Five toed breeds

[Firedancer87]

Her coloring is similar to a blue laced red wyandotte, but less bright. The colors are a bit lighter.

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

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First generation Silkie crosses, the most likely to retain the five toes and dark shanks, do not have silkied feathers. They would have regular feathers, perhaps like an EE or any other bird.

If indeed a silkie was involved in the cross, the other bird would have to have a single comb, probably larger size.

Do you have a photo? That would be most helpful!

 

[Firedancer87]

I would love to post a pic, but sadly i haven't been able to figure that one out yet. I'm extremely new to this thing lol.

 

[jennifersmith326]

Faverolles have the 5 toes you are talking about and depending on what it is crossed with the coloring could look like an Ameracauna

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

There are five 5-toed breeds: dorkings, faverolles, houdans, silkies and sultans. All have already been mentioned, but not in a single posting.

At the top of the page there is a blue menu bar, slightly to the right of center is the option "Uploads." Click on that and follow directions to copy photos to your BYC storage space. Once a photo is uploaded, you can copy the Image Code into a post. If you already have photos on a public accessible web location, you can enclose the url in between

. It really is not very difficult (unless you've already filled up your BYC storage space

)

 

[Firedancer87]

Ok, here goes my attempt at posting her pics.

The second pic is one of her eggs.

 

[Firedancer87]

I appologize for the lack of wing feathering. They had been clipped & are just beginning to grow back in.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

She has a bit of a faverolle look to her, but certainly not pure as there is no beard/muffs

Does she have foot feathering? Maybe a dorking X faverolle? or toss in some cochin, too?

 

[Firedancer87]

She has no feathering on her legs or feet, that was one of the first things I looked for. She does have a look similar to some of the salmon faverolles I have seen. I'm just suprised to find a cross breed in this flock, he prided himself on the purest strains available, they were his babys. Most of the others were 6 months-1 year old, she looks a bit older. A few cochins look about the same age, but there were no faverolles. Not sure what her deal is.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Well, I doubt cochin as they have very heavily feathered feet. So really the only thing that fits is dorking, and she simply doesn't look like she has much dorking (maybe a bit, though).