"Assorted Wyandottes" -- Do I Have 2 of the Same?

[3KillerBs]

The helpful and knowledgeable clerk at Carolina Town & Country helped me try to select Silver-Laced Wyandottes from the Assorted Wyandotte bin. She told me to try to find the lightest, most silvery ones -- which was a bit tricky considering that they were running around quite actively.

Just now, while watching Chick TV, DS#3 and I noticed that one of the Wyandottes has silver in the middle of her back while the other has black in the middle. Are they likely to be different varieties or do SLW chicks vary that way?

Sorry if pictures are blurry -- they're fast-moving little things.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Better pictures may help. The first looks like a silver laced, the second doesn't, but it may be the pictures.

 

[3KillerBs]

Better pictures may help. The first looks like a silver laced, the second doesn't, but it may be the pictures.

The second one definitely has black in the center of the back instead of silver. Their faces are marked identically, and it took a while for them to slow down enough for us to realize that they didn't match.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

The second may be a gold laced.

 

[3KillerBs]

The second may be a gold laced.

I didn't want one of those and avoided all the ones with any brown on them. Oh well.

I guess I'll be selling that one when I weed down to only 4.

 

[3KillerBs]

So, the Meyers Chick ID page says that the one with the dark stripe down the middle should be a SLW -- leaving the one with the silver stripe in the middle as the mystery.

I suspect that the chicks came from Welp Hatchery (I forgot to ask, but the breeds available matched what Welp carries -- especially the Blue Australorps). They don't list the less common Wyandottes separately and I can't find online pictures of Wyandotte chicks in the less common varieties.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I just realized you have that brooding thread also that shows the chicks from the top. They may both be silver laced by that photo. Some aren't marked the same as chicks. There can be variations.

 

[3KillerBs]

Thank you.

 

[3KillerBs]

The Wyandotte sisters have white spots on their wing feathers!

I tried not to hope too hard, to remind myself that the first white spec could have just been feather sheathes.

But it sure looks like black lacing on white tonight:

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Chick feathers are just chick feathers. They don't reflect the final color often.