Red jungle fowl - Page 6

Its a mixed silkie hen for sure.

never said it was pure breed, just looked like a silkie...

This hen, although a wild fowl, may be of some ancesotry to birds from which silkies were originally bred.  While they appear similar, that is it.  This is NOT a silky cross, or a silky, like Cochin says, they look similar.  Would like to remind us, that silkies are oriental birds, originally from Asia, and so naturally they are decendants of some bird that had fuzzyness, and they bread for it.  She has fuzziness, but clearly lacks feathered feet, and these birds are not bantems.  They are wild fowl, native to Vietnam.

Silkies have fuzzy feat, all dark meat (very dark indeed), and are naturally evenly colored (except some bread for pattern in the last 50 years.)  This hen just happens to have a gene allowing her feathers to not stand as stiff and togather, giving a vaguely silkish appearance, but that is all.  Besides, she states clearly earlier that she DOES NOT have silkies, and I'm positive she would know what they are.  Very commen bird there, and unlike here in the states, they are commenly used as an entree.  (Can you say Bizarre Foods??? Travel Channel)

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Originally Posted by CochinBrahmaLover 

 

isnt she a silkie?

i coudlnt see the entire pictures to see her non feathered legs, and if it were a silkie she has a partridge coloring and dark skin, tho in the picture its hard to tell HOW dark

I'd wager a dozen fertile duck eggs from my A+ layer pen that she is not any part silky, unless being related to the ancestors of silkies counts.  Silkies are not the only bird, or the first bird, to have that feather gene.