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chicken mystery- can a pheasant AND a chicken mate & have viable eggs?

post #1 of 22
6/23/12 at 10:08am
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chicken mystery. We have NO black adult chickens & the chick that is the oldest & black was bought by a child who could not keep it & so it was brought out to us. WELL...we just had a black chick hatch out of an egg. I repeat, we have no black adult chickens. 8/ there has been a pheasant around, guess I need to find a pic of pheasant chicks. We have sex link hens (2) & 2 bantam silkies & the rest are chantecluer chickens & the rooster is a chantecler.
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Living in North Dakota & I have 1 cat, 1 dog, 19 chickens, mostly Chanteclers, and a couple of other breeds. CHICKENS ARE ADDICTING.

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Living in North Dakota & I have 1 cat, 1 dog, 19 chickens, mostly Chanteclers, and a couple of other breeds. CHICKENS ARE ADDICTING.

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post #2 of 22
6/23/12 at 10:49am

Silkies can be black.  Just because the adults aren't black doesn't mean they cannot produce black chicks.  They can carry the gene to create black chicks. 

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post #3 of 22
6/23/12 at 1:13pm

Do you have white silkies? A white silkie can carry any color genes. My white roo   rarely has white babies.

http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/chiqitas-coop

 

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http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/chiqitas-coop

 

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post #4 of 22
6/23/12 at 4:44pm
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no, no white silkies & the feet are not the feet of a silkie.  I will try to get a better picture.
 

Living in North Dakota & I have 1 cat, 1 dog, 19 chickens, mostly Chanteclers, and a couple of other breeds. CHICKENS ARE ADDICTING.

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Living in North Dakota & I have 1 cat, 1 dog, 19 chickens, mostly Chanteclers, and a couple of other breeds. CHICKENS ARE ADDICTING.

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post #5 of 22
6/24/12 at 2:55pm
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Originally Posted by terri1nd View Post

no, no white silkies & the feet are not the feet of a silkie.  I will try to get a better picture.
 

a mix between a black sex link and a silkie would not always give the feet of a silkie.  I figured you meant the chick was a silkie mix.   

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post #6 of 22
6/24/12 at 2:56pm

Sorry i meant sex link.  was thinking black because your chick looks like the typical black sex link rooster chick. 

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post #7 of 22
6/24/12 at 2:58pm

I don't know if this will show up as a link, but it's a google search for black sex link rooster chick.  A picture for you to compare to your chick.  Looks almost exactly like yours.



http://www.google.com/imgres?q=black+sex+link+rooster+chick&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=624&tbm=isch&tbnid=aZlolyOerAmPmM:&imgrefurl=http://aviewfromthegreenbarn.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html&docid=fHatH6ChzJm8UM&imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-kevZ7JEsRU/SaqdwBa9uAI/AAAAAAAAA-M/ZBuyDOeZzmM/s400/black%252Bsex%252Blinks%252B038%252Bweb.jpg&w=302&h=400&ei=Io3nT93gBKno2QXU_MTvAQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=565&vpy=253&dur=8534&hovh=258&hovw=195&tx=146&ty=195&sig=105089629560761476061&page=1&tbnh=130&tbnw=96&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:17,s:0,i:127

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post #8 of 22
7/1/12 at 7:15am
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Thank you for your input.  I value all (usually) responses.  We have blue (gray) silkie bantams (I think that is what they are, they came from my son in law).  I will have to keep a photo journal for this particular bird.  lol
 

Living in North Dakota & I have 1 cat, 1 dog, 19 chickens, mostly Chanteclers, and a couple of other breeds. CHICKENS ARE ADDICTING.

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Living in North Dakota & I have 1 cat, 1 dog, 19 chickens, mostly Chanteclers, and a couple of other breeds. CHICKENS ARE ADDICTING.

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post #9 of 22
7/1/12 at 8:05am
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Originally Posted by terri1nd View Post

Thank you for your input.  I value all (usually) responses.  We have blue (gray) silkie bantams (I think that is what they are, they came from my son in law).  I will have to keep a photo journal for this particular bird.  lol
 

Silkies have an extra toe on each foot, and they also have black skin.  That includes the skin on their feet.  I really doubt if your chick is a silkie.  It may be part silkie but it's not a pure silkie. 

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post #10 of 22
7/1/12 at 8:09am

a mate between sex-link does not produce sex link.

I am the mama of 9 full-grown hens: 1 Dominikers, 1 Partridge Rock, and 2 Buff Orpingtons, and 5 gold comets

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I am the mama of 9 full-grown hens: 1 Dominikers, 1 Partridge Rock, and 2 Buff Orpingtons, and 5 gold comets

Join my RPG!!  http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/745405/walk-in-the-wild-wolf-rpg#post_10488392

Or this one!!  http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/748669/pride-of-the-serangheti-a-lion-pride-rpg-needs-members

Or, this one!!  http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/764630/stray-wild-feral-ca...

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