Mystery chick??

[LittleBigBantam]

Hello everybody!
20 days ago I put 9 eggs into my incubator, 10 days ago I removed 8 of them. Leaving only 1 egg. The egg was large/white. Today at around 2:30pm it zipped and hatched completely within 15 minutes. The chick hatches and its white. I thought that was normal until it started walking around and it had leg feathers?? I dont have any chicken breeds that have leg feathers and lay WHITE eggs. I don't have two chickens of them same breed except for like 4 pairs, I have 28 chickens total. My two roosters are a splash silkie, and a blue ameraucauna with the black/splash gene present. I just dont understand how the chick hatched out of a white egg and has leg feathers?? Oh yea and it has five toes on each foot. SUPER CONFUSED..... help

 

[LittleBigBantam]

Also what do I do to make it not so lonely as it is the only to hatch. In a few weeks he's gonna go in with our turkey poults, 2 week old broad breasted whites.

 

[clucking with my chicken]

Hey, it may be a chochin or a silki chicken.

 

[Mvan42]

Pictures please

 

[EggSighted4Life]

My two roosters are a splash silkie, and a blue ameraucauna with the black/splash gene present. I just dont understand how the chick hatched out of a white egg and has leg feathers??

Your splash Silkie mated your white eggs layer is what it sounds like... confirmed by the 5 toes. Post pics if your like!

Only one parent needs to be feather legged... seems like it was a dominant gene??

If it's completely hatched by day 20... very likely your bator is on the warm side.

Maybe you can pick up a chick friend at a local feed store for company?

I would not put a two week younger in with BBW poults.. to large of size discrepancy for my comfort level,

 

[LittleBigBantam]

Thanks for quick replies! And how does one attach pictures to a reply? I have plenty of pictures just dont know how to share?

 

[LittleBigBantam]

Wait I got it, here are pictures. I looked at the chick a few minutes ago and it had patches of grey, so possible a white layer hen/silkie cross?

 

[LittleBigBantam]

I post the pictures then nobody replies lol

I also need advice in what to do for his lonesomness... I feel he's just gonna be really sad/lonely once he gets older. I cant go get more chicks right now as my state is on lockdown
Go Michigan.... woop woop. But what can I do for right now?

 

[bpoore04]

I post the pictures then nobody replies lol

I also need advice in what to do for his lonesomness... I feel he's just gonna be really sad/lonely once he gets older. I cant go get more chicks right now as my state is on lockdown
Go Michigan.... woop woop. But what can I do for right now?

I reckon you will have to be its buddy now lol

 

[LittleBigBantam]

I reckon you will have to be its buddy now lol

That's fine, I'm home until the 13th because coronavirus = no school