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Love to see a photo of him if you are so inclined. 😊 My chicks are 50% silkie, 25% ameraucana and 25% black copper marans. This is the one with 4 toes: And a few of the others (all with 5 toes):

Thank you, I do appreciate it. 😊 Silkies normally have 5 toes and this trait is normally passed on to silkie crosses, often used as a sign that a cross bred bird has silkie in it. I was surprised when one of my hybrid chicks only had 4 toes (what most other chicken breeds have). All the other...

Thanks! Must be a random trait. 😊

Interestingly enough all the other chicks that have hatched so far have 5 toes. The first one is the only one that has four and looks more like a Marans than the other chicks do. 😊

absolutely sure! He has a straight comb which is a throwback I believe. But he comes from a very long line of several generations of Silkies from a breeder, a well-known one, in Alabama!😊

Cool! Does that mean that the trait is incomplete dominant? Were your crosses first generation, too? 😊

I just hatched 2 silkie cross chicks. I am 117% sure who the parents are. My white silkie cockerel that I hatched from a breeder's eggs this past Spring crossed with a black Olive egger, that is half Ameraucana and half BCM. I expected the chicks to all have 5 toes, it is what I have learned...