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[nurse_turtle]

This is some kind of silkie mix I believe. Do silkie's wing feathers normally look like this? Do they curve outward away from the body? Wonder what color this heathen might be? It's 8 days old. Reportedly in a pen with polish frizzle roo and silkie hen and other polish/frizzle hens.

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

It might be a frizzle (maybe a frizzled cochin?). Doesn't look anything like a silkie to me.

 

[Chiko]

Maybe a Silkie X Frizzle? I see it has 5 fingers... It is a sizzle.

 

[Nikkumz]

I second that......a sizzle...A frizzle silkie, because of then 5 toes and the way the feather grow backwards like that is called frizzle. Any breed can have frizzled feathers if its in thier genetics


Polish have 5 toes too though...so maybe polish frizzle

 

[nurse_turtle]

Well how cute. Sometimes mutts make the best pets. What color should i expect her to become?

 

[Chiko]

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Polish have 4 toes

Houdans, Favorelles, Dorkings and silkies have 5 toes though...

 

[Nikkumz]

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Polish have 4 toes

Houdans, Favorelles, Dorkings and silkies have 5 toes though...

I totally knew that lol, i was thinking of my houdan that kinda looked like that! LOL
I meant HOUDANS have 5 toes and for some reason alot of people this year have been hatching out houdans but being told they are polish...I ended up with about 6 of them!

 

[John Chicken GB]

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I think its a Silkie crossed with a spider ..... Spooky . lol

 

[nurse_turtle]

Yea...one of those furry brown wolf spiders! Ooooooooooowwwllll!!!

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

If he/she came from a pen of possible frizzled mothers and a frizzled dad, you're taking a chance on "frazzled" offspring, which is a genetic problem with frizzles wherein the offspring get two "doses" of the frizzle gene and it can cause feather breakage and other genetic problems... your chick doesn't look like a frazzle, but I would remove either the male frizzle or the female frizzles or frizzle gene carriers of one sex from the breeding pen just to be safe.