Help identify BREED of chicks!

Victoriafaith0

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Apr 3, 2024
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Hi everyone, I’m a new mama to 3 little chicks. My sister gave them to me from her classroom incubation project so I got them at only 4 days old! I’ll attach some pictures. All my sister knows is they are egg laying. Please help me identify them! I THINK I have two hens and 1 roo, but they’re still only 2 ~ weeks old. Thanks!
 

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Hard to tell if you don’t know much more than “they are egg layers” does that mean they are an actual breed or a barnyard mix? What color eggs did they come out of? My first thought with a white egg layer with a single comb and yellow legs would be a leghorn, but idk.
 
To be supposedly of an egg production breed, those chicks have an extremely wide breast and fat body. They are also large for such a young age. I would say they are Cornish Cross instead because of their appearance. Cornish Cross are hybrids made for meat production. They grow very quickly and need butchering at six weeks old or they will develop health problems very fast.
 

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