Thoughts on what this fella might be crossed with? Got him from someone that got him from a swap. They thought he was a Phoenix and Ayam Cemani cross. Def not a pheonix though, he has some feathering on legs! Thinking maybe bantam cochin?
He's bantam sized. Twice the size of my sebrights in the photo, quite a bit smaller than my standard sized hens. Has black skin, legs, and comb, so Ayam seems right. Interestingly he has some patchy feathering on his legs (black patches in photo are feathers, but he came with scaly leg mites so hard to see sorry! (getting better fast with some TLC!)).
The photo of him from the seller had a single rooster tail feather tail sticking up. I assumed molting, but he has none now and hasn't grown any in over the last three weeks I've had him, so unclear yet. Comb is pretty smooth and unusual, maybe like a single missing the spikes.
He's bantam sized. Twice the size of my sebrights in the photo, quite a bit smaller than my standard sized hens. Has black skin, legs, and comb, so Ayam seems right. Interestingly he has some patchy feathering on his legs (black patches in photo are feathers, but he came with scaly leg mites so hard to see sorry! (getting better fast with some TLC!)).
The photo of him from the seller had a single rooster tail feather tail sticking up. I assumed molting, but he has none now and hasn't grown any in over the last three weeks I've had him, so unclear yet. Comb is pretty smooth and unusual, maybe like a single missing the spikes.