[Casey76]

The male/female birds are known as "gyandromorphs"

It is possible that your serama is also a gyandromorph as the split is almost 50/50.

It would be interesting to see how s/he grow up to be like!

[OpiumEater]

A chick could be half normal and half silkie feathered...... as in exactly half???

I have a little serama which is exactly that.... even its tail is half and half...



I reckon it must be pretty rare!!!

WOW  :blink: I Want One!!! 

[LittleRedHen]

I've never seen anything like that before in my entire life! :blink:

[Chookiechook]

Still keep looking at her and not believing what I see.....

Practial poultry want to do a bit about her.. not sure how much.... maybe just a pic   But still great to think she is so rare

Keep worrying now that I will go and find Arfur dead for some reason

[ManicMum]

That's one fascinating chick!  Most local papers love stories like that (and even the nationals, sometimes - there was a story recently about the cat with the loudest purr...) so do try giving them a call.

And for your records (and our edification) please keep taking updated piccies!

[Lindeggs]

Definitely keep taking piccies - I would love to see her from different angles too, and as she grows it will be really fascinating to see her facial features.  Also do you know who the parents are?  Photos of the parents could be really interesting so as she grows we can speculate on whether she's looking more like her Mum or her Dad.

As for media, definitely go ahead with the Practical Poultry article first.  Then once it's published you can show it to more general media and see if they want to do an item.  It means Practical Poultry will have done the leg-work and explained all the concepts in simple language that non-specialist journalists will be a ble to follow.

That's often the route a news story takes - it gets published in a specialist journal then later (sometimes ages later) it gets into the general media.  Then everyone who already knows about it rolls their eyes and says "that's old news!"     

[Carla]

That is amazing!! I've emailed my chicken breeder friend in Australia about her, so she's now world famous 

[New shoot]

I'm trying to imagine how that chick is going to look fully feathered with 1 side all neat flat lying feathers and 1 side all fluffy silkie   

Can't wait to see pics of it in a few weeks 

[Sassy]

I would try your local paper they like 'easy' stories, ie ready made and that is what you have.

[Chookiechook]

My brain is hurting from looking at the genetics of this ....... I am only just at the level of understanding the frizzle gene!!!