Cochin-Silkie Mix???

[Ashley McDaniel]

Hi, meet Snowball. I purchased her and the little buff silkie that you see in the pics when they were 3 weeks old. They are both now 5 months old. It's obvious that one is a silkie and the other is not full blooded. My guess is that she may be mixed with a Cochin but I'm not sure. She has gray slate legs and orange/golden/reddish eyes. Feathered feet. I think they're both hens but not sure either lol but I haven't heard any crowing YET. Can you help me determine the sex and bree

d please? Thank you.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

It does look like a pullet, and Cochin is as good of guess as any, though coloring reminds me of a buff Orpington.

 

[drumstick diva]

Do they have black legs & feet with 5 toes? Feathered feet, black skin?? Did they come from a hatchery - often hatchery birds have little resemblance to the breed. If they are 5 mos. old, they probably would have crowded already if they were cockerels.

 

[Ashley McDaniel]

Hello again and thank you for the responses. The smaller chick, who appears to be a pure bred silkie has black legs and skin, five toes. The other chick in question, Snowball, has the same colored legs with five toes, feathered feet and a gray beak. I'll have to double check later this morning to see if her skin is black as well. Silkies are my favorite of all chicken breeds. I have done a lot of research lol but I always knew that Snowball was not a pure bred due to her feather texture. And after doing some research on the Buff Orpington and also viewing pics and info on an Orpington/Silkie Cross Thread, as the first person suggested she resembled an Orpington, I'm pretty convinced that may be what she is. I purchased them from a friend who lives on a farm a few hours away from here. He loves the Silkie breed as well, and sometimes the females can be hard to find. The chicks were young and I was not able to sex them, nor was he, at least that's what he told me lol but when they were little, they looked a lot alike. He said they were silkies. One would be a white silkie, the other a buff silkie. But within a few weeks Snowball's feathers began to come in and they were not the standard fluffy, silkie feathers that we all know, they were like that of the Orpington, Cochin, etc. Now, purebred or not it makes no difference, I love her to death. I'm glad that we all agree that she looks to be a puller though lol Now, do you guys think the little buff silkie resembles a girl? Her crest has really started to come in, I'm seeing it to be more round than saggy. I have a 1 year old Buff Silkie rooster who would love a mate is why I'm so hopeful she's a pullet. Thanks so much for your help.

 

[Ashley McDaniel]

*The buff silkie has feathered feet *pullet *Swaggy sorry, had a few mistakes in there lol

 

[JedJackson]

Hello again and thank you for the responses. The smaller chick, who appears to be a pure bred silkie has black legs and skin, five toes. The other chick in question, Snowball, has the same colored legs with five toes, feathered feet and a gray beak. I'll have to double check later this morning to see if her skin is black as well. Silkies are my favorite of all chicken breeds. I have done a lot of research lol but I always knew that Snowball was not a pure bred due to her feather texture. And after doing some research on the Buff Orpington and also viewing pics and info on an Orpington/Silkie Cross Thread, as the first person suggested she resembled an Orpington, I'm pretty convinced that may be what she is. I purchased them from a friend who lives on a farm a few hours away from here. He loves the Silkie breed as well, and sometimes the females can be hard to find. The chicks were young and I was not able to sex them, nor was he, at least that's what he told me lol but when they were little, they looked a lot alike. He said they were silkies. One would be a white silkie, the other a buff silkie. But within a few weeks Snowball's feathers began to come in and they were not the standard fluffy, silkie feathers that we all know, they were like that of the Orpington, Cochin, etc. Now, purebred or not it makes no difference, I love her to death. I'm glad that we all agree that she looks to be a puller though lol Now, do you guys think the little buff silkie resembles a girl? Her crest has really started to come in, I'm seeing it to be more round than saggy. I have a 1 year old Buff Silkie rooster who would love a mate is why I'm so hopeful she's a pullet. Thanks so much for your help.

Snowball could be a Silkie/Orpington cross. Unless I'm getting the wrong impression from the photos, she looks larger than the other Silkies, and that could be the reason. It's still possible she's a Cochin/Silkie mix, too. But whatever she is she is very pretty and she looks right at home with the Silkies.

Now, the young buff Silkie in the pictures looks like a pullet but better pictures, including clear closeups of the comb, would help confirm that.

 

[Ashley McDaniel]

Yes, I agree completely! And she's much bigger. Hence, the Orpington I think. I'll post more picks of Pumpkin this afternoon. And yes, the Silkies have accepted her as one of their own. They act like the Brady Bunch lol

 

[Gray Farms]

Looks like a classic Silkie/Cochin mix to me.