Deformed chick feet, missing toes

Oldegarlicshnapp

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This chick is the result of a silkie bantam and a smooth feathered serama. It has more or less of a missing toe on both feet.
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The serama mother used to have chipmunk stripes as a chick, since there’s some old English in her. This guy has it too although feathering on his feet leads me to believe he’ll probably be a silkie
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It also looks like there’s an additional toe growing on top of another one, albeit very small
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He came out of a weirdly pointed egg that had the air cell sideways. Maybe that caused it, but the extra toe growing where it shouldn’t still raises questions.
Is it normal for this crossbreed to produce deformities? I wonder how he’s going to look
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This is the mother:
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This is the father:
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It also looks like there’s an additional toe growing on top of another one, albeit very small...
Is it normal for this crossbreed to produce deformities?
It is normal for Silkies to have an extra back toe on each foot, and it is normal for Silkie-cross chicks to have the extra toe as well.

I think it is fairly commone for the extra toe to be attached to the usual back toe, or to be a partial extra toe instead of a complete extra toe.

I do not know anything specific about partially-missing toes, but I have not heard of it before, so I do not think it would be very common.
 
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I also have a little one with missing/weird toes! 🤯 Just the outside toes are affected.
 

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I also have a little one with missing/weird toes! 🤯 Just the outside toes are affected.
All of my swedish flower hens (roosters) have missing toes. 😂 My horse stepped on them while they were grabbing grain he dropped. Took them off or smashed them so badly they had to be removed. They are sloooowwww compared to my other breeds
 

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