Button chick colours

FenayBeck

In the Brooder
Oct 17, 2018
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Can anyone help me with identifying these chicks please? I think the darker one is a red breasted cock and I think there may be a red breasted hen, but I have no idea about the two lighter coloured ones. And also, is it possible to sex the two lighter coloured ones? I'm hoping the big grey one is a female so I can tame it to be with a tame tuxedo cock I have.
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Although they appear to have a white patch under their throats, it's hard to tell by the pics whether they are male or female.
The dark colored chicks appear to be 'wild type' but again, they are not feathered out yet. That's a cool looking silver black laced bird, I'm not too keen on the all the color variations and the names. I'll tag @DK newbie , for that verification.
 
Thanks for your reply. It's hard to get a decent photo of them as they are pretty timid. I'll try get some better ones.
 
Hi! The one on the left in the first pic is most likely a red breasted hen. The red breasted roos are much darker, there is no mutation giving the males that color, but it could still start to grow darker feathers and turn out male - not very likely though.
The one in the middle seems a bit lighter than a normal wild colored though I'm not quite sure what mutation causes it. Again, I'd say it's most likely female, the males are usually darker - but it can change.
As Sean says, a white patch on the throat usually indicates the bird is male, but only a full pattern of white and black stripes are a certain sign of the bird being male and as far as I can tell none of yours have that. The one on the right in the first pic seems to be getting blue breast feathers though, meaning it is pretty certainly a male - possibly wild colored split to tuxedo or something like that, causing the strange white throat patch.
The one in the back corner in the second pic I dare not really guess anything about, but I'd love to see more pics of it, it seems to have a very interesting color.
 
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Thanks so much for the info, DK newbie. My first lot of chicks were really easy to tell what they were, but I've been a bit stumped with these. The grey one really is a beauty, I'll be sure to share more photos with you.
 

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