He is not "well bred", he doesn't appear to have a vaulted skull, just crest feathers. He is beardless(unless that's just pecked out), has a red-ish comb, and doesn't appear to have feathered legs. If he is a cross, both parents had to have carried the silkied gene, as it is recessive. You cant breed a RIR and a silkie and get silkied chicks, you would have to breed the offspring together or to a silkie to get some silkied chicks.
this is a show quality silkie, meaning it very closely meets, or meets, the standard of the breed
picture from feathersite.com
(copied from another post here on BYC)
Vaulted Skulls are common in Silkies and in Polish, Silkie with skulls vaults are more open with less protection to the brain where as with a Polish skull vaults is fully or near fully enclosed skull vault. It stands to reason that this is due to this trait being in the Polish for much longer than other breeds that have a more "open" vault.
The skull vault
(as in a Polish) gives more stability to the crest as well as shape, otherwise birds with large crests often have crests that flop over to one side or the other.
A - Is a Vaulted Skull.
B - Is a Non-vaulted Skull
