Silkie & bantam cochin beak color & toes/toenails

[ShysCreations]

Does the standard call for dark beaks on all silkies? This pullet has some white in her beak

she has some at the tip and more on the other side
This mottled cochin hen had a yellow beak with black spotting in it, is it a DQ?

What beak colors are allowed in cochins?

I've seen cochin & silkie chicks with the outside toe (is it the 3rd toe?) or toenail missing. It must be a DQ for shows. I had purchased online some cochins, only to examine them closer, they were missing the 3rd toes. Thanks to experience, I know to ask specifically about it or view the bird in person.

 

[pipermark]

The beak color being off a little would most likely be a point deduction, missing a toe is a DQ

PS pretty silkie SQ or not.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

However missing a toenail is a very small point deduction.

I am confused about saying hte 3rd toe is missing, though. Silkies have 5 toes, and it is the 5th that is absent when they are missing a toe.

As for cochins--they should have 4 toes. Barring injury, I've never heard of a 4-toed breed with too few toes.

 

[ShysCreations]

Thank you for the help, I understand the beak color is points deducted but not a DQ.
As for toes, what I've seen in some new hatchlings in eggs from several sources both cochin & silkie... is a portion of a toe missing. Its short or stunted and doesn't have the toenail.
To describe where I see it missing on silkies-- a normal silkie foot has 3 toes forward and the 2 back. The one missing is part of the 3 and it is the toe pointing out toward the sides of the body. Say using a human's right hand as example: the thumb & pointer finger would face back then of the 3 in front...it would be the pinkie missing.

A picture showing the feet will say alot and I'll try to find one tonight.

I thought it may have been injury when I bought the adult cochin hens missing part of the outside toe on each foot but then I saw hatchlings with it, new out of the egg before damage could occur.

 

[ShysCreations]

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[Sonoran Silkies]

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Very different than I've encountered before. Sometimes the 4th toe is short and others the 5th toe is missing.

 

[ShysCreations]

Here is the pic of a 2 week old cochin chick with a shortened toe w/ no nail, foot on right side of pic.

It is the toe on the far right in the pic, comparing it to the same on the other foot its definitely smaller, as if missing a joint. The silkies I've seen had even shorter ones, I just don't have one at the moment for a pic.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Your cochin is a splash, not mottled. Pretty!

 

[ShysCreations]

HappyMtn, its tough to tell in the pic of the cochin with the sun on her. She was a light blue mottled, with a very faded blue. Unfortunately, we lost her earlier this summer