Three months ago i was given two baby chicks by my kind neighbours who felt sorry for the loss of my beautiful rooster. They went out to get me "Silkies" because they know how much I love them but.....One is definately a Silkie (partridge) but the other that "apparently" came from the same hen...remember, I wasn't there...is definately NOT a "pure" silkie.
She is double the size, has pink skin, white with a splash of grey/black sporadically throughout her feathers, has a small "top not" and feather feet.
Any idea what is going on here?
Oh yeah...she is extremely intellagent...extremely!
2006-11-08 14:24:18 · 9 answers · asked by twistedkitty15 2 in Pets ➔ Birds
Flamingo....
2006-11-08 14:28:56 · answer #1 · answered by Duke 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not to be sick or anything, but when a hen mates, she can retain a rooster's "sample" for nearly a month. So if the hen was allowed to roam freely with other roosters and then was confined to just one rooster, it is possible that the hen received two or more rooster "samples" and used them randomly. It's very hard to bring about the gene for pink skin in silkies. I'd say it's more likely that one of your chicks was sired by another rooster and is taking after its father.
2006-11-09 11:42:19 · answer #2 · answered by Jenn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you put this in the Jokes and Riddle category? By the way Silkies are very cute. I am not an expert, but have chickens, roosters, geese and ducks. My neighbor has a brilliant _ock that has what looks like mukluks as legs. All of my (what I thought were just animals) run to the gate when I go to work and come home. A few even want their heads scratched! Shocking but the chickens can not wait for the scratching, a couple will even fly into the car! Serious. My dog, (boxers, symoinds and German shepherds do not touch them and all want attention.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkie_(chicken)
If this is a joke please add to your details. Love all my pets.
2006-11-09 04:57:46 · answer #3 · answered by lin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just like any animal there can be throwbacks. An animal born with different marks and such. It could also be because another rooster mated with the hen. Maybe like cats, chickens can have chicks that have more than one father. A throwback is not a bad thing. I had a mixed breed cat I got from the pound and she had a litter that had one siamese and the rest were like her. The chick could have also gotten mixed up with someone elses chicks. They all look alike when they are chicks. Kind of like the story of how the ugly duckling didn't look like the ducks and ended up being a swan.
2006-11-08 14:31:16 · answer #4 · answered by Serinity4u2find 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like you got a silkie bantam cross. the feathered feet are a trait of bantams only as far as i know.
2006-11-12 06:02:06 · answer #5 · answered by mrsmooseman3 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah i know exacty whats goin on here! that momma hen is a hussie
2006-11-08 14:35:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe an alien laid the egg she was hatched from LOL
2006-11-08 14:29:03 · answer #7 · answered by TRUE GRIT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they had different roosters for fathers most likely...
2006-11-08 17:01:58 · answer #8 · answered by J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there just smart
2006-11-08 14:25:48 · answer #9 · answered by Kelly Bundy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋