4 weeks old, minimal tail

[wobit]

Help me ID my 4 week old McMurray's exotic spare - she seems a wee bit smaller than all the rest, and her feathering is definitely delayed compared to the Whitings and the Barred Rocks. She has lots of feathers on her legs, less wing feathers than the others and almost no tail feathers at all. She seems too uniformly yellow to be a Buff Brahma. Her attitude is a docile, not outgoing like the Barred Rocks at all, or flighty as the Whitings. She's on the right, with a Whiting True Green pullet in the foreground and what I fear will be a Whiting True Blue cockerel to her left (he has wattles and no one else does). All chicks the same age.

Any ideas?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

What is the comb type? Looks like a buff Cochin. Many times the free exotic is a rooster, but sometimes it isn't.

 

[chuckachucka]

The mystery chick looks like a girl, whereas you are right that the one to the left is a boy. Not sure of mystery breed though.

 

[wobit]

I think she will have a very small pea comb. It is similar in shape to the 4 Barred Rock pullets of the same age, but smaller and very pale. I have just google image searched on Buff Cochins and I think you are right.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I think she will have a very small pea comb. It is similar in shape to the 4 Barred Rock pullets of the same age, but smaller and very pale. I have just google image searched on Buff Cochins and I think you are right.

A Cochin will have a small single comb. It does look like it will be a female, you should know for sure in a couple of weeks if that comb stays smaller and orange.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Buff Cochin

 

[wobit]

Thanks everyone! We are happy, we had formerly had a sweet Light Brahma that was much loved before the bobcat took her, and it seems likely this Cochin will have a similar disposition. Is it possible to learn early on if she's a bantam? Or is a slower rate of growth normal for all Cochins?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I think it may be a bantam.

 

[drumstick diva]

cochin