Are there GLWs? help!

[speckledhen]

It's possible they are just hatchery quality and have the wrong color legs. To me, they don't look that much like GLWs, but honestly, I can't think of what else they could be.

 

[sloallie10]

GUESS >>> dark cornish>?????? a very bad guess, but thats what came to my mind.

 

[Uppity Peon]

dark cornish>??????

It's not a bad guess IMO considering the way the bird is standing high. This picture shows one of my Hatchery GLW chicks at 7 weeks with the typical posture.

This photo of a DC shows the more typical posture.

http://www.cacklehatchery.com/cornishbantam.htm#dark​

 

[speckledhen]

I thought about Dark Cornish, but the head in general didn't seem to be the shape of a Cornish and the eyes dont seem like that, either, but hatchery stock is so variable, it's possible.

 

[Namble]

Yea, all my birds are from Murray Mcmurray. Is hatchery quality not as good as hatching them yourself? Everyone on here is saying "hatchery quality"

 

[Katy]

Hatcheries hatch for quantity, not quality so the birds they hatch out and sell very rarely meet the breed standards. There is nothing wrong with those birds, and they're usually good layers, but their coloring, markings and body type more than likely isn't what it should be.

 

[Gercarson]

I don't think yours is a GLW - mine look like Uppity Peon's - and they ALL look alike, no discernable differences. Yours "may" be, but not likely.

 

[Namble]

oh ok ty.

 

[Big dreams]

Once it gets the feathers around the neck won't it be easier to tell, the dark cornish have dark neck feathers and the GLW have lighter ones. I think. Here is a pic of a dark cornish from MM.


This is younger but I don't remember the exact age.
Here is one a little older, same bird.