Batch of mix birds. What do we have?

Birdmanfarms · Feb 19, 2016

Back in December we got a batch of 25 birds from Strombergs hatchery. One little bird unfortunately didn't make it through the mail. And now 11 weeks later we have 20 very healthy baby birds. Most of the birds were black but 9 of them were a lighter gray. Here is a picture of them at day 5.

Here they are only four days later already starting to develop a little wing feathers.

Chicken Girl1 · Feb 20, 2016

Do you know what selection of breeds they offer? It would help narrow it down.

CoopDeDoo · Feb 20, 2016

Birdmanfarms said:
Back in December we got a batch of 25 birds from Strombergs hatchery. One little bird unfortunately didn't make it through the mail. And now 11 weeks later we have 20 very healthy baby birds. Most of the birds were black but 9 of them were a lighter gray. Here is a picture of them at day 5.

Here they are only four days later already starting to develop a little wing feathers.

Do you have current photos by chance? Did you purchase one of their layer mixes specials(brown layers, rare layers, etc)? They "could" all be the same breed but different colors or possibly BBS (blue/black/splash).

donrae · Feb 20, 2016

It's much easier to ID birds at 11 weeks than as chicks. Current pics would be best.

KeyFlock · Feb 20, 2016

Yep. It would be much easier to tell now.

Birdmanfarms · Feb 20, 2016

Here is a few recent pictures. From what I can spot we have free different birds but I'll look to the experts for help.

A few are like this.

Some are lighter more blue/grey.

And the majority of them are iridescent black with single combs and white pads to their feet.

keesmom · Feb 20, 2016

The blue rose combed ones are definitely blue Wyandottes. The black ones could be Minorcas. They look too lean to be either black Giants or Austrolorps.

junebuggena · Feb 20, 2016

keesmom said:
The blue rose combed ones are definitely blue Wyandottes. The black ones could be Minorcas. They look too lean to be either black Giants or Austrolorps.

The skin color is all wrong for Wyandottes, though. The hatchery really needs to clean up it's breeding practices.

drumstick diva · Feb 20, 2016

agree with keesmom and juneguggena

donrae · Feb 20, 2016

I agree, I don't see what they could be but Wyandottes. That white/pink skin is all wrong, though, not sure what's up with that. I thought Stromberg's had a better reputation than that.

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