Recent content by ChickenWisperer

Sussex have white skin/shanks, and so do Orps if I'm not mistaken. It looks like it, I'd hazard a guess there's no way to know until the bird matures and type is apparent.

#1 - This color exhibits almost exclusively in cockerels in my experience. There are blue and red EE hens of course, but I've never seen any with splashed red on the shoulders. Plus the comb is very red. Most certainly a cockerel. #2 - Hard to tell at this stage, but the comb looks large for...

#1 I think it's far more likely that this is a game cross, given the huge tail feathers - Color is off and comb is weird. #2 - Probably not black sex link - they have some red leakage in the hackle feathers. What color is the skin/soles of feet? #3 - Mutt. #4 - I see some weird coloration in the...

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Do you have a better picture? Showing the whole bird, including hackle feathers and the face. From what I can see of the saddle feathers I would lean towards pullet.

Cockerel.

Not sure about #1... can you get a better picture? Black legs are throwing me off. May be an australorp, sometimes their legs are darker. What colors are the soles? #2 guessing exchequer leghorn or ancona #3 is a mutt easter egger #4 is probably a RIR/production red

She's pure - her lacing is just quite thick. She's got very nice conformation for a hatchery bird, and all things considered, decent color - sometimes hatchery birds don't look anything like the breed they're supposed to be.

With young chicks, piercing, loud peeping is usually a sign of distress. It's like a kid yelling for attention - "Hey, I'm cold! I'm hot! I'm hungry! I don't feel good!" If it's not distressed peeping, loudness (in my experience) isn't a sign of gender. Many of my pullets were very, VERY loud...

Probably a RIR.

The bird is in no way an Ameraucana. It has a straight comb and no beard or muffs. Ameraucanas are a pure breed with an APA standard of perfection. They have a pea comb, muffs, beard, tail, and come in certain colors. They only lay blue eggs. An Easter Egger is a mutt bird with a blue...

Most of the BCM I've seen only have copper around the neck. However, the red/copper on a Black Sex Link usually extendsfarther... and the color of egg you described is right on par for the breed. As for the feathers - Marans come in two varieties, french and what I dub "American". French...