10 colored-egg breed chicks

[LestersFlat]

I got an assortment of colored egg layers from Hoover Hatchery. Since you all seem to know what you're doing on here, I thought this might be a good test of your skills. Frankly I will be just as happy to be surprised when they grow up, but thought you might have fun guessing.

There is a real chance that some are "Ameraucana" which from most places means mixed-breed Easter eggers, but I will let you decide.

 

[Ladybird CA]

This is difficult because there are 4 breeds possible for the assortment:

Easter Egger,

Prairie Bluebell Egger (Araucana x Leghorn)

Starlight Green Egger (Prairie Bluebell x unidentified brown egg layer)

Olive Egger (Easter Egger x French Cuckoo Marans) or (Legbar x Welsummer)

All 4 breeds can have any colour. Starlights and Bluebells have Araucana blood so they shouldn’t have muffs.

So if the chicks have muffs they can either be Easter Egger or Olive Eggers but you might not ever know because Hoover’s says EE can also lay Olive coloured eggs.

 

[Amer]

This is difficult because there are 4 breeds possible for the assortment:

Easter Egger,

Prairie Bluebell Egger (Araucana x Leghorn)

Starlight Green Egger (Prairie Bluebell x unidentified brown egg layer)

Olive Egger (Easter Egger x French Cuckoo Marans) or (Legbar x Welsummer)

All 4 breeds can have any colour. Starlights and Bluebells have Araucana blood so they shouldn’t have muffs.

So if the chicks have muffs they can either be Easter Egger or Olive Eggers but you might not ever know because Hoover’s says EE can also lay Olive coloured eggs.

I thought this assortment also included brown egg layers? I swear I see a barnevelder, but it's hard to tell.

 

[Ladybird CA]

I thought this assortment also included brown egg layers? I swear I see a barnevelder, but it's hard to tell.

Under the Colored Egg layers assortment only those breeds were listed but brown egg layers were used to create the green eggers

 

[Amer]

Under the Colored Egg layers assortment only those breeds were listed but brown egg layers were used to create the green eggers

I looked at the site and didn't see that assortment listed. What I saw was the Tractor Supply Hoover's Colored Egg Layers assortment.
Oh well. I'll take your word for it.

 

[cstephens1987]

I thought this assortment also included brown egg layers? I swear I see a barnevelder, but it's hard to tell.

Yeah there's two of them that look a lot like my barnie babies. Number 10 especially

 

[Ladybird CA]

The list I found was at Hoover hatchery but after I read your post I went to the TSC website and someone asked a question on there about what breeds are included and Hoover answered saying the 4 breeds plus Welsummers and Marans and if they mentioned those I agree that Barnevelder is a possibility.

 

[LestersFlat]

Wow. You guys are good! It was the TSC website that I ordered them from. I guess I did not do my research, because I did not see that Hoover's answered the breeds question. I will keep you updated with pics as they feather out. I just love watching them change almost daily! Thanks for all your help.

 

[LestersFlat]

Well I think you were right to suggest that I might never know which chicks are which. The one gray one (who also looks to me like he could be a roo) has a tuft on his head which suggests Sapphire Olive Egger according to Hoover's description. The other 2 gray ones (in the photo) don't have a tuft.

I have some in between pics which I will post later, but here are a couple I took yesterday on their first day outside. They are a bit over 6 weeks old. I transported them from the basement brooder box in that dog crate about 20 minutes before, and they were too much in shock to come out of it at first. But soon enough they discovered that whole big world out there!

Any ideas as to what the littlest cream colored one might be? I think it is younger than the rest. It has always been smaller, and it was struggling on its first few hours out of the mailer box.

 

[curranchickens]

I would love an update on your birds! I have recently ordered some and I can not find much online about them. Do you have current pictures? Do you have egg color pics?