like it again. Today, it hatched. This morning, it looked like it had a yellow head, and then the back "fluff" when it was wet looked greyish color. When I got home and it was dry, I took pictures. Now it looks more yellow all over, but I swear this morning it was light grey! Other important feature: feathered legs.

So in that pen, there are 3 seramas, but this egg was WAY too big to be one of theirs. I have their eggs incubated too, and it isn't theirs, guaranteed. Their eggs are white and this one was brown and too big. So, the other two possibilities are a red bantam mummy or a frizzled grey mummy, and then there is the question of daddy.

So, here is the chick. I am about to post pics of the potential parents. Hang in there!

Chick pic 2
His/her belly is way more yellowish than the back.

chick pic 3

Potential Dad 1

Potential Dad 2

Potential Mummy 1

Potential Mummy #2
(sorry, to me it is Mummy and not Mom because I'm Canadian and my "Mom" is called Mummy, not Mom or Mommy or anything else!)

Claire i see a light color chicken tail in that pic what is that and is it a hen?

Nice line up of the suspects.

Good eye Harmony! That was when they were in with the OEG fawn duckwings for a day, but the roos fought too much so I had to separate them. The egg came from the pen that I put them into, not the OEG pen. So the OEG hen is out of the question.

You are so observant!!!

Dad1 Mummy2.. my guess... but Dad 1.. I see it in the eyes!!

When i see a light chick i look for light parents my guess is the frizzle if it was grey when it hatched.
The mom could have light color genes and passed them on to the chick and cochin frizzle eggs are bigger than OEG eggs and can be Brown/Tan color.

I say mom #1 and dad #2

Harmony - they were purchased as a pair at Jacob's Cave in Missouri. So do you suppose the chick will be frizzle like the mom?

Fran - you are right - he does have Daddy 1 eyes! Maybe Daddy 1 decided to check out Mummy 1 after she arrived. The red pair were in the pen before the other pair arrived.

It could be you will just have to wait and i said daddy #2 and mom #1 because the chick has the chracteristics closest to those by the pics of course.
The roo looks like he has potential light coloring background and so does the hen.

The red hen and roo would certainly throw a red chick not a light one like that i wouldn't think.

I guess by the feathers I will see if it is a frizzle. I think you are probably right Harmony, but I wondered if one of the red couple might have mated with one of the other couple to produce it. They all have feathered feet though. Hard to say without a genetic test!

What a cute chick!!

My uneducated guess is Dad #2 Mummy #1 Even if it doesn't Frizz it will have the gene right? IF those are the parents.. Right?

So cute anyway.. I just love chick feet.. especially fuzzy ones.. LOL

As I understand it, the frizzle gene is dominant, so "carriers" are impossible. If they carry it, they express it. But maybe it's not dominant. That is just what I have read. If it is recessive, then you could be right. Where's Catscan...she knows....

That makes sense..

Claire I'm going to place a guess here and see if my experience is correct from the looks of it's comb i will say thats a roo.
let me know when it gets old enough to tell.
I have known this for awhile with my OEG that if it has a piece of a comb it's a roo and if it's slick it's a hen.

mom and dad 2

Oh Harmony, that would be crummy. I have too many roos! I might have to eat him! Waaaahhhhhh!!!!

Don't panic it's just an experiment i could be wrong.

I think Daddy 2 and Mummy 1 too.

i guess mom 1 and dad 2 ,it sure is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and
i no what mean. i have WAY to many roos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Frizzle is dominant, but I think other genes can affect the feathering, making them more or less frizzled than just the frizzle gene alone. It's not a gene I've delved into much, and am speaking from memory, on the other genes.
Suze