CalicoMoonFarm
In the Brooder
So 11 weeks ago I got 31 straight-run chicks. MOST of them are obvious roos (just my luck), plus three that I'm confident are pullets. There are 11, though, that I just don't know! For most of them, their tails seem to say roo but their faces seem to say pullet. Help a first-timer out? 
The parents of these babies are Marans (FBC, wheaten, birchen), Ameraucana, Easter Egger, Crested Cream Legbar, Olive Egger, California White, Wyandotte and Silkie (though I avoided the Silkie crosses as they aren't my thing) if you also want to help me figure out what crosses these guys/gals might be. Something to take note of is that the only feather-footed birds the lady had at the time were her Marans (and her Silkies, but again I didn't get any of them).
I tried to get photos of their tails and their combs, but I must apologize for the state of the pictures. I had to use the wide angle setting on my phone because they see it and want to come take super close selfies, especially tag #4!
#1 is staying either way and is my husband's pet so it doesn't matter if this one starts screaming in the morning or pooping breakfast.
I do know that this one came from a FBC Marans egg, and the father is most likely the "main man", an Ameraucana. Riker is a bit runty because of a traumatic hatch, is several fries short of a happy meal (possible brain damage from massive blood loss at hatch?), and has one wonky leg and a crooked toe on the other. This baby is ~special~ in many ways. ♥
#4 is constantly underfoot, and an absolute nightmare to photograph. I have so many blurry photobombs from this booty-pecking ankle-biter.
#5 and #9 below are both identical to a pair of reds that have already outed themselves as obvious cockerels, except for their combs and personalities. I suspect these two are cockerels as well, just not as well developed yet because they're so low-ranking in a big flock consisting mostly of bigger, badder boys?
#9
#12
#13 is definitely a Legbar x, daddy is possibly the Ameraucana "main man"
#16
#21 - Is this one blue barred instead of black like the others? Or is their barring just super blurry?
#25
#26
#30 I think this one might be Marans x Wyandotte because of the feathered feet plus the color and comb?
The parents of these babies are Marans (FBC, wheaten, birchen), Ameraucana, Easter Egger, Crested Cream Legbar, Olive Egger, California White, Wyandotte and Silkie (though I avoided the Silkie crosses as they aren't my thing) if you also want to help me figure out what crosses these guys/gals might be. Something to take note of is that the only feather-footed birds the lady had at the time were her Marans (and her Silkies, but again I didn't get any of them).
I tried to get photos of their tails and their combs, but I must apologize for the state of the pictures. I had to use the wide angle setting on my phone because they see it and want to come take super close selfies, especially tag #4!
#1 is staying either way and is my husband's pet so it doesn't matter if this one starts screaming in the morning or pooping breakfast.
I do know that this one came from a FBC Marans egg, and the father is most likely the "main man", an Ameraucana. Riker is a bit runty because of a traumatic hatch, is several fries short of a happy meal (possible brain damage from massive blood loss at hatch?), and has one wonky leg and a crooked toe on the other. This baby is ~special~ in many ways. ♥
#4 is constantly underfoot, and an absolute nightmare to photograph. I have so many blurry photobombs from this booty-pecking ankle-biter.
#5 and #9 below are both identical to a pair of reds that have already outed themselves as obvious cockerels, except for their combs and personalities. I suspect these two are cockerels as well, just not as well developed yet because they're so low-ranking in a big flock consisting mostly of bigger, badder boys?
#9
#12
#13 is definitely a Legbar x, daddy is possibly the Ameraucana "main man"
#16
#21 - Is this one blue barred instead of black like the others? Or is their barring just super blurry?
#25
#26
#30 I think this one might be Marans x Wyandotte because of the feathered feet plus the color and comb?
