Can white Silkie chicks have pink skin at hatch?

Here's one for you. I have a silkie, about 3 months old. (S)he came to me with pink skin & one of her feet was the normal silkie 5-toed bird, but her other foot was a standard breed with FOUR toes! At 3 months she is STILL pink with the blue tiny around her face/head but still a pink beak.

She could be mixed, but we think she's pretty neat!
 
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Just gonna resurrect this thread with this...

I have a supposed Silkie hatching. Son of my white Silkie hen and buff rooster. But the beak is a very light grayish tan/pink! Now my hens have been separated from my non Silkie rooster for months now, AND I'm half certain that egg was laid by the one hen that was never with the non Silkie roo (I have two hens)...but now I'm wondering if maybe somehow this is actually an offspring of the mutt roo?
 
Whew! What a relief. The thought of contacting 3 breeders & trying to nicely break the news to them that they're selling mixed breed chicks was giving me panic attacks. My own Silkies have never done that as far as I know. So when I saw that pink skin & pink legs & feet on the newly hatched chicks, my first thought was, uh oh, mixed breed.

Thank you so much for saving me from making a complete fool out of myself.
Sheri
I've read that the paint chicks can be born with pink skin and I've got 1 or 2 with pink and blk but I've wondered the same as to why my paint roo amd white hen all have solid blk skin and some were blk skinned but I got alot of pink or pink and blk skinned chicks which is confusing me. I know some people breed them to cochins so if at sometime down their line they were bred to cochin then they can throw chicks with pink skin as well.
 
Yes completely normal. Many breeds that exhibit slate legs as well do not get their leg color in until they are about a week old. My black Ameraucanas will often have pink toes for a few weeks but they end up with dark slate eventually.
I am glad to hear this from someone else too, I’ve never noticed pink skin from hatch turned to black, however, doing some research I found that paints. Do you have a pigmentation gene
Yes completely normal. Many breeds that exhibit slate legs as well do not get their leg color in until they are about a week old. My black Ameraucanas will often have pink toes for a few weeks but they end up with dark slate eventually.
I am glad to hear this from someone else too, I’ve never noticed pink skin from hatch turned to black, however, doing some research I found that paints. i am a breeder and breed specific to the American poultry association’s standards for silkies however, I also didn’t realize That “paints” were NOT a recognize color however, buff apparently is I always thought that was the other way around so I’m gonna do my own research on that…

On that note… I saw some silkies at tractor supply , (their supplier is Hoovers hatchery) and they too had some with pink skin …

I have had two buyers today alone ask me about this pink skin-toned colored Silkies, so although I found information on it, I’m going to see if I can’t contact the national poultry Association regarding Silkies, and figure out what the deal is with that because I have nothing but pure Silkies with all colors except for Baugh that I breed and just here lately have some of them come out with pink skin …. This has only started to happen with my latest hatched starting back a month ago with the SAME BREEDING STOCK I’ve used to breed my silkies for years now… never had a pink pigmentation in their skin before… do you think this has anything to do with the commercial feed issue/conspiracy with purina dumar? …just a thought.., because on that note, I have sense changed my feed because I was using them for a while and had a bunch of issues my hens stop laying no eggs soon as I swapped feed them merry go again back in business, so I don’t know really weird

One of the potential issues with this project color is that the paint gene can cause pigment holes. Silkies typically have completely black skin.
However, paint silkies are sometimes hatched with pink or light skin. They can also hatch with black skin that has these pigment holes — spots on their skin where it is not black. If the pigmentation is not too light, it can fill in as they mature. To help avoid this pigmentation problem, it is common practice to breed black split to paint or white split to paint over paint.

Black split to paint hen.
Black or white split to paint is a silkie that comes from a paint breeding (so it carries the paint gene and can produce paint chicks when bred to a paint silkie), but they themselves are a solid color.
 

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