Guess that breed!

[ButteCA]

I know it's a silkie cross. Lots of toes,black skin. His beak has a white tip and he has big black beety eyes. I know silkie cross is probably the best I'll get. Just thought I would throw it out there for fun.

 

[AlleysChicks]

Hatchery quality silkie? Parents would have to have silkie feathers or at least a copy each.

 

[OkieChickenGal]

I'm guessing silkie crossed with a white sultan...

 

[ButteCA]

I'm not sure. They were selling him at the feed store. No blue on the cheeks but he has the white cheeks.(I know they aren't cheeks I'm just having a brain fart.) I was thinking silkie leg horn cross.

 

[ButteCA]

I can see the white sultan being a possibility as well.

 

[ButteCA]

HOLD UP! I thought silkies ALWAYS had the black combs and the blue ear cheek things (someone help me out ) is this not true? I was looking into different kinds of combs because I'm just nerding out on chickens today and I thought for sure that silkies always have the black combs and now I'm seeing articles that are telling me different. I was told if they dont have the blue they are not truly silkies.

 

[AlleysChicks]

Mulberry walnut combs is the color and type they are supposed to have.

 

[Sneebsey]

Silkies feathering, as @AlleysChicks says, is recessive, therefore both parents must have had a copy of the gene, so were likely silkies or mixes thereof. I believe fibro is incomplete dominant, so if he has only one gene for fibro, and one for not fibro, we get the mulberry colour of his comb and wattles. Mine is the same in that respect, and he has fathered both non-fibro and fibro chicks.

 

[ButteCA]

Silkies feathering, as @AlleysChicks says, is recessive, therefore both parents must have had a copy of the gene, so were likely silkies or mixes thereof. I believe fibro is incomplete dominant, so if he has only one gene for fibro, and one for not fibro, we get the mulberry colour of his comb and wattles. Mine is the same in that respect, and he has fathered both non-fibro and fibro chicks.
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Wow.So they are still "purebred" although no blue?!

 

[ButteCA]

I took some more pics for fun.