Silkie Cross?

[OneShotHunter]

Hi! I'm hand-raising my very first chick, a silkie. It's doing quite well, and aproaching one week old. It's quite healthy, chirpy, and alert. I think it might be a silkie cross. Don't silkies have the walnut combs, the wrinkly lump of flesh on their forhead? Because my chick doesn't have it. It has a regular looking comb, like the regular other breed chicks I've seen. Does this mean it's a cross, or a hen, or do I just not know the first thing about chickens?

ETA: It has the silkie fluffy feathers, that look more like fur than feathers.

 

[ramirezframing]

all chicks have that type of look when young, it will be a few weeks before you can see the feathers or silkie fluff. how many toes and what color of skin? But some silkies come off with a single comb. its not a wanted trait for breeding but is fine in pets. Do you have some other chicks with it?

 

[OneShotHunter]

No, he is alone for now. (The ducks at a friend's house hatched him, and they would have taken him to the water and pushed him and he would've drowned so I had to take him. When the ducks hatch another chick, it'll have a friend)

His skin is white. (Pulled the feathers aside on his wing) He has four toes. (Counting his dew toe, or spur, or whatever you call it in chickens)

 

[ramirezframing]

than maybe its a cochin? what color are the legs? He needs a friend so he dont get lonely they do better in trios (incease one dies theres still 2)

 

[OneShotHunter]

It's leg's are yellow and black, with cute white toenails.

 

[OneShotHunter]

I was holding it today, and noticed that it's losing the fuzz around it's wing tips, and getting wing feathers! Does that mean it's not a silkie if it has sleek wing feathers and no fuzz there, or is it just part of maturity, or am I just proving I don't know a thing about chickens?

 

[hdowden]

pics would really help

 

[OneShotHunter]

I'll try to get some tomorrow. Thank you for all your help.

 

[ramirezframing]

well its not sounding like a pure silkie but silkie wing feathers can be shredded (ripped looking) or normal its the body feathers that are fuzzy