Any guesses what these chicks are?

[kaddidle]

I'm sure that this is obviously a newbie post, but...

A friend of mine who's a photographer got fifteen chicks to use as props for an Easter photo shoot. They came from a random feed store and she has no idea what breeds they are. She is going to give them all away and has offered some to me so I'm trying to decide if I want to get one or two of them.

I'm particularly interested in knowing if any of them are sex linked breeds as I'm really trying to avoid having any roosters as zoning ordinances prohibit them where I live and I want to keep my neighbors happy!

 

[LarryPQ]

I think: Easter eggers, RIRs, Wyandottes, maybe buff orp?

Don't most feed stores order pullets for the "basic" breeds? The feed stores by me only order straight run for the "Fancy" breeds, silkies, polish, seabrights...

 

[Chickenfur]

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i agree, but i don't think that any are buff orps, they are more of a light yellowy-gold color, unlike RIRs. (RIRs are really good layers, so, if i were you, i would get one of those!)

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I'd take all of them. Then, after a few months, ask which ones are females/males and then give away the males to "any" home.

 

[LarryPQ]

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i agree, but i don't think that any are buff orps, they are more of a light yellowy-gold color, unlike RIRs. (RIRs are really good layers, so, if i were you, i would get one of those!)

good call. monitor issues.

 

[kaddidle]

Thanks everyone. So, the red ones are the RIRs...which ones are the Easter Eggers?

 

[sherrydeanne]

Any with puffy cheeks and greenish legs are probably EE's. The chipmunk gals in your photo have typical EE chick coloring so if the cheeks and legs match, those are easy.
You don't have any sexlinks there, they're probably either NHR's or RIR's, I don't know enough about them to tell them apart.

 

[LarryPQ]

The two on the bottom left could be wyondottes...they have that "uber-decorated" look wyndotte chicks have. On the head, I mean. Really pretty as hatchlings, bleh up to laying, pretty adults.

 

[Chickenfur]

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EEs have blue-green skin, so, you can tell right away what they are if you look at they're legs, if they don't have blue-green skin then they are probably wyandottes.