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Hey guys, It's me again.
I posted last year and got some wonderful help identifying my BF male.
Now The problem is his offspring. Thought it would be pretty black and
white but once again I'm reminded that I'm still a noob. lol
Mom is cfw and there are four total. They are 8 weeks old, 2 obvious BF males( look just like the dad) one I believe Blackface hen? She has grey between beak and teardrop, With a single thin black breast bar.
The real puzzle is this pretty girl...
Any help would be much appreciated.

She looks like a single factor Florida Fancy (otherwise known as a Florida silver)(FS or sf FF) ....little hard to tell from the photos (lighting is effecting the second picture) if the tail bars are silver then Florida silver, it is co-dominant which means at least one of the parents carry the FF gene and to produce the FS you only need one... if both parents carry it or are split to FF you may see Florida Fancy and Florida silver young.

Sorry for the weird lighting. I took some more pictures today, hope this helps a little.
One has the mother for contrast. I had no idea so many different
Genes could be bottled up in one little bird! Is there any way to know
Which parent it could be? Also what keeps a co-dominant gene from being
Visible if paired with a recessive one?

Your CFW hen has some sort of dilution gene - her teardrop is grey as opposed to black. So she could be a single factor Florida Fancy (Florida Silver) or a Dominant Silver* in addition to being CFW. You would have to do test breedings to determine the exact gene, although I agree with Cindy that the buff tinge on the silver hen in your pics looks more like Florida Silver than Dominant Silver.

You can read more about Florida Fancy here:
http://www.efinch.com/species/ffzeb.htm

And about Dominant Silver here:
http://www.efinch.com/species/dszeb.htm

*Alternately your male could be split Recessive Silver and your hen homozygous Recessive Silver. This is probably much less likely though.

Cindy xz_zebs
Thanks for all the help guys! It's appreciated.
I've got a lot of reading to do now!