chicken mystery- can a pheasant AND a chicken mate & have viable eggs?

[terri1nd]

chicken mystery. We have NO black adult chickens & the chick that is the oldest & black was bought by a child who could not keep it & so it was brought out to us. WELL...we just had a black chick hatch out of an egg. I repeat, we have no black adult chickens. 8/ there has been a pheasant around, guess I need to find a pic of pheasant chicks. We have sex link hens (2) & 2 bantam silkies & the rest are chantecluer chickens & the rooster is a chantecler.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

Silkies can be black. Just because the adults aren't black doesn't mean they cannot produce black chicks. They can carry the gene to create black chicks.

 

[chiqita]

Do you have white silkies? A white silkie can carry any color genes. My white roo rarely has white babies.

 

[terri1nd]

no, no white silkies & the feet are not the feet of a silkie. I will try to get a better picture.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

no, no white silkies & the feet are not the feet of a silkie. I will try to get a better picture.

a mix between a black sex link and a silkie would not always give the feet of a silkie. I figured you meant the chick was a silkie mix.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

Sorry i meant sex link. was thinking black because your chick looks like the typical black sex link rooster chick.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

I don't know if this will show up as a link, but it's a google search for black sex link rooster chick. A picture for you to compare to your chick. Looks almost exactly like yours.


http://www.google.com/imgres?q=blac...=96&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:17,s:0,i:127

 

[terri1nd]

Thank you for your input. I value all (usually) responses. We have blue (gray) silkie bantams (I think that is what they are, they came from my son in law). I will have to keep a photo journal for this particular bird. lol

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

Thank you for your input. I value all (usually) responses. We have blue (gray) silkie bantams (I think that is what they are, they came from my son in law). I will have to keep a photo journal for this particular bird. lol

Silkies have an extra toe on each foot, and they also have black skin. That includes the skin on their feet. I really doubt if your chick is a silkie. It may be part silkie but it's not a pure silkie.

 

[animallover505]

a mate between sex-link does not produce sex link.