My order of day old chicks just arrived.
I had to order 20 to make the minimum, but I'm only keeping 6.
I pre-sold the other 14 on craigslist.
My order (all sexed pullets) consists of 3 cuckoo marans, 3 welsummers, and the other 14 are all americaunas (and all look different!).
I could tell the marans right away because they look just like my barred rocks (black with the white on the top of the head). I can tell some of the americaunas (I think) because they are a plain bluish gray, or a bluish gray pattern, and the real light with the dark brown markings).
However, some of the welsummers and americaunas look REALLY similar. I even google imaged pictures of welsummer chicks vs americauna chicks and some of the EXACT SAME images are shown under both.
I'm only keeping 2 of each type so I REALLY want to be right. Anyone have suggestions on telling the the welsummers from the americaunas? All the ones I'm confused on have the "eyeliner" look and a triangular dark brown spot on the head and the darker color stripe type thing on the back.
Anyone know a secret for telling for sure (other than keeping them until they're older as they were promised for pickup tomorrow....)
These all look alike to me....
The 3 black ones are the marans, and the other 3 are the only other 3 that look different from the rest, but I REALLY don't think they could be the welsummers, I've never seen welsummers that color.....
This is all of them together..... 3 are cuckoo marans, 3 are welsummers, and 14 are americaunas
If you want individual pics of certain chicks to help, please let me know and I will take some. I called the hatchery and they told me they couldn't tell me without seeing them in person, but it's definitely 3, 3 &14. In the past, hatcheries made a point of sending chicks that you could easily tell the difference (ie choose americaunas for the shipment that didn't look so close to the welsummers...)
I had to order 20 to make the minimum, but I'm only keeping 6.
I pre-sold the other 14 on craigslist.
My order (all sexed pullets) consists of 3 cuckoo marans, 3 welsummers, and the other 14 are all americaunas (and all look different!).
I could tell the marans right away because they look just like my barred rocks (black with the white on the top of the head). I can tell some of the americaunas (I think) because they are a plain bluish gray, or a bluish gray pattern, and the real light with the dark brown markings).
However, some of the welsummers and americaunas look REALLY similar. I even google imaged pictures of welsummer chicks vs americauna chicks and some of the EXACT SAME images are shown under both.
I'm only keeping 2 of each type so I REALLY want to be right. Anyone have suggestions on telling the the welsummers from the americaunas? All the ones I'm confused on have the "eyeliner" look and a triangular dark brown spot on the head and the darker color stripe type thing on the back.
Anyone know a secret for telling for sure (other than keeping them until they're older as they were promised for pickup tomorrow....)
These all look alike to me....
The 3 black ones are the marans, and the other 3 are the only other 3 that look different from the rest, but I REALLY don't think they could be the welsummers, I've never seen welsummers that color.....
This is all of them together..... 3 are cuckoo marans, 3 are welsummers, and 14 are americaunas
If you want individual pics of certain chicks to help, please let me know and I will take some. I called the hatchery and they told me they couldn't tell me without seeing them in person, but it's definitely 3, 3 &14. In the past, hatcheries made a point of sending chicks that you could easily tell the difference (ie choose americaunas for the shipment that didn't look so close to the welsummers...)
