Just wondering about my rooster

[ButteCA]

I’ve decided I’m going to start a new chicken breed based on these sweet chicken eyebrows lol.

 

[red horse ranch]

"No bird has more than four toes except chickens of the Dorking, Faverolle, Houden, Sultan, and Non-bearded Silkie Bantams, all of which have five toes. In these breeds the extra toe arises above the base of the hallux and projects upward, never touching the ground. In the Silkie, the extra toes often lie nearly in the same plane as the hallux. "
https://extension.illinois.edu/eggs/res13-feet.html
The last I I posted this I was told that Bearded Silkies have 5 toes as well. Looks like a cross.
Here are pics of Faverolles http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Favs/BRKFaverolles.html
Dorkings
https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Dorks/BRKDorks.html
Houdan
https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Houdan/BRKHoudan.html
the spike on his head seems to indicate maybe a Houdan cross.

Your link about Dorkings says that there is a recognized red variety of Dorking. Maybe that's what we're seeing here?

 

[ButteCA]

Your link about Dorkings says that there is a recognized red variety of Dorking. Maybe that's what we're seeing here?

I think a there is a good chance that it’s faverolle. Not many Silkies in my area that I know of. I got mine from the next town over and there is a town an hour away that has them. Our tractor supply never sells anything to exotic. That’s where I got my hens and I’m pretty sure they’re cinnamon queens,barred rocks and a Rhode Island Red but every now and then they have something different and my neighbor always finds it. She got a faverolle hen there so if there are more in the area I could see that being a possibility. He was at a family owned feed store. They probably brought him there and sold him because they had too many roosters.It’s a classic how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop scenario. My best friend told me to buy a rooster dna test lol.

 

[ButteCA]

In fact she may have gotten them from that family owned feed store. I’m going to ask her.

 

[TheOgdensmenagerie]

He is seriously the prettiest rooster I've ever seen!

 

[ButteCA]

He is seriously the prettiest rooster I've ever seen!

He’s got some pretty vibrant colors I can’t wait to see his offspring when they hatch. At the same time the suspense is killing me.Every egg in the incubator has little eyes and blood veins right now and I have no idea which hens layed them because they all lay in the same pile. I’m hoping to get some from my barred rock hens. I wonder what a rooster from a pair like that will look like!

 

[TheOgdensmenagerie]

He’s got some pretty vibrant colors I can’t wait to see his offspring when they hatch. At the same time the suspense is killing me.Every egg in the incubator has little eyes and blood veins right now and I have no idea which hens layed them because they all lay in the same pile. I’m hoping to get some from my barred rock hens. I wonder what a rooster from a pair like that will look like!

Those are gunna be very interesting!

 

[Kat C]

He’s got some pretty vibrant colors I can’t wait to see his offspring when they hatch. At the same time the suspense is killing me.Every egg in the incubator has little eyes and blood veins right now and I have no idea which hens layed them because they all lay in the same pile. I’m hoping to get some from my barred rock hens. I wonder what a rooster from a pair like that will look like!

Every chick that has barring will have a white head dot when born. Every rooster will be barred and every hen will not be barred. The barring gene is on the sex chromosome and unlike humans hens have one long one short and roosters have two long. The female chicks have to have gotten the short chromosome from their mother and thus they won't get the barring gene. The male chicks have to have gotten the long chromosome from the mother and will be heterozygous for barring. If the chicks are buff rather than black due to the father you might not see the head dot on the males. In that case the males should be crele barred like this fine rooster we have. He was a buff chick and the head dot didn't show. A great place to play with what you might get when you cross birds is here http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html Of course that works better when you start with pure breeds which have known genetics. Once you start crossing things get hidden and sometimes pop up unexpectedly. Crossing birds is such fun. Keeps you from having a boring flock.

 

[Kat C]

I think a there is a good chance that it’s faverolle. Not many Silkies in my area that I know of. I got mine from the next town over and there is a town an hour away that has them. Our tractor supply never sells anything to exotic. That’s where I got my hens and I’m pretty sure they’re cinnamon queens,barred rocks and a Rhode Island Red but every now and then they have something different and my neighbor always finds it. She got a faverolle hen there so if there are more in the area I could see that being a possibility. He was at a family owned feed store. They probably brought him there and sold him because they had too many roosters.It’s a classic how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop scenario. My best friend told me to buy a rooster dna test lol.

I go with the Houdan. Faverolles have lots of feathers in the muffs and beard but don't have real head top nots. Silkies do and Houdans do. Houdans sometimes have really spikey feathers like his does. Also Faverolles have a LOT of feathers on their feet while his has only a few. But I expect it is not a pure Houdan but a cross. We got a Faverolle as a bonus chick last year .... here is her pic

Here is a Houdan from http://www.roysfarm.com/houdan-chicken/