What is this? I want one

[math ace]

If you just like the coloring of the hen,

try searching for a BLACK TAILED BUFF MARANS

 

[MissJenny]

Here's one with a crest -- does the rest of the face look like this? http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/swedish-flower-hens/

 

[Crickett B]

$399.00 a pair????

wow!!!

 

[MissJenny]

Perhaps we're raising the wrong kind of chickens...

It's got a crest... whatever else it has or hasn't... I don't know -- that's for someone with a sharper eye than mine.

Jenny

 

[De]

I would say silkie/mix...if you look at the chicks some look like they have 5 toes....but some of your silkie/mixes make good moms too..
I have some and they love to be moms just like the silkie do....

 

[Illia]

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Silkie feathering, like you see on silkies, is recessive. Once you cross something to a Silkie, just once, you lose that feathering and go right back to normal.



Again, black tailed buff Marans have a similar color, but do not have dark pigment, five toes, a crest, pale earlobes, and . . . whatever comb that is. Certainly not a single comb.


Silkies, however, in the second generation of crossing out and even third gen out, produce five toes, dark pigment, black/grey legs, a small crest, pale or white earlobes, and an odd cushion, pea, or walnut looking comb like this bird.

Also, there are Buff Silkies. And crossing another color to buff creates the black in the tail like this hen has.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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Silkie feathering, like you see on silkies, is recessive. Once you cross something to a Silkie, just once, you lose that feathering and go right back to normal.



Again, black tailed buff Marans have a similar color, but do not have dark pigment, five toes, a crest, pale earlobes, and . . . whatever comb that is. Certainly not a single comb.


Silkies, however, in the second generation of crossing out and even third gen out, produce five toes, dark pigment, black/grey legs, a small crest, pale or white earlobes, and an odd cushion, pea, or walnut looking comb like this bird.

Also, there are Buff Silkies. And crossing another color to buff creates the black in the tail like this hen has.

Interesting but don't showgirls have the silkie feathering?

 

[Illia]

Yes, because they've been selectively bred to have the Silkied feathering. The naked neck is a dominant trait, so if you breed a Turken to a Silkie, you get a normal looking Silkie-like chicken with a naked neck. . . Normal feathering. Breed it back to the Silkie, you get 50% chance of Silkied feathers, and 50% chance of Naked Neck. Breed the 25% chance in there of a naked necked, Silkied chick and go from there. . .

 

[superchemicalgirl]

You are so smart and helpful, thank you!

Now this makes me slightly sad that I turned down a red colored silkie rooster last month.