New to Silkies, Color Question (Added Pictures)

[chicken truck]

i noticed yellow beak and feet. do you have pics of parrents? or of the hen and what you believe the rooster to be?

 

[Willowbrook]

As of tonight I don't have pictures of the parents, but they are all white. Not one of them has any other color on them whatsoever. Hopefully, I'll have time tomorrow to photograph the parents.

As a side note...I raise exotic birds (parrots) and many species have "splits" or what would be called hidden genes that may not be visible on the parent bird, but show up in the offspring. I have a basic understanding of recessive and sex-linked genes but don't know if that is applied in fowl?

Believe me, I'm as baffled as you, since I don't understand what color has the ability to produce what.

 

[solarquail]

does it have 10 toes? cause if its a silkie itll have 10 toes and the feet will be like a charcoal color.

 

[stumble_n_mumble]

they look more like cochin bantams to me. lol i would like to see pictures of the parents also!

 

[solarquail]

yea.. agreed.
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[solarquail]

it does have ten toes i see it now so maybe the mama is a silkie and the daddy is a cochin bantam....

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Do you have any breeds or roosters other than silkies & showgirl? The chick doesn't look like a purebred silkie, which would account for the black (and that is the variety) down.

 

[TurtleFeathers]

My mottled bantam cochins looked like that at that age!

 

[Willowbrook]

Thanks for everyone's reply.

It would be great if I had a bantam Cochin but I don't! I checked again, and the four chicks do have 5 toes on each foot.
The only other rooster here is a Buckeye rooster and he's not in the same barn as her and his color is mahogany red.

 

[stumble_n_mumble]

can you post pictures of the probably parents?