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Quote: Short answer, no. Depending on the genes present in the parents, you can indeed get a PQ silkie with no foot feathers or the wrong colour of skin. Awhile back someone posted photos of "hard feathered" vs "soft feathered" silkie feathering. Also, the length of the feathers can vary...

I think many of the crested birds tend to spook a bit more about being picked up than non-crested ones--they don't see the hand coming and are startled when all of a sudden it is THERE. Try putting some food in you palm and approaching them with your hand as close to the ground as you can get...