Breed ID! Help!

[RobinS1217]

Sale of the century. Lucky (hopefully) for me I got 19 3 day old chicks for $20 simply because they were delivered untagged and employees weren’t sure of breed. Regularly $5.49 per chick here. Can you help me ID them?! Was thinking wellsummer but second guessing myself because of their beak color.

First photo: close up of some of the ones we purchased
Second photo: the chicks at TSC- we did not buy any of the yellow but they’re were all together and untagged.

 

[Little Baby Bean]

I think they are Rhode Island Reds.

 

[Purelychicks]

Sale of the century. Lucky (hopefully) for me I got 19 3 day old chicks for $20 simply because they were delivered untagged and employees weren’t sure of breed. Regularly $5.49 per chick here. Can you help me ID them?! Was thinking wellsummer but second guessing myself because of their beak color.

First photo: close up of some of the ones we purchased
Second photo: the chicks at TSC- we did not buy any of the yellow but they’re were all together and untagged.

They are Rhode Island Reds.

 

[Yard Farmer]

They're Rhode island reds.

 

[RobinS1217]

They're Rhode island reds.

A friend had me thinking Production Red because they’re so small. I’d rather them be RRI!

 

[Holdthechicken]

Some hatcheries do have bantam RIR, if they are that small.

 

[house1917]

Could be RIRs and broiler chicks, they don't look like banties compared to the feeders.

What a great deal you got!

 

[RobinS1217]

Could be RIRs and broiler chicks, they don't look like banties compared to the feeders.

What a great deal you got!

Excuse my ignorance but what is broiler chick?

 

[TRALALARA1]

Here’s my rirs for reference. They look very similar.

 

[house1917]

@RobinS1217 They're sometimes called broilers or CornishX/Cornish cross. They're 'meat' birds rather than 'egg' birds.

They go from the size chick in the picture, to the size birds you buy at the grocery store in the meat aisle in about six weeks.

So they' re bigger WAY faster even as cute little peeps. Normal egg laying varieties take months to mature.

No worries for you though, you got the egg kind!