Hey everyone! I took some pics of my chicks today and was hoping that you could help me figure out what kind I have. Some of them I think I know, while others, I have no clue. On the Bantams, Polish and Mystery chicks, if you have a guess at sex, that'd be great. I've got a few to post, so thanks for your patience!
Eileen
This first is one of my two Polish, "Principesa" - no clue on sex or color type. S/he's lighter than the next one.
This is the other Polish. S/he is darker than the other on his/her back. Are they going to be different colors?
Next up is "Awesome", a brown Bantam.
The next three are my feather foot bantams. Here's the black one.
Feather Foot Brown Bantam.
Feather foot gold bantam
Gray Bantam (grey white black)
This is what I think is a Barred Rock Pullet.
I think this one is a gold sex-link
I think this is a Black sex-link pullet
This is a mystery gender non-bantam chicken named "Trooper"
This is a mystery gender non-bantam named "Farrah"
The following three all have brown points on the top of their heads - they are all pullets, but "Babyface" is much larger than the other two.
NVM, this is Babyface, I've only got one pic of the smaller one. She's the bigger girl.
Finally, a Rust Faced Black Pullet
Oh, forgot one and found the other pointed brown head one. First, the Black and White Pullet
Okay, here's that last brown point on the head pullet.
Even at the awkward semi-feathered stage, those are really cute chicks. I don't know what they are - except that one does look like a Barred Rock pullet. Farrah has very interesting markings on her head. I will be interested to hear what the experts think.
ok here's my 2 cents.I say the one you think is barred rock looks just like my barred rock chicks.The 2 polish look like white capped blue polish to me.the feather footed ones look like my cochins however are you sure they are bantam? they look a little bigger to me.My bantams usually have a lil more feathering on their feet at that age that also makes me wonder if they are standard size rather than bantam.eather way my guess is they are cochins.baby face and rust face look like E.E to me.those are the guesses i have. I dont know on the others. man oh man they are cute!!!!!!!! im so thankful to have a few silkie babys to worry about until my next chicks hatch or i would be at the farm and fleet looking for any lost and lonley chicks.My chick and egg orders are out of control this year lol im gonna be crazy when everything starts comming in giggle.
EE is Easter Egg? So is that an Araucana? I'm pretty sure the ones I said were bantams are bantams - I bought them out of a straight-run bantam bin and they are definitely smaller and growing much slower than the other bigger hens. They are a bit larger than my other bantams though.
An Easter Egger isn't necessarily an Ameraucauna, it just came from a blue or green egg.
Wow, mernmart....those look like nice healthy "teenagers". After all of your trials it looks like you will be ending up with such an interesting flock! I can't help you with the ID'ing. I only have Buff Brahams. But I'm very happy for you in regards to your obvious success!
Don't know any more than the others, but Easter Eggers are a genetic mixed-bag, fun-colored egg layers. Ameraucanas should lay a blue/ blue green egg and have tails, Araucanas should lay a blue egg and be rumpless. That's a very generalized explanation -3 distinct types though, EEs being generally cross-bred with the other two in some mysterious and unknowable fashion and having the genes to make the eggs an interesting color.
wow kool I guess what i had in florida hen were E.E the ones i have now lay greens.Its going to be so fun watching your chicks grow.
Bump...
So are they too young to identify do you think? Also, when can I put them out in the coop? We've got between 40-70 degree weather right now, and the birds are about a month old. Some are feathered really well (though not their heads completely yet) and the others are still probably too fluffy to go outside. We'd keep them in the coop for a bit once they get out there and then open up the yard so they can forage when they're ready for real outside time. I'm getting a lot of conflicted info. Some say one month, some say two. In either case, I may at least move the brooder out of our laundry room and put it out there with the heat lamp over the brooder so they can stay warm. What do you think?
Ei
I'm one that votes for outside... Especially if you can provide supplemental heat for them out there. The sunshine and foraging is soo good for them!
I sooo wish I had power to the coop outside.. Maby this summer I can swing that..
Good luck with your babiez. :)
Your Polish both look like white crested blue Polish to me, with the second one being a little darker blue. They kind of look like roos to me right now because their crests kind of look a little swept back more than poofing forward, but it's really hard to say at that age.
The one you are calling a grey bantam does look like a roo based on comb development so far. It is also either lavender or blue splash.
The possible gold sex linked appears to have slightly frizzled feathers perhaps? They are not lying as flat as I would expect.
Sometimes the rust faced birds come out with gold lacing.
The last one sort of looks like a Welsummer to me.
I'm going to confess that some of the ones you call pullets have a surprising amount of comb development in my opinion, but I could be wrong.
What hatchery did you get them from - might help us narrow down on breeds!
Claire
I like to get my chicks out as soon as i can too.They need more room to run around.I give them a heat lamp and set them up in a puppy play pen inside the building for a while.We have a problem with hawks taking our small chickens so i keep them in a while.
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Thanks for the replies. I got most of them at the feed store, and only "Farrah" and "Trooper" from McMurray. Bummer if both of the cresteds are boys. :( We just finished up the coop today, so tomorrow, our guineas will go out there, because they are very large already, and quite frankly, stink to high heavens! I don't think any of the birds are frizzled, but I'll keep an eye out for that - that would be a treat! I'll look up those other names too so I can get a look at the adult versions!
Their combs are coming in rather quickly - let's hope that's not indicative of them being boys, because aside from the bantams, the two from McMurray and the cresteds, they're all supposed to be girls.
Where's Catscan....she's the expert....
YO CATSCAN!! Bring your expertise over here!!
Sheesh! (Wiping the doughnut crumbs from her face) It is still early here....
I can't tell from the pictures....but my experience with comb development is, it is highly age and breed (strain) related. Which is to say with, say Seramas (I have a few of those, you know), the little boys sprout combs quite quickly and the little girls appear nearly combless for a long time. But in other breeds, say New Hampshires, early comb development is not necessarily indicative of the sex. I have had several RIR and now a New Hampshire, where the pullets developed prominent and reddish combs very early, but then as they grew the combs seemed to stop growing and turn pale.
Most confusing.
So anyway, I think by 6 weeks the difference should be clear. If you have two groups of the same breed with single combs, and one group grows large combs, while another doesn't, then the former are probably roos and the second pullets. But I would link it with secondary characteristics like bigger, stockier legs and feet for boys and a general rowdiness (although there are quite boys too).
Now, aren't you sorry you woke me up?
LOL
Doughnuts and Wren in the same thread...OHHHH heaven.
Catscan wrote;"So anyway, I think by 6 weeks the difference should be clear"
Oh, be still, my heart. This may be very good news. I have 4 chicks that are Mamma hatched. One hatched 1/2/2010, and the other three 1/21/2010. The first is a Turken/Bantam Cochin, the other three EE's, one being NN. Obviously, I can't check the neck feathering on the NN chicks, but the other two don't seem to have "pointy" feathers there, or saddles. Too early to tell? But their combs all seem very small and pale. Unfortunately, I do seem to remember something about peacombs and three rows, so I will go check better *G*. I do know that when my current EE's were babies, I couldn't tell anything, but they WERE all suposed to be female. Not.
See, I have way too many roos, but I would really like to keep all four of these.
Doughnuts??? Where?????
