Once upon a time, there was a wonderful compilation of webpages with just such photo IDing as this undertaking - that's what I was looking for myself when I gave up, figuring after 10+ years, evidently the ultimately anonymous person that did all the work either lost their server space or...
UPDATE: The two chicks have now developed a teeny-tiny bit of red-brown/almost mahogany -- what little is there has 'erupted' in the center of what was black - and what red-brown/almost mahogany that can be seen with the naked eye (under strong light) remains surrounded by black/not touching the...
Photo I found of OEG Bantam chicks...
They don't look like those chicks...
From this page of various OEG Bantams and chick pictures , most of them appear to have some sort of striping on their backs or looking solid-coloured, albeit some with gradients. Still looking for chicks with anything...
Oh I'm interested - just don't a) have any old enough yet to jump into a swap b) still have to iron out the quirks with an incubator I got in a trade... hope more swaps like this available in the Fall (at the earliest for me I'm sure) or next Spring.
I spoke with someone at PH in I think it was the last week of March, at that time there were "some issues" but within a week I couldn't view any of the online catalog at all. They were aware of the problem, heck I offered to fix it! They said that it was being worked on, but either they've got...
Yoshii ... did the leg colouring change then from the one you show/posted the photo of to that colour, from a different colour (like mine shown in the first/original post) with age, or was the leg colouration consistent from chick to the age shown in the photo you posted?
Since I'm behind the...
agree on the disagree - think maybe you were looking at some of the confirmed silver and gold(en) campine pix others posted for comparison? The three pix I posted you will see, or not see as the case may be, the differences we're spotting... the lack of colours other than black on white, such as...
Camouflage-y! That's the word I was looking for when trying to compare to Campine chicks and others that have the primitive markings designed by nature to protect (hide - camouflage) babies. No striping like "chipmunks" that are seen in many other purebreeds either. Something else I noticed when...
I had considered the Silver Campine previously, but two things "held me back" - 1) I couldn't tell from the photos I came across if the chicks were of a yellow base hue or if it was the lighting with the camera 2) if Campines came in a Bantam variety.
I don't find any indication of the latter...
Silkies have blue/slate grey legs... the pigment could cross with yellow to create the cast you are seeing in the shanks - while not necessarily providing any other phenotype to the cross you see. Sumatras and some others also have darker shanks.
Hello all - hoping to find at least one person here who may be familiar with these markings to help ID these two chicks. A little "background info" on them, that may or may not help to narrow things down as well as clarify on what the photos may infer but not be accurate about.
Source: TSC -...