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Technically, the leg color is "pinkish horn" but let's call it white for ease of speaking, the blacks should have slate legs, and the blues should have bluish slate, so I am guessing that your roo had some black or blue parentage, which can be common for getting the black blacker, etc.. Both salmon and blue salmon have the same color legs. Just because a chick's 5th toe isn't placed correctly doesn't mean that it's a mix, it just means that the toes aren't perfect, which is really common. It's hard to find good stock with perfect toes. Ideally the 5th toe should point upward, and there should be no webbing between the 4th and 5th toes. In reality, that's very difficult to find, even with great breeder stock.
Technically, the leg color is "pinkish horn" but let's call it white for ease of speaking, the blacks should have slate legs, and the blues should have bluish slate, so I am guessing that your roo had some black or blue parentage, which can be common for getting the black blacker, etc.. Both salmon and blue salmon have the same color legs. Just because a chick's 5th toe isn't placed correctly doesn't mean that it's a mix, it just means that the toes aren't perfect, which is really common. It's hard to find good stock with perfect toes. Ideally the 5th toe should point upward, and there should be no webbing between the 4th and 5th toes. In reality, that's very difficult to find, even with great breeder stock.