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They are looking wild with their tappits and also wild as in not very tame and able to fend for themselves. I didn't think I'd like the brown ones, but they are beautiful. The black ones look shabby in comparison. They have very firm/strong feeling necks, maybe longer necks than other...

Oh, to clarify, the CLs and Shetlands are from eggs I bought. I’ve been able to is those now Then I have 6 chicks from my Opal rooster and a couple of my hens The 2 Marans hen/Opal rooster mixes are also easy. Mainly black with feathers on feet The Isbar hen/Opal rooster chicks are yellow...

I took a closer look/feel and the difference is apparent. Shetland hens have their little tappits already coming in They also, the brown ones, have a more jagged back pelatternbinstead of the straight stripes of the CLs And shetlands are heavier Truth is, a week old they look quite different

This is a good idea, so I started looking at them a little closer when I change their housing today. Unfortunately, the black Shetland hens have black legs but I think the lighter ones do not. . They are a Landrace, so they are like birds related in a big extended family with similar looks, but...

Any hints on how to tell a cream legbar chick from a Shetland Hen (when they aren’t black)? I’m in that happy position of having ~25 chicks. I know that 8 of them are cream legbars and 10 are Shetland Hens and the remainder are from my black copper Moran, and or an iceberg chicken that I have...