What is this mutation?

[shelbyw]

Hens take after their fathers and roosters take after their mothers. That is color, not personality, voice, or even comb. I have a pullet who has her father's colors, but is so her mother's daughter. She acts and talks like her mother, and has her mother's comb and eyes, but she has her father's long face.

I have a pullet that has the body and size of her mother and the dark black feathering of her dad. She acts just like her father and she has the little silkie floof on her head She is tiny just like her mom which is a partridge Cochin bantam.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

I have a pullet that has the body and size of her mother and the dark black feathering of her dad. She acts just like her father and she has the little silkie floof on her head She is tiny just like her mom which is a partridge Cochin bantam.

Last year I had a bantam set on some Silkie eggs. All five of the eggs hatched- two hens, three roos. The hens for their mother's feet and legs, and two of the roosters got their mother's feet. All three got their father's legs. One rooster got his father's feet. Three of the chicks got their father's comb. The other two took after both. I'm not sure which parent the tuffs came from, for both parents had those, but some of the chicks had more tuff than others. Now, all five chicks had the same mother and father, they were just all hatched out under a bantam hen and raised by that bantam's family.

This some pics of the chicks:

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Here is a video with their hatching mother @shelbyw :

Here is a video of them grown up some:

And this is a video of the rooster that I kept from the hatch ( I could only chose one for I would get overrun by roosters and complaining neighbors ) :

You could find some more videos, like one with their parents and their flock at my YouTube channel: Lacy Duckwing
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCJKU1mmWh_TZsuYzKeiYUXg/featured

 

[shelbyw]

Here is a video with their hatching mother @shelbyw :

Here is a video of them grown up some:

And this is a video of the rooster that I kept from the hatch ( I could only chose one for I would get overrun by roosters and complaining neighbors ) :

You could find some more videos, like one with their parents and their flock at my YouTube channel: Lacy Duckwing
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCJKU1mmWh_TZsuYzKeiYUXg/featured

Very beautiful chickens! I love silkies and I like being able to see them grow out