At this age you can't see the purple on a black shoulder chick, not before 5 or 6 months.Lily is getting bigger and showing some Purple on the wings. (?) Tomorrow she will have some company, five have hatched out tonight, one more has pipped and four more are going to hatch over night.
I'm guessing you will see the difference in the Bronze BS chicks sooner than 6 months, they should get much darker speckled color than the Cameos do. As for telling Cameo BS from Cameo BS W/E, I wish you the best of luck. I don't know if 6 months will be long enough for that.Correct, i hate dealing with black shoulder chicks, last week nine chicks hatched, three cameo bs, three cameo bs w/e and three bronze bs chicks. I mixed them by mistake, now i will need to wait at least 6 months to tell them apart
q8peafowl,,most all my birds are b/s as well. That's why I made my own hatcher with separate compartments to keep chicks separated until I can get them identified and marked using 4" long colored zip ties which I put on their legs. Some colors only gets a tie on one leg, other colors gets a zip tie on each leg. You have to keep an eye on them as the chick grows but after about a month I wingband them and cut the ties off.Correct, i hate dealing with black shoulder chicks, last week nine chicks hatched, three cameo bs, three cameo bs w/e and three bronze bs chicks. I mixed them by mistake, now i will need to wait at least 6 months to tell them apart
Yeah bronze bs are easy to tell early, i remember i put the leg bands on cameo bs chicks first, so hopefully if i'm mistaken between bronze bs and cameo bs w/e chicks i could tell which are which after 2 months.
I do have a hatcher with separate compartments, i made the mistake after bringing them outside the hatcher, that's a good idea to use two legs bands for some colors instead of two, i will be careful with next week hatch!
