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    Hoover's Rainbow chicks

    To follow-up on your question: after a few months of feathering out we realized that our chicks were actually Speckled Sussex and not Rainbow! I think the worker at Tractor Supply had grabbed the chicks from the adjacent bin - my kids were initially disappointed to not have Rainbows but love the...
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    Hoover's Rainbow chicks

    Thanks for the help!
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    Hoover's Rainbow chicks

    Hi All, We recently got some "Rainbow" chicks from Hoover's Hatchery (not an assortment of rainbow egg layers). So far they seem like a fun addition to the backyard flock. There is not too much info on their site about them and I reached out as my young daughter is curious about their...
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    Sapphire Splash Pictures?

    Here are our two sapphire splashes. By far our the friendliest birds in our flock...they are the only ones that will walk right up to us and don't mind being held and played with by the kids. Does anyone have any insight into what breeds Hoover's is using to breed these SS? Their website is a...
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    Mystery black chicks - Black Sex link or Australorp or Jersey Giants? Please help!

    Someone else had suggested blue orpingtons as well - is there a way to tell the difference between sapphire gems and blue orps? FWIW they are giants compared to the Isa browns and americanas we got on the same day.
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    Mystery black chicks - Black Sex link or Australorp or Jersey Giants? Please help!

    Quick follow up. These chicks are now 13 weeks old and I’m 99% sure they are roosters. They haven’t started crowing yet (though one of them does make funny noises more like a cat than a cockadoodloo for a few minutes in the mornings). My guess is still that they are Sapphire Gems, as I believe...
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    Mystery black chicks - Black Sex link or Australorp or Jersey Giants? Please help!

    Interesting. Reading up on other Sapphire Gem threads here and it sounds like they do tend to grow pretty fast and hens often have larger combs as well. I’ll keep digging for more clues.
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    Mystery black chicks - Black Sex link or Australorp or Jersey Giants? Please help!

    Thanks for all your replies! I hadn’t thought about Sapphire Gems. We also bought two “Sapphire Splash” around the same time (Hoover calls them “rebel renditions of their Sapphire Gems on their site - whatever that means!) and they are much smaller than Rainbow and Unicorn... They are the white...
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    Mystery black chicks - Black Sex link or Australorp or Jersey Giants? Please help!

    Interesting! Thanks for the references. Does coloring of feathers change much after 5 weeks? I wasn't sure if they could get blacker as the age.
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    Mystery black chicks - Black Sex link or Australorp or Jersey Giants? Please help!

    First time raising chicks and having a blast so far! So we bought our chicks from a small Tractor Supply (who I think sourced their chicks from Hoover this year). They had 3 bins with a few breeds in each bin. The kind gentlemen who helped us admitted he wasn't a "chicken guy" and we are...
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