Rural Gardening: 11 day old chicks fighting!, 0 by Catscan

Catscan wrote:
MollyD: Looking at the Ideal Catalogue--the chicks do look very yellow, while the RIR are definitely darker, reddish brown. NH were developed from RIR, but I don't think they are as dark red as adults. So maybe you are okay.

My 2 Welsummer pullets from Meyer turned into a pullet and a roo--but TF has claimed the roo as soon as we can figure out how to send it. He is a very quiet bird--just goes off by himself. But I can't stress enough how HUGE he is. He was a big chick and he is an enormous 11 week old. The pullet is large too, but just a nice big girl. I think the Meyers Welsummers are pretty nice. Have you checked them? They do that special (pricey) small order of 6 or more with no extra roos.

Here is Peccorino (Pecky) the Welsummer roo next to a RIR pullet (?). The Welly pullet, Fontina, is in the foreground with a Delaware tail cutting into her.