Mystery Bantam With Five Toes/Yellow Skin

[CannedMonster]

I purchased 5 assorted bantam chicks at TSC today.
One is clearly a porcelain D’Uccle.
The other four (2 buff & 2 red) are (I assumed) Cochins.
However, while taking care of some pasty butt on some of them, I noticed one of the red chicks has 5 toes!
ALL four of these chicks have feathered feet and YELLOW skin.
What breed of bantam would have yellow skin, feathered feet and 5 toes?
The other three have 4 toes.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Could we have pictures, please?

 

[CannedMonster]

Yes I’m sorry!
I’ll post some tomorrow as I’m currently at the tax office lol.

 

[Alexandra33]

Pictures would certainly be helpful, whenever you get around to it.

You say it's a red chick with 5 toes?

~Alex

 

[CannedMonster]

Pictures would certainly be helpful, whenever you get around to it.

You say it's a red chick with 5 toes?

~Alex

Yes. It’s definitely red and not buff.
It has a little darker red spot on its head too.
I’ll be sure to get pics tomorrow.
They’re hatchery chicks so maybe there’s a mix up going on?

 

[drumstick diva]

anxious to see your photos especially of the red one.

 

[CannedMonster]

Sorry guys but I had to avert a crisis this morning!!
I have the 7 chicks in the garage in a rabbit hutch.
I have food, water and a heat plate for them.
There’s a bit of a learning curve for store chicks to learn that they need to go underneath to warm themselves.
They seemed to catch on quickly yesterday but I wasn’t sure if they knew where the food and water was.
I dipped their beaks, etc.
I checked them last night before going to bed and all was well.

This morning it was absolute chaos!
I heard loud distressed cheeping and looked in the hutch to see them piled up between the wall and the lid of the heat plate.
My tiniest chick, a porcelain D’Uccle, was in a different area on its back with its head buried underneath the shavings and it was shaking and trembling all over!!!
I quickly grabbed that chick and felt how cold it was.
Omg omg omg!!!
I held it next to my body and heard very faint peeping.
I picked up the others and put them underneath the heat plate and they all seemed to be okay.
I’m still holding the tiny chick next to my skin.
But I still hear extremely loud distress calls...
I lift the heat plate and count...
Six
Only six chicks
Where’s the seventh? The biggest Orpington chick is missing.
I started looking around everywhere and I finally find her underneath the hutch on the concrete garage floor!!
So I picked up that one and her feet were so cold!
I held her too.
She warmed up and I put her back with the others but the D’Uccle was in bad shape.
I took it into the house and mixed some Nutri Drench up and continued to hold it next to me.
It was so weak!
It slowly began to warm but I wanted to help it revive faster.
I got a syringe and pulled some Nutri Drench into it and squirted some in the babies mouth.
It acted like it was swallowing but then it seemed like it was choking
Omg I made it worse!
I tipped the chick upside down trying to make sure it wasn’t aspirating.
It started peeping weakly again so I figured I better stop and just keep it warm.
I had no idea they’d fall through the little rabbit hutch bars!
I feel so bad and stupid.
I had a bantam broody in the hutch with a chick for over a month and the chick never fell through but I guess that’s because she kept close to her mama.
I moved all the chicks to a very large plastic tote with their heat plate, etc.
The tiny D’Uccle has recovered and even was eating a little too.
Pics of the little red 5 toed one will be posted shortly.

 

[CannedMonster]

Okay I finally got pics of this little one.

I had assumed it was a bantam Cochin but the 5 toes has me puzzled.
Perhaps it’s just the anomalies of sloppy hatchery breeding?

Um...please disregard the frozen chicken thawing in the background lol
As you can see below, it has feathered feet.

Also, I checked the other red and the two buff Cochins and they have 4 toes.

 

[Alexandra33]

So sorry to hear about your little fiasco. Thankfully, it sounds like things have been put at rights.

I do believe you have a 5-toed Red Cochin. Genetic abnormality, perhaps? Unusual, and adorable.

~Alex

 

[CannedMonster]

So sorry to hear about your little fiasco. Thankfully, it sounds like things have been put at rights.

I do believe you have a 5-toed Red Cochin. Genetic abnormality, perhaps? Unusual, and adorable.

~Alex

Thankfully everyone is behaving normally now.
I guess that’s probably how 5 toed birds started in the first place...genetic abnormalities lol.
I’m hoping one of the reds is a cockerel.
I’ve been wanting a red Cochin cockerel.
But even if it’s one of the buffs, I hope I only have one cockerel and not several.