4-H chicks have arrived!

[Ursuline Chick]

They are cute as a button, am also interested in what you find out. Especially about the little black one with the skunk stripes. LOL

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

The black looks like a Silver Laced Wyandotte. The pics are really hard to see....
Top right...probably a New Hampshire Red, or Red Sex Link.
Bottom red, probably a RIR, or possibly Buckeye, with the dark coloring. But you would have to look at its comb, as this breed has a different comb type.

 

[sunshine4jt]

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These pics were texted to me by the hubs.... I will certainly get better pictures tonight when I get home!

So dads pictures were a little misleading, especially in the color representation. Here's the little cuties I found when I got home. (No feathers on legs at all that I see)

(has a dark streak on the middle of her head almost looks like a grease streak)

This lady has two stripes down her back and a mottled face/head)

(Two tone browns darkest in face and top of head)

 

[sunshine4jt]

So I found a link https://meyerhatch.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/2142226-standard-chicks and if you scroll down to Golden Laced Wyandotte, that is the closest thing I have found so far to the little black mottled one. A little more research indicates the two toned brown could be an ISA Brown?

 

[Thyme4Chickens]

So so sooooo cute!!!!!

Top chick definitely looks like one of mine - a production red. I'm not sure about the others.

 

[drumstick diva]

I especially love the last photo chick. You've got till Oct. please be patient. New photos at 6-8 weeks and I'm sure we will have more than guesses for you.

 

[sunshine4jt]

So as my chicks grow - should I continue to post pics in this thread, or do most people start a new thread? I'm still new to this so I want to make sure I don't bombared everyone with pictures/posts, but I don't want to loose the conversation either? I went back to my post from last year and updated the breeds I was asking for help with there, but it doesn't appear anybody noticed the update...Just want to know what's appropriate here

 

[Ladybird CA]

maybe if you put in the title Update then people will look at it. I'm not too sure about standard breeds except that the dark one is indeed a gold laced wyandotte. Replying to this post will be great- we will probably receive notifications.

 

[sunshine4jt]

Sad news chicken peeps. We woke up Monday morning and Lemonade (our yellow chick with the stripe) had passed overnight. She showed no signs of stress or illness through the day, but regardless we had to say goodbye. Luckily the other 2 seem to be doing well, and the 4-H club was on the ball ordering 'extras' because now we have Lemonade II. She is a much lighter, vibrant yellow chick with white wings (same age, so 9 days hatched) I will be posting a new pic as soon as I get one of her! As for the casualty, there seem to have been many in this shipment. I don't know what is normal but out of 80 chicks, around 15 have passed, most of them in the care of the extension leader, not the kids....Our chick however, appeared wet under the neck and chest, and I am hypothesizing she played/fell/got pushed into the water dish overnight and couldn't recover from the stress and/or the water. We have moved them into a larger tote with more floor-space since then.

 

[sunshine4jt]

11 days hatched