Remember me ... green beak and feet? Silkie x EE questions (pics-lots!

[kellykate]

Ok so this is my funny little chicken with the green beak and feet --now 9 weeks old. Rooster was a white Silkie and hen was a reddish EE. I have a couple questions -- Thanks so much for any knowledge you can share with me!!

1) Would you call this chicken an EE? I know EE are typically a mix breed between Americaunas and something else. But does a EE mixed with something else = an EE as well?

2) The combs between dad and mom were walnut and pea comb -- does this chicken have a mixture of those two or do they take the gene for just one type? If it is one type of comb -- what does it look like this one has?(pics below)

3) Can anyone tell gender yet?

4) Last but not least -- if it is a pullet, what color/size eggs can I expect? The lady who I got this chick from said it hatched from a blue egg.

Whew! Sorry so long --thanks for any help you can give me -- I am very curious about this mutt! Ok on to the pictures!

 

[NotTheMomma]

Well I can't answer your questions. That is one beautiful chick though!

 

[klf73]

looks like a boy to me....very pretty
eta- I wouldn't call it an EE personally, I would call it a silkie x or silkie x ee...

 

[Kev]

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Well the thing is.. EE have no standard. None. Zip. So nobody can really say what an EE is supposed to or has to look like.. It's merely mostly chance/side effect of sorts that most EE look "Ameraucana-ish". So a result of the common look, some people may demand that they have a general 'look' but then again.. no standard. So an EE can be frizzled, silky, feather legged etc. So it's up to you. Can say it's a Silkie X or even EE if you plan to breed it with other EE or..?

Let's put it another way.. "what if" most of the EE sold by hatcheries were crosses and mixes with the true Araucana with breeds like RIR, Rocks etc? Those would mostly look very different from the current pool of EE.. and then someone had an Ameraucana-ish type EE.. can people object to calling that one an EE when most of them are clean faced, rumpless being common..?

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Rose and pea are on different genetic locations, so a bird can have both at the same time. Strawberry and walnut are genetically both rose and pea.. however in silkies, while the standard calls for walnut in them, a modified rose comb lacking the presence of pea comb is very common in silkies. This bird seems it may have a true walnut comb(both rose and pea).

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When I first saw the comb, my thought was male, but it doesn't seem to show any pointy shiny feathers on neck or saddle.. kind of still think probably a male.

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Depends on if mother was pure or not for the blue eggshell gene. If she was pure, then it has the gene, irregardless of sex.. so if it turns out a male- he can still produce blue/green egg laying daughters. On the other hand, if the mother was not pure for the blue egg gene then there's a 50-50 chance. (blue color does not indicate her being pure..)

Cute bird btw!

 

[kellykate]

Wow Kev -- awesome! Thanks for all your help -- very interesting! I'll keep you posted on this little one -- I'll probably re-post a pic in a few weeks to see if we can say conclusively cockerel -- I agree the comb is starting to look suspicious but you're right the feathers don't have any point to them ... yet!!! I'll hold out a glimmer of hope for a pullet

Thanks again!!

 

[19hhbelgian]

When I first started out on the forum, I posted a question about my frizzle hen... She was laying green eggs! Someone posted - Cool, a frizzled EE!! If an EE is a cross, would it really matter if you call it just an EE? I don't know, I guess I'm just not that particular. I called her Frizzeze, and told people she was a frizzled EE. Your little one is VERY cute! Have fun with him/her

 

[klf73]

other than comb I was was looking at the crest, looks *swept back* like a cockeral silkie would....

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

That colour of beak is called "horn."

Interesting to see so much silkie feathering (around face) on a bird that is likely to have only one copy of the gene.

When I know the cross, I tend to refer to it that way: silkieXd'uccle, silkieXbrahma, silkieXaraucana, etc. When it get to the point of mama was silkieXd'uccle and papa was silkieXbrahma, it's too complicated to keep referring to in that manner.

Walnut comb, looks male, but don't place your bets yet.

 

[KattyKillFish]

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i would call that a mutt.

what a BEAUTIFUL bird!

looks like a male to me, but you might not be able to tell for sure until later. very pretty though! WOW!