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24 nine-day-old chicks from assortment! (Lots of images, might be a long load)

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These are all my chicks from a McMurray 'rarest of rare' assortment (technically their 'ornamental layer' sexed assortment, but I don't think I got any crested birds, and the rest are from the RoR). I have my suspicions about their breeds, but I'm new to this... so please, let me know what you think!

 

Any help is appreciated. Feel free to skip around and only guess for a few.

 

(Also, since I'm new, please let me know if I'm handing them incorrectly or if there seems to be anything wrong with them.)

 

Thanks!

 

Possible RoR assortment breeds:

 

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Sumatras, Dominiques, Golden Laced and Silver Penciled Wyandottes, Silver, Golden, Buff Laced, and White Polish, Golden Campines, Golden Penciled Hamburgs, Silver Penciled Rocks, Partridge, Black, Buff, Blue, & Silver Laced and White Cochins, Araucanas, Dark and Buff Brahmas, Phoenix, Fayoumis, Salmon Faverolles, W. L. Red Cornish, Lakenvelders, Black and White Langshans, Red Caps, Silver Leghorns, Crevecoeurs, Silver Gray Dorkings, Modern BB Red Games, Sultans, Buttercups, & Spanish

 

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#1 ^ (keesmom/akcountrygrrl: EE)

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#2 ^ - (zeely: Ancona/Lakenvelder? jarvis: Langshan/Sumatra? keesmom: Sumatra? akcountrygrrl: Spanish?)

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#3 ^ - (zeely: Ancona/Lakenvelder? jarvis: Langshan? keesmom: Sumatra? akcountrygrrl: Spanish?)

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#4 ^ (keesmom: Black Cochin/Langshan; akcountrygrrl: Cochin)

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#5 ^ (jarvis/keesmom/akcountrygrrl: Dominique; alaskanchicken: Cuckoo Maran; BlazeJester: Silver pencilled Rock)

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#6 ^ (keesmom/akcountrygrrl: EE)

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#7 ^ (alaskanchicken: Buff Brahma; keesmom: Gold laced Wyandotte; akcountrygrrl: EE)

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#8 ^ - Partridge Cochin

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#9 ^ - Black Cochin (keesmom: or Langshan)

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#10 ^ (keesmom/akcountrygrrl: EE)

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#11 ^ - Buff Cochin)

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#12 ^ (keesmom: Gold laced Wyandotte; akcountrygrrl: EE; Pele: Silver penciled Rock

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#13 ^ - Buff Cochin

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#14 ^ - Also Buff Cochin

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#15 ^ (keesmom: Gold laced Wyandotte; akcountrygrrl: EE)

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#16 ^ (keesmom/akcountrygrrl: EE)

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#17 ^ (akcountrygrrl: EE)

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#18 ^ Sicilian Buttercup? (keesmom: Campine? akcountrygrrl: EE)

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#19 ^ - Buff Cochin

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#20 ^ - Buff Cochin

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#21 ^ (keesmom/akcountrygrrl: EE; Pele: Silver penciled Rock

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#22 ^ - Oh, pretty dark legs! (keesmom: probably EE)

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#23 ^ - (zeely/keesmom: Dark Brahma; akcountrygrrl: Cochin; Pele: Partridge Cochin)

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#24 ^ (akcountrygrrl; WLR Cornish/Phoenix/EE)


Edited by Zewlie - 3/3/12 at 8:39am
post #2 of 15

2 & 3 could be lakenvelders, but they really look like anconas to me even though those aren't on the list. 

23 is a dark brahma. 

 

a faverolles would have five toes, i can't really tell from the pictures if any of the feather footed ones have five toes, so check for that. 


Edited by zeely - 2/28/12 at 5:09pm
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post #3 of 15
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Thanks, zeely! I will definitely check their feet - maybe that would explain why they're so darn difficult to catch. ;)

post #4 of 15

a bunch look like ee (ameracaunas)  the chipmunk striped ones with the greenish legs and pea combs  ...  ones with other colored legs like yellow or diff combs  ... probably are something else ...

 

and 5 is a dom since its the only barred one of the three possibitlys on the list   .. ( should have a rose/pea comb .. )   

 

 your blk and yellow feathered footed ones could be langshans as well as cochins or faverolles .. so dont forget about them ..   =)  hope i helped out some .. lol   

 

 checking their avalable breeds from that list see what was sold out .. and that could help narrow it down ..       google images .. type in the breed of chicken you think it could be .. .. like   ..   red cap chicks ( the are very distinctive dont think you have any of them.. )     looks like mostly ameracaunas tho .. =)   google images helped me narrow everything down for my chicks last year .. and ill be using it a lot .. next week when my chicks arive .. =)

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post #5 of 15

2  could also be  a sumatra   they are colored like that as babies

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post #6 of 15

i orderd threw mcmurry 2 and orderd rainbow layers looks like i have all the same ones as u got . lol

post #7 of 15

#5 looks like maybe a cuckoo maren.  #7 Buff Brahma maybe.  What  kind of a comb does it have?  Brahma have pea combs (i think)   And I am sorry, but you don't have any salmon favorolles in there.  They are very fluffy, have five toes, and have  a little bit of black spots on their head and back.   They look more like cochins to me.   They might not be all EE's in my mix last time one I though was a ee was in fact a welsummer chick. 

 

post #8 of 15

Faverolles have 5 toes, so check your white feather footed babies for 5 toes, and those will be Faverolles. I have 1 Faverolles, and she is very very sweet, but she gets picked on b/c she's so docile.

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My oldest son is breeding BBS Orps! Looking for breeding stock!

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post #9 of 15

My guesses are:

 

1, 10, 16, 21 EE

7,12,15 gold laced wyandotte

5 dominique

11,13,14,19, 20 buff cochin

18 campine?

4,9 black cochin or black langshan

2,3 sumatra?

6,22 probably EE

8 partridge cochin

23 dark brahma, I suppose

 

24 I'm not sure of

 

Sorry, no Faverolles. Aside from having 5 toes, they also have muffs. I can see none of your chicks have them, so they must be cochins.

 

 

post #10 of 15

5 may be a silver penciled rock, doesn't look like a typical barred chick to me the way the wing feathers are coming in.

Pretty much any chick with green legs is gonna be an EE.

~Meg~
The remaining 6 of my original 7 barred rocks are 3yrs old and happily divided between a friend and my mom.
Laying: 2 Partridge Rocks, 1 Columbian Wyandotte and 2 Black Australorps. 14 weeks: 3 bantam Araucana.
Cowed to chicken math and sharing my bedroom with 8 BBS Ameraucana mixes.

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~Meg~
The remaining 6 of my original 7 barred rocks are 3yrs old and happily divided between a friend and my mom.
Laying: 2 Partridge Rocks, 1 Columbian Wyandotte and 2 Black Australorps. 14 weeks: 3 bantam Araucana.
Cowed to chicken math and sharing my bedroom with 8 BBS Ameraucana mixes.

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