Silkie hybrid???

[Cdice54]

I got these chicks from a breeder that likely had hybrids, but she thought were pure silkies. They are 2 weeks now and look to be growing in normal feathers. They have black skin and five toes. One has the characteristic dome head. Are they pure silkies or hybrids? They are already double the size of the white silkie chick and always push the smaller chick away from the food.

 

[Chicken-lovebirdchihuahua]

Yes that looks like a hybrid or a back to the roots silkie sometimes they can go back to their chicken roots and are purebred silkies with regular feathers but it pretty uncommon for there to be two but you never know there’s no reall way to tell when they are so little chicks it looks like an Easter Egger Silkie mix to me! Good luck hope they’re beautiful chickens I’m sure they will be!

 

[Sneebsey]

For the chick to have normal feathers, one parent had to be smooth feathered. Silkies feathering is recessive and requires two copies to express. A bird with only one copy will not have silkie feathering.

 

[Table4Six]

What cute chicks!
They look like sizzles to me, which are frizzled bantam Cochins x Silkies. I think I see some frizzled feathers coming in on their wings and feet. If you their pullets you'll find out that they love going broody and being mommas.

 

[The Moonshiner]

a back to the roots silkie sometimes they can go back to their chicken roots and are purebred silkies with regular feathers

There is no truth to this statement. Don't be lead into believing this.
Funny that the belief that this occurs never came up until years into the silkie Xs cochin sizzle projects became popular.
Now all of a sudden there's a mysterious occurrence that silkies experience a spontaneous gene mutation that takes them back 1,000 years to their normal feathered roots.
Its hype. There are better odds of them experiencing spontaneous combustion then this spontaneous gene mutations back to their roots.

 

[NNYchick]

I would talk to the breeder she maybe just mixing breeds of chickens but she may also be breeding sizzles. A sizzle is crossing a Silkie with usually Cochin. Then you selectively breed the offspring back to Silkie over many generations you get birds with all the characteristics of a Silkie except feather type. One of my favorite things about smooth sizzles is you are able to see the laceing and pattern of certain colors that are hidden with the Silkie feathers. Here is a picture of some sizzle eggs I hatched. The top two are smooth sizzles the bottom are Silkie feathered at 2 weeks old.

This is the different feathering types (I didn’t make this a sizzle breeder did)

Here is one of my smooth sizzles at 4 weeks

 

[sourland]

They are cross breds.

 

[Cdice54]

Thanks everyone!
She said she has a couple of salmon faverolle hens in with some of the silkies. So will they look more like partridge colored faverolles grown up? Or will they look like the silkies pictured with smooth feathers but frizzled?

Anyone have a similar combo chicken? Will they be able to fly? I’m concerned about them flying up and over our 6 foot fence when they’re older.