Araucana chick with silky feathers?

[noriko]

very interesting.....I have silkies....araucanas.....ameraucanas......I should try.......

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Looks to be a silkieXaraucana; one variation of an Easter Egger. Very pretty colouring. She has more than one generation of silkie in her to have acquired silkie feathers.

If she lays a blue egg you could try breeding the trait into a line of grey or partridge silkies. She looks to be grey with autosomal red.

 

[greytrains]

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We ordered it through Southern States. I don't remember where they ordered them from. I will have to check.

I understand what EE means but what does BO mean?

 

[LilPeeps]

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We ordered it through Southern States. I don't remember where they ordered them from. I will have to check.

I understand what EE means but what does BO mean?

Never heard of Southern States, I'm guessing it's a local feed store?

BO = buff orp

 

[BarkerChickens]

Green legs suggests she might be an EE. Probably has Silkie in her blood to get that pretty feathering. She'll be a great bird and awesome layer I am sure! If you don't want her, you can send her to me!

ETA: I changed my green leg statement to

. Sonoran Silkies is correct. There are purebreds of other breeds that can have green legs as well.

 

[Jeff9118]

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You do not need more then 1 generation of silkie in the background to get silkie feathering. This is a mutation and you just need the gene. I once had a half silkie, half jap rooster (regular feathering)that I breed to half jap, half cochin with no silkie lineage in her back ground. I did hatch a silkie chick from this cross that looked pure silkie in every way except for the yellow legs, pink skin, red walnut comb and 4 toes . I gave it to a friend who breed it to a pure silkie who's offspring were all 100% silkie feathered. I have also crossed pure silkie to other breeds and every once in a while got a silkie feathered chick. If this were true, silkie seramas would have silkie features besides feathers.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

The silkie gene is recessive. A bird has to have two copies for the trait to show. All chickens with silkie feathers have two copies of h. Yes, it could be a random mutation, aka sport, but that would be fairly uncommon. A recessive gene can lurk and hide for generations.

There are quite a few breeds and varieties with willow legs; it doesn;t ID the bird as an Easter Egger. Indeed, there is no standard for an Easter Egger, and there is no relationship between leg colour and eggshell colour.

 

[HorseFeathers]

Just to give you a heads up: If it has a tail, it's not an Aracauna. It's an EE.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Not true. Many true araucana breeders use tailed birds in their breeding pens. Ditto for birds without tufts. The birds exhibited, however should be rumpless and tufted; otherwise they will be DQed.