White chick with some black specks...What is this?

[RAREROO]

Part Silkie for sure and that color is from crossing with Dominant white.

So my vote is a Silkie X White Leghorn cross. White Leghorns are dominant white and nearly any other color you breed them to, you are going to get the same colored chicks, white with black dots. The commercial broiler breeder hens that I had were the same way. So that cross is going to be the most likely answer given the color and the dark skin from the silkie.

 

[Tala]

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That gets my vote too. Seeing it its OBVIOUSLY Silky, but it does appear to have dom white coloring.

 

[iheartchkns]

Thanks so much, Minniechickmama! That's very exciting to know. It's very possible the parents are both silkies, since the farm I got it from has lots of silkies among other breeds. It does not have any bare skin, so probably no turken in it. I appreciate your help with this.

 

[iheartchkns]

Thank you all! Very interesting to hear all the dominant genetics talk. I loved that part of biology in high school. Will be fun to see how this chick turns out. Sounds like the votes are for silkie with white leghorn feather coloring.

 

[barred-rocks-rock]

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That gets my vote too. Seeing it its OBVIOUSLY Silky, but it does appear to have dom white coloring.

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[Sonoran Silkies]

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Yes, you describe splash well, but the chick down doesn't match that displayed by splash chicks.

 

[iheartchkns]

I am wondering if this chick will have the "fluff" of a true silkie. It doesn't seem fluffy enough as a chick. Any ideas? Seems like it could end up with the feather texture of a leghorn.

 

[jossanne]

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If it's half silkie, it will have smooth feathers, not fluffy, silkie ones. I can't explain the genetics, but silkie is recessive, so if only one parent has silkie feathers, the chick won't have them. If you cross it to a silkie-feathered bird, about half of your chicks will have silkie feathers, half will have smooth. Is that clear as mud?

 

[RAREROO]

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Not necessarily with Leghorn coloring, leghorns are solid white, your chick will retain the black spots and be white with black spots as an adult. Also if would have the dark skin,It may have a bit of a crest, but it would be smooth feathered, not silkied, silkie feathering is recessive so all of the first generation for a silkied X non silkied cross, would be smooth feathered but would carry one copy of the silkie feathering gene and would produce half silkied and half non silkied when bred to a silkied bird. If bred to a non silkied bird, you would most likely lose this silkie gene unless by some odd change you paird the right two birds back up to one day end up with silkie birds popping back up. That's how these more rarer recessive colors of Javas like whites and auburn were lost as a true breeding color at one time, but the gene remained in the birds and somewhere along the line, the right two birds were bred together and these recessive colors popped back up and are now being worked on to get them to breed true. Once two recessive birds like an auburn Java is bred to another auburn Java, they will breed true and produce all Auburns just like if you were to end up hatching two silkied chicks from yours, if you cross silkied to silkied, you will get all silkied chicks.

 

[feather leg farms]

I can say she is atleast part silkie!