Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

[andreamunroe]

I heard back from my friend. She got the rooster as an egg from the local agricultural college, who have leghorns but also other breeds too, so no idea. He was a really small rooster. She said none of her neighbours on her road have chickens, she lives on a side road off a rural highway, so that white rooster was the only possibility.

She definitely came from a large brown egg and not a silkie one, Barnevelder is the mom for sure.

I’ll grab pics of the 2 silkies that she had- as far as I know they were both hens and laying, but heck, there’s something going on here so who knows? It’s 2020, anything is possible haha

so strange. I’m cool with her being an unknown, and super glad that you folks think she’s a girl. Maybe someday when we’re out of town and allowed roosters, I can breed her to a couple of different Roos and just see what we get. She’s so beautiful.

 

[andreamunroe]

Here are the 2 silkies, no idea about toes or if they were mixed or what. She did say there was something special about the black on because the feathers were actually white, and just black at the tips or something. I have no idea about silkies at all (or chicken genetics in general haha- but now I’m super intrigued to learn more)

 

[JadeFarms]

Why do you say it’s not a silkie egg? If it’s not a different roo and not a different hen than one with a crest then it has to be a silkie. Even if the roo had a small crest, the babies would either have really small crest or none at all.

 

[JadeFarms]

Silkies lay a cream/ light brown looking egg. Barnevelders lay a light brown egg, so they are similar egg colors.

 

[andreamunroe]

Silkies lay a cream/ light brown looking egg. Barnevelders lay a light brown egg, so they are similar egg colors.

Aren’t silkie eggs smaller? The 2 small eggs we got from my friend (which she said were the silkie eggs) were a white/cream colour and quite small- neither of them hatched. The other 5 eggs were really large and brown (bigger than the eggs we get from my 1 year old RIRs and australorps, and darker brown then them, too)- she said these were the barnevelder ones, and it was 2 of these that hatched these birds. I can’t imagine a silkie laying an egg that big, they had to be from the barnevelders mamas.

Maybe one of her silkies was a rooster and she didn’t know it, and this was the dad, rather than the white rooster? But that seems improbable.

I have no idea what could be going on here otherwise though. The orange cockerel who wasthe other from this hatch also has a bit of a crest.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Unless the dad is carrying some SUPER weird genes, I'd say there was a mix-up.

 

[andreamunroe]

I’ll call her a barnevelder-polish mailman.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I’ll call her a barnevelder-polish mailman.

Mailman?

 

[chrissynemetz]

Looks like a silkie mix to me

 

[The Happster]

Dad must be one of the Silkies.
As a chick she looks especially Silkie.