Can you help me identify breed of chicks?

[clkingtx]

I got a few more closer up, and some out of the brooder, but it really is too cold to take them out for any length of time. Maybe I can do better tomorrow.
banties: one smoky gray body, buff face with feathered feet : one white with clean feet

other banty pics

ducks:

standards:

I looked through Ideal's online catalog, and they don't even show Muscovy ducks. Maybe they are something else?
As for the leg color, I can't tell much difference in the color of the chicks legs, they all look alike to me. At least one of the ducks have funny colored feet. They are black, then pink in a small swath on the webbing!
Carrie

 

[gryeyes]

I can't help at all with identifying your chicks and ducklings, but I so want to come visit with large empty pockets and sneak away with a much puffier profile and suspicious noises from around my middle......

 

[parrillofarms]

im not framilure with ducks but im sure that give them sometime to grow up and in maybe a week or to you can tell. congrats on the ducks.

 

[CountryMom]

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Unfortunately Ideal doesn't have Muscovies. I tried that last year.

clkingtx if you want Muscovies I have some. I won't be incubating them until spring summer. We have the all white ones. I don't ship so it is pick up only.

 

[clkingtx]

CountryMom- thanks, I might get in touch with you around that time, how far south are you?. We are very North, about 20 minutes from the Ok border.

I am noticing, as I look through the chick pics at the hatcheries, that many breeds look similar or even identical this young. I guess time will tell. As noisy as they were when I brought them home, my husband is surprised at how quiet they are now. He said he had to check on them this morning to make sure they were ok, since they were so quiet.
It is funny how messy the ducks are. I am so glad I listened to the people on here who told me to split the groups up, banties, standards, and ducks. It would be such a disaster if I hadn't! The banties make the least mess, then the standards, then the ducks.

Carrie

 

[CountryMom]

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I am VERY far south of you down near Victoria. However, you could get a hold of Country Hatchery up in OK. That is where I got my Muscovies. He doesn't ship until summer time. He also has more colors than just white.

Chicks are quieter when they are warm...meaning that heat lamp is doing them good. I tried one time to put 3 little ducklings in with some chicks. What a mess! Never again. Now ducks in their own brooders and quickly moved to an outside pen with a giant water bowl. Then released into the chicken coop and allowed to free range quickly. Must less mess to deal with.

Good luck with your chicks. I bet the feathersite will be your best bet at identifying them as they grow.

 

[lleighmay]

The darker ducklings look like my Khaki Campbell babies last spring. If that's what they are they are great ducks (friendly and prolific layers!)

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

I see some bantam EEs, porcelain d'Uccles, a couple of black silkies (?), Production Reds, Silver Laced Wyandottes, large fowl EEs, Cornish Xs, and maybe some Buff Orpingtons. The ducks look like Swedish, Pekin, Ancona, Khaki Campbells and maybe a couple of fawn and white runners. Some of the ducklings are crested, also. The bantams are the hardest to ID. The white ones could be a variety of different breeds.... we may have to wait a little while to be sure. Looks like you got a fantastic variety!

 

[clkingtx]

I hadn't thought about having some cornish crosses, that would give me a taste

(pun intended) of what it would be like to raise some of those. I haven't noticed any really hogging out on the food yet, but maybe they don't start that till later.

I might check out Country hatchery, thanks!

The standard chick that I have in with the bantams, it turns out it has curled feet. I have splints on it right now, hopefully that will help. It has very little or no food in its crop, so I don't know if it will make it.

Carrie

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

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Their chunky bodies make me believe that they are Cornish crosses, but they could just be some chunky White Rocks.

If you visit the hatchery's website or www.feathersite.com it may give you some more ideas about what they could be.