What breed is my little Ebony?

ChickenPeep

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I hatched this little guy/girl about 3-4 weeks ago. His/her name is Ebony. I thought it was just a black silkie like all the others because it has feathered feet and black skin. But thes it started growing regular feathers, not silkie feathers. She (lets just call it a she for now
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) Is completely black except for a little brown 'dusting' at the tips of some feathers. Any ideas? She's only 3 & 1/2 weeks old so i don't know if you can tell the gender yet..... But what breed?!?

If you need any more pics, feel free to ask!
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She is getting little pin feathers under her chin. You can kinda see it in this pic, but not much. Could that be a beard? Just throwing out possibilities!
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~UPDATE~
While for a while it was deided that Miss Ebony was a Silkie- D'uccle cross, that is not true. I recently visited the woman that gave us her egg and asked her if she had any D'uccles. She did have a few, but they were not in the same pen as the silkies, and were red and black. She told me that Ebony is atually a Americauna - Silkie cross! What do you think about that? I was honestly a bit shocked because most people (Including me) were sure she was a D'uccle.
Here's Ebony now.





She is quite the snuggler!


 
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Hmm, she has the skin coloring of a silkie, and the feathered legs, and she has silkie eyes. I'm betting she's a mix......Very cute!
 
looks silkie mix...by the looks of it it has black skin,plus the poof spot on its head, then the heavy feathered feet could come from a cochin, d'uccle, or any other feather footed breed.
 
My silkie d'uccle crosses looked like that when they feathered out: very fringy around the edges, but hard feathered, not silkied. Was the hen a silkie? Do you know what she could have crossed with?
 

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