What will these chicks look like?

agree- looks like your chicks are very good eaters.

junebuggena said:

Most likely.

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Thank you. For the white and black stripped ones, do you have an idea of what they would look like as adults? You said that it's basically the same fene combination as the brown striped ones, which from my research seems to give partridge coloured chickens, but I can't imagine the white and black ones turning brown. I also got a new colour this morning. I love the way it looks, so I'm hoping it's a girl.




Edit: The colour doesn't really show up well in the pictures. She's golden, with darker gold stripes. Not brownish as it seems in the picture.

UrbanSilkies said:

Thank you. For the white and black stripped ones, do you have an idea of what they would look like as adults? You said that it's basically the same fene combination as the brown striped ones, which from my research seems to give partridge coloured chickens, but I can't imagine the white and black ones turning brown. I also got a new colour this morning. I love the way it looks, so I'm hoping it's a girl.




Edit: The colour doesn't really show up well in the pictures. She's golden, with darker gold stripes. Not brownish as it seems in the picture.

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The white with striping should turn out to be a silver partridge type coloring. They might end up looking similar to the coloring on Dark Brahmas or Silver Penciled Rocks.
The gold with darker stripes might end up looking like a Production Red.

drumstick diva said:

agree-  looks like your chicks are very good eaters.

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Do you mean because they are so fluffy/chubby? They are only a couple hours old in the pictures so they hadn't actually eaten yet, but now they are eating a ton!

junebuggena said:

The white with striping should turn out to be a silver partridge type coloring. They might end up looking similar to the coloring on Dark Brahmas or Silver Penciled Rocks.
The gold with darker stripes might end up looking like a Production Red.

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I thought it might be something like that. I do hope that the golden turns out looking special. Anyways, thank you so much for your help!

UrbanSilkies said:

Thank you I'm surprised that there are so many colours. I was expecting them to all be the same colour.

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my hens were also a lot of different colors .

myhen7coop said:

my hens were also a lot of different colors .

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I bet they are pretty!

The chicks are only 3 days old, but so far out of the white ones, 2 seem pure white, one now has wings that are light yellow, and one is starting to get tiny little tail feathers that seem black and white. Out of the brown + stripped, most seem like a partridge chick would, but one has wing feathers that are alternating stripes of yellow and brown. For the white + stripped, one has wings that are alternating stripes of white and black, the other looks more like the pictures I saw of silver pencilled chicks. They golden + stripped one looks like she might be a wheaten looking chicken. Her wings look yellow.

They grow so fast! 11 out of the 15 already have pin feathers at the tail. From what I've read, people say that girls generally get tail feathers sooner, so I'm hoping they are indeed girls.

Does this look like it could be a silver pencilled chick? I can't find pictures of them when they are this young.

UrbanSilkies said:

Does this look like it could be a silver pencilled chick? I can't find pictures of them when they are this young.

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Yes, that's juvenile silver partridge coloring.

Just as a little update, here are what they look like now. 3 of white ones ended up being white with brown patches on wings. The 4th turned out looking like a Delaware pullet. The light brown ended up mostly cream/beige with light brown. One of the chicks that looked to be a silver partridge ended up looking like a Delaware that has random laced feathers. I gave the other one who had more penciling away, so I'm not sure how she turned out. The darker chipmunks ended up being brown with either grey or black penciling and one brown with black around the neck and white dots on his chest. Another turned multicolour. She has dots of black, dark brown, white, with a base colour of warm brown. We also had a barred brown rooster. We had 10 pullets out of 15 chicks.