Chick colors

[Buster]

I have a lot of eggs coming in March. I am wondering how hard it will be to tell the breeds apart when they hatch. This is what I've come up with:

Buff Orps- Yellow chick
Barred Rocks- Black chick with spot on head?
Speckled Sussex- Dark chipmunk color
Rhode Island Red- reddish chick
Delaware- yellow chick- thefeathersite shows one chick and it looks variegated (color shifts from yellow to almost white)
Blue-laced Red Wyandotte- I looked at Feathersite.com and saw what they look like so that shouldn't be a problem. I guess the only two in question will be the dels and the BO.

 

[Katy]

Most of the time the SS and the BLRWs will look very similar except the SS have a different shade of red to them.

 

[skeeter9]

With the BO's and Delawares that I've had, the Delaware chicks were a little lighter yellow than the BO's, but I'm not sure how reliable that will be since the BO's seem to vary a little bet anyway. Oh, wait a minute, the BO's should have white legs and I believe the Dellie's should have yellow (if I remember right). I'll have to check that out!

Sounds like you've got some nice babies coming! Are you ready for all those eggs???!!!

 

[Buster]

Thanks for that skeeter.

I'm more than ready for all those eggs! I can hardly wait!

 

[gritsar]

Buster I didn't get my chicks from McMurray, but...McMurray does have pics on the webpage of each breed that shows what each chick looks like. They are actual pics, not drawings.
I used that as a guide to tell the one of two chicks (a cochin) that I ordered for another BYCer from my brahmas and to tell my dark brahmas from the buff brahmas.