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Songster
Can you help me identify the breeds of these 6-week old chicks? I ordered five mystery female chicks from the hatchery with my gold laced Wyandottes and Marans. One is almost definitely an Andalusian, another seems likely to be a silver laced Wyandotte (and maybe a cockerel), but the other three are real mysteries.
Chick 1: Scout: she’s enormous. She started out as the littlest yellow chick and now she’s big, fluffy and cuddly. When she was little, she had a small round brown dot on her head (but it didn’t look like a cream legbar cockerel circle) and a he’s had that little tuft on her head for about a week.
Here she is at one week:
And now at 6 weeks:
Elinor: The second has feathers on her legs. Some kind of Cochin, maybe? I can’t figure it out. Her hackles are beige and white, everything else is grey and white. She’s really soft.
here she is at one week:
and at five and a half weeks:
Chicklit: The last one is in the background of that last photo. I’m hoping she’s a welsummer!
She’s turning beautiful red all over. Her breast is currently deep salmon. She’s changed so much in just the past couple of days, the “current” photo below doesn’t do her justice. She also seems to be turning lighter near her wattles.
and now at six weeks:
Chick 1: Scout: she’s enormous. She started out as the littlest yellow chick and now she’s big, fluffy and cuddly. When she was little, she had a small round brown dot on her head (but it didn’t look like a cream legbar cockerel circle) and a he’s had that little tuft on her head for about a week.
Here she is at one week:
And now at 6 weeks:
Elinor: The second has feathers on her legs. Some kind of Cochin, maybe? I can’t figure it out. Her hackles are beige and white, everything else is grey and white. She’s really soft.
here she is at one week:
and at five and a half weeks:
Chicklit: The last one is in the background of that last photo. I’m hoping she’s a welsummer!
She’s turning beautiful red all over. Her breast is currently deep salmon. She’s changed so much in just the past couple of days, the “current” photo below doesn’t do her justice. She also seems to be turning lighter near her wattles.
and now at six weeks: