Chick Days Strike Again!

[cottontail farm]

Did your TSC actually have signage for thw bantams? We only ever get an "assorted" bin here.

 

[Arya28]

@cottontail farm LOL! No, I'm not in Mercer but one of my aunts lives there so we are there a lot. That's funny! We were in there and saw their chicks last year. She's actually trying not to get them from there either this year, but it's hard because she has to go in for chicken food.

Ok, ok everyone, I will post pics. Lol

 

[Arya28]

Ok so we have a silkie, one of what we believe is a silver duckwing old English bantam, one of what we believe is a black-tailed Japanese bantam, one that we think might be a d'uccle, and 2 we think *could* be mille fleur d'uccles.

Chick #1- The White Silkie

Chick #2- White, with two very thin black/greyish lines down the back and some very small hints of grey specks intermittently. Bearded, feathered legs. Maybe some type of d'uccle? It's not porcelain because we have had them and it is not purple enough. It's probably hard to see the very small hints of grey specks/stripes in the pics.

Chick #3- White, clean legs, no beard. What we believe to be a white black-tailed Japanese bantam:

Chick #4- Chipmunk pattern, dark eyeliner and stripe (girl?), clean legs, no beard obviously... what we believe to be a silver duckwing old English bantam. We got a boy last year, looked just like this only not quite as dark and I don't think he had eyeliner. We are hoping this one can be his companion! He needs a girl his size lol:

Chick #5- One of the mystery chicks. Feathered feet, no beard apparent yet. Mille fleur d'uccle? I thought they were bearded? But it doesn't look like a Brahma does it?

Chick #6- Almost identical to chick #5-- actually, I can't tell them apart very well in the pictures! So... a couple might be the same. But they look a lot alike.

What are your thoughts????

 

[cottontail farm]

Good job with the chicks! The only bantams I can ID are silkies. Just for the sake of discussion, If they have fluffy cheeks and feathered legs, in your experience are they usually mille fleur or some kind of d'uccles?

I get my feed at the local mill so, *technically* I have no excuse to be in TSC right now, but it's my experience that DH doesn't actually know how many birds are on our property anyway.

 

[cottontail farm]

By "usually mille fleur or some kind of d'uccles?" i mean is there a good chance I am brining home one of the two and not something else?

 

[Arya28]

Yes in my experience so far I think a bantam with a beard AND feathered legs is most likely going to be a d’uccle. Cochins and brahmas aren’t bearded.... and I can’t think of another kind that is right off the top of my head. But if you’re getting bantams with feathered they are bound to be cute and small either way! Lol

 

[Amer]

Looks Faverolles ish. Does it have five toes per foot?

 

[Arya28]

Looks Faverolles ish. Does it have five toes per foot?

Nope I just counted. 4 toes per foot

 

[Amer]

Nevermind. TSC doesn't sell Faverolles bantams.

 

[Arya28]

By "usually mille fleur or some kind of d'uccles?" i mean is there a good chance I am brining home one of the two and not something else?

Oh, and the sign just said “Assorted”