Assorted Chicks. Guesses?

promiseacres

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Oct 1, 2012
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potential breeds are: giant cochin, silkie, rhodebar, bielefelder, maran x, and delaware (I believe those are it)
Most of the eggs were of med-large size and light tan-brown(only 3 total could of been silkie) 10 of these hatched on day 20 and I lost track after the first 3 of which eggs. it's day 22 and still have 1 in the process of hatching and 3 eggs left

1. bielefelder or rhodebar (pretty sure pullet :) )
has clean legs



2a. these all have feathered legs 4 toes, mixed colors (Std cochin OR Silkie)


2b. you can see the differences in amount feathering in this group


3. a bit smaller, with yellow feet, 4 toes and feathered legs. all mostly black with some yellow


4. pretty sure these two are maran X


5. pretty sure these are delawares (1 has greying feather tips 1 does not)
 
Adorable! Going with the breeds that you listed...

I think you're right on 1.

For 2, Silkies should have black or very dark feet all over, as well as 5 toes. Silkies also have crests, but these don't always show up in chicks. Looks like the lavender colored (?) one is your Silkie in this batch. The rest appear to be Cochins (can't tell what colors--maybe a partridge, a lavender split, and a black?).

3, they look like black Cochins.

4, Marans X is hard because French Marans have feathered feet. Depending on where you got them, the feathered feet may or may not have been preserved.

5, definitely look like Delawares.

My 2 cents!
 
potential breeds are: giant cochin, silkie, rhodebar, bielefelder, maran x, and delaware (I believe those are it)
Most of the eggs were of med-large size and light tan-brown(only 3 total could of been silkie) 10 of these hatched on day 20 and I lost track after the first 3 of which eggs. it's day 22 and still have 1 in the process of hatching and 3 eggs left

1. bielefelder or rhodebar (pretty sure pullet :) )
has clean legs has green legs probably an americuana mix??? (yes that's not on the original list I got from the seller)



2a. these all have feathered legs 4 toes, mixed colors (Std cochin OR Silkie)

Yellow with stripes is def. a frizzle cochin (keeping for fun)
black one on bottom seems to be a maran X
Dark grey I think is Silkie
Silver one still not sure hoping for another cochin



2b. you can see the differences in amount feathering in this group


3. a bit smaller, with yellow feet, 4 toes and feathered legs. all mostly black with some yellow
all 4 are 1/2 the size but have frizzle feathering.... only 3 eggs were possibly bantam sized...guessing these may be frizzles?


4. pretty sure these two are maran X
still thinking maranx


5. pretty sure these are delawares (1 has greying feather tips 1 does not)
thinking these are delawares adn there's a third one too
 





any thoughts on sex? he is 2 mos facial features say hen to me, tail feather say roo... :) thank you!
 

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