Silkie thread!

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Yes, there are six nails on one foot. It is a DQ in showing but not everyone shows their birds and I'm sure this will be a wonderful pet...just a lovely baby! It happens. Chicks hatched from several generations of show silkies can still produce a six toed chick every now and then. It's just something that everyone has to deal with....same with the rare single comb.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

So I'm not crazy (well, not about this anyway!). I thought the only silkie options were 4 toes or 5 toes. I have never heard of 6 toes. Very cool!

That salmon chick is fabulous. I LOVE the striations in the crest. Please post pics as it grows. I'd love to see what it turns into.

 

[jen5680]

I got a bowl full of babies!!! LOL!!

 

[chickenboy21]

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I will definatley continue to post pictures as it grows.... to bad it has 6 toes though

 

[rilly10]

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Soooo cute! Are they all lavenders?

 

[jen5680]

No they aren't all lavs. Some are light blue and one is a partr and I think a few whites.
I collected a bunch of eggs and wasn't going to incubate any more so I didnt write
what color they were on the eggs. I jsut kept putting them in a bowl thinking I was going
to scramble them and feed them back to the birds but I jsut couldn't stand it so I put them
in the bator thinking not many would hatch bc some of them were pretty old and all of them
hatched but i think 2. They died but were developed all the way. I hate when that happens!
SO that shoots down the thought of eggs needing to be pretty fresh to bate !! Some of these
were several weeks old and i never turned them or anything! That is while they were jsut
sitting around.

 

[silkieluver_07]

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I will definatley continue to post pictures as it grows.... to bad it has 6 toes though

Plus we need to realize with the new salmon coloring being developed that alot of genes are into play here. Still a beautiful chick though, and will make a great pet

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Brody's Broodello :

JustAChickenLittle&More :

The one they are calling partridge actually looks like its a frizzle. Cochin and silkie.

If you are talking about the Chick's that Josh has, there is not frizzle or cochin in them, they are out of Pure show silkies, 100%!​

Doesn't look frizzled to me, and frizzling can come from ANY breed, not just cochin. Anyways, it looks pure silkie, IMO.​

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Polydactyly can have a lot of different expressions. Lobster claw toes are fairly common. I once had a special needs bird (my son fell in love with her in someone else's coop) who literally had a 2nd set of toes growing atop one of her feet. Walking was somewhat difficult for her, so I eventually rehomed her to someone who only had a very few birds and could keep a closer eye on her. Anyways, this was an extreme example opf polydactylism, and is documented by Hutt and others. I've had 10 toes birds who had 4 toes on one foot and 6 on the other.

 

[Brody's Broodello]

Just to clean up any confusion on the Salmon color silkies. They were produced from PURE silkie breedings, there was no outcrossing to another breed to develope them. No Frizzle, No Cochin and especially Faverolle. The term Salmon refers to the coloring & pattern of the bird.There are many colors of silkies that can be developed with what is currently out there without crossing into the mixed breed world. I have worked out the genetics via the Chicken Calculator & with Sigrid herself, giving full disclosure of the genetics behind them for 3 generations to develope this color in this line of Silkies. As far as the extra nail on the toe, with the poly gene that is in Silkies, you can and if you breed long enough, find that you will not get the perfect 5 toes always even if the parents are Grand Champion birds. I hatch several hundred chicks a year and can say that the amount with "odd" toes etc are below 10%. It was just unlucky that the chick that hatched out for Josh had an extra nail.