Silkie or silkie mix?

[Cloverr39]

I'm trying to figure out if this chick is a silkie or silkie mix. What's making me think it's not a silkie is cause it hatched with light colored legs that have gotten darker over the past week. The legs are still a little yellowish green. The non-silkie hen I suspect might be it's mother is a silkie mix herself. That's why the 5 toes, dark skin and silked feathers don't surprise me. Father is a full silkie. The chick is a dominant white if that helps. 1 week old.

 

[sourland]

It looks as if it may be hard feathered. A couple of more days will tell for sure whether it may or may not be a cross.

 

[Cloverr39]

It looks as if it may be hard feathered. A couple of more days will tell for sure whether it may or may not be a cross.

Feathers look silked to me. At least they look and feel exactly the same as my silkie chicks that are same age. The silkie mix hen has only given me hard feathered chicks so far, but she still has a 50% chance of having silked chicks.

 

[fluffycrow]

Feathers look sikied to me

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

I had a similar situation years ago. I had a d'Uccle x Silkie mix father and White Silkie mother. 2/3 chicks were silked and had dark skin/five toes and were essentially Silkies. I just called them Silkies. At this point it's 3/4 Silkie and exhibit more Silkie traits than half of the pink-skinned and clean legged hatchery birds. Obviously I wouldn't sell them as that but if they look like Silkies and have the main traits, I would just call them that if they were in my flock