Dark Cornish are wheaten at the e locus, and the chicks that were yellow, dark stripes, and light colored shanks sound exactly like wheaten based chicks - mixed with something else.
Thank you for that information Mike.
The oldest striped chick is now feathering gray with some black or dark gray patterning and white tips on its first feathers..................... I\'m guessing it will loose the white tips. It\'s shanks have gone pale slate. I\'m not experienced at matching genotypes to down color, but would take a wild guess it\'s a silver/partidge mix.
Since I\'ve not yet hatched one white chick from the white on white breedings, I\'ve toe punched all the chicks from these hatches, suspect both the white roo and some of my B/B/S girls were not carrying the proper genotypes, and calling the chicks EEs. Since the buffalo gnats culled all but one blue hen of both lines, I needed to start over anyway. Unfortunetly , I lost my other line of blues/blacks also.
ETA: Perhaps I spoke too soon; the second Ameraucana chick hatched out today, though not dry yet, appears to have \"dirty white\" down.