Worlds cutest mutant chicken

[laurenbeautyroo]

Hi
I wanted to show pictures of one of my chickens. Her name is Diedre. Her mum is a bantam with a bit of silkie I think and her dad was a bantam as well.

She is absolutely tiny compared to them.
She also has an extra toe on each foot!

 

[Chickens R Us]

Cute

 

[chooks4life]

She's lovely. Looks very sweet, too.

Is it just the pic angle, or does she lack the outermost toe's claw? Or is it just very tiny? One of my banty females has a miniature and upturned claw on each outer toe. She's an inbreed we were given.

I hate to offer anything negative, but when I have a silkie mix or any chicken really who has a pale face and undeveloped wattles/crest when it has adult feathering, I mark it down as a potential leucosis sufferer/carrier. This may not be the case with yours at all, but I've had to weed (cull) it out of my flock after getting those genes from a purebred breeder, so I'm hyper-suspicious. If she starts wasting or produces offspring that either don't make it to a year, or don't make it much further than a year, that may well be the cause. But I hope she doesn't. If all your poultry have pale faces then it's most likely dietary rather than anything severe.

Best wishes.

 

[scratch'n'peck]

She is cute. The extra toe can be from Silkie genetics.

 

[laurenbeautyroo]

Oh no hope she hasn't got leucosis. She never really grew which was strange. Some of my chickens have pale faces some don't! I'm scared. I will get a supplement for them.

 

[chooks4life]

Quote: I hope she doesn't either, and it's not too likely. There are a lot of causes of the symptoms I mentioned. A supplement should help a lot. All the best.