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They both look about the same color to me. That could mean my screen is not showing the image accurately. Or it could mean they are both actually white. Or it could mean that khaki looks very similar to white, and I haven't learned to recognize the differences. I really don't know which it is...

I think that I don't have enough experience with Khaki to say anything very useful.

If the chick has yellow skin, neither parent is PURE for white skin. Both parents might show white skin, but they must both carry the recessive gene for yellow skin, or the chick couldn't have it.

Is that the oddball? Those feet really darkened up!

So that would mean Bigfoot has only one copy of the vulture hocks gene, and one copy of not-vulture hocks. He could sire a chick with vulture hocks or without them. So as a possible father of the oddball chick, I don't think we can rule him out, but we can't prove he is either. That leaves us...

How can Bigfoot have two copies of the Vulture Hocks gene, if one of his parents is a Silkie? Everything I can find about Silkies says they are not allowed to have Vulture Hocks, and are disqualified in a show if they do have them. So if the Silkie has no Vulture Hocks gene, then Bigfoot could...

I think that Silkie mother must have the genes for both fibro and not-fibro, and the oddball chick got the not-fibro from the mother and also from its father.

Have you gotten Silkie-mixes that show fibro? If yes, then it shows fibro is dominant gene. And if fibro is dominant, then a chicken that shows fibro can sometimes carry not-fibro. When two such chickens are bred together, about 1/4 of their chicks would show not-fibro. But if you breed a...

I think the toes are darkening up a bit. So she probably has "dark" skin (not light), just not the fibromelanosis. If I recall correctly, fibromelanosis is caused by a dominant gene. So both parents could show it but carry the gene for non-fibro, which lets them produce some chicks like this one.

Do any of those possible fathers have light skin? If so, that's probably the one who sired the oddball chick. If none have light skin, how long has it been since any hen had contact with any light-skinned rooster? I see that Fluffy is white. Do you know whether she's got dominant or recessive...

I don't yet have any new thoughts on the oddball silkie. Did you say the feathers are silked? I'm not good at recognizing silkie vs. normal feathers at this age.

I'll be curious to see whether it grows silkie-type feathers or normal feathers. And whether the feet get darker over the next few weeks. I can think of a couple genetic explanations for what is going on, but those two points will probably make it much clearer.

In that case, I don't see any obvious reason to pick one over the other.

Huh? 5 toes vs. 12 toes? I'm guessing that means Scaredy has 5 toes per foot, for a total of 10, and 007 would have 6 toes per foot for a total of 12. It sounds like Scaredy has the better comb and the better toe count, for this project. Body type might be even more important, but I don't...

Is Dun the same gene that causes the color called Fawn? Ideal Poultry has had that in Old English Game Bantams for some years now: https://www.idealpoultry.com/product/1587/106 color "Fawn Silver Duckwing" I don't know what other hatcheries may have what varieties available, but I've kept an...

You might have trouble getting the correct black skin on barred Silkies, just like the Ameraucana breeders have. Apparently barring is closely linked to the gene for light skin, so they tend to be inherited together.

Typo in one of those numbers? 0.18 pounds of gain is a little less than 3 ounces.

Were you able to check for silkie-type feathers? Or are they still too young for that? I'm sure you've seen the many threads about mis-labeled chicks at TSC... :D

Even two or three days can be enough to have MOST chicks sired by the new rooster, but more days make it more likely, and it takes 3 weeks or more to be completely positive. Someone did studies decades ago and found a few eggs could be fertile 3 weeks after the last mating, and we see...

Sounds good to me. I'm sure he'll taste good :thumbsup