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Silkie with 4 toes

post #1 of 4
4/9/12 at 3:40pm
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Hi all,

 

I just picked up 4 silkie chicks from TSC (they are cream colored, so I guess they are white silkies?) and one of them has 4 toes.  Furry feet, etc., but 4 toes.  Thoug it looks like he may have one tiny tiny vestigial toe on one foot.

 

Does this happen a lot?  Is it indicative of any other problems?

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post #2 of 4
4/9/12 at 4:19pm

We had one that we picked up from TSC that only had nine toes.  It was a white one as well.  Ours are six or seven weeks, approximately, and are all doing fine.  I don't think that a missing toe is too much of a problem unless you ever wanted to show them.

We live on a beautiful homestead in Kansas.  We have lots of bantams and standards (many breeds including: EEs, BOs, Speckled Sussexes, Delawares, Silkies, d'Uccles, Cochins, A few home hatched mixes, OEG bantams, and a couple undetermined).  We also have five goats (mixed origin), one dexter heifer, two pigs, and nine ducks.  Life couldn't be much better.

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We live on a beautiful homestead in Kansas.  We have lots of bantams and standards (many breeds including: EEs, BOs, Speckled Sussexes, Delawares, Silkies, d'Uccles, Cochins, A few home hatched mixes, OEG bantams, and a couple undetermined).  We also have five goats (mixed origin), one dexter heifer, two pigs, and nine ducks.  Life couldn't be much better.

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post #3 of 4
4/9/12 at 5:27pm
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Nope, these are just backyard pets/egg layers/child amusers.  I don't really care how many toes they have as long as they are healthy. 

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post #4 of 4
4/10/12 at 9:27am
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lol now I found one with 6 toes on one foot.  My daughters named that one Puffball.  The 4 toed one is Doofis.

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