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

[leadwolf1]

The only thing that I can tell you for sure is that blue silkies can through black babies. 1st generation silkie mixes do not have to have the attributes of a silkie, black skin, 5 toes.

 

[billfields]

Photo is not real clear but looks like the chick has a white spot on it's head? Barred chickens (Bared Rocks, Cuckoo Marans, Dominiques and so on) start off as black chicks with white dots. This spring my first broody hatched a Cuckoo Maran/EE cross. S/he was also black with the white spot, Now at two months looks like his/her CM mother. Any chance you have a barred chicken somewhere?

 

[terri1nd]

We have sex link hens (2) & 2 bantam Silkies & 1 Buff Orphington, the rest are Chantecler chickens & the rooster is a Chantecler.. I will try to get better photos of the baby in question (in a couple of days(after the 4th)).
Thanks for the input.

 

[billfields]

I dunno a lot about this but I think in some sex links barred ???rocks?? are used. Second generation sex links are not going to breed true, they are going to be, basically mutts. So that may be where you got a black chick with a white dot that is going to grow in barred feathers.

Of course I could be entirely wrong.

Bill

 

[Panth]

yes...you keep saying Sex Links but WHAT KIND OF SEX LINKS? Are they Black Sex links or Red? If they are black, then that is a cross of a red rooster over a barred rock hen. What color is your Chantecler? If you do have BSLs then they can throw barred rock looking chicks, my partridge rooster over BSL hens often throws barred chicks.

 

[terri1nd]

I'm going to have to check with the son in law for precise knowledge of the breeds that my son in law had bought & brought out to our place. I know I have 1 Buff Orphington, 2 Blue Silkies, 4 Red Chantecler hens, 8 Partridge Chantecler hens & 1 Partridge Chantecler rooster, & 3 that are either Gold Sex Links, OR Golden Comets. At this point I'm not sure anymore. Guess oldtimers is setting in ;(

 

[terri1nd]

The mystery chick (not the cutest chick I've ever seen, lol)

 

[Panth]

LOL you are right, I never thought I would say it...but that isn't a very cute chick. I believe it is also a cockeral.
Can you get a better pic of the head and comb?

 

[terri1nd]

here is a different photo of the chick (is there a category for ugliest chick) LOL

 

[terri1nd]

forgot about the white hen, not sure what she is either. The blue silkies are missing from the photo (they don't hang with the group). The only other breed that is not represented in the photo below is the Buff Orphington (she is in the hoop coop with her baby)