Chicken breed identification

[budaoweng]

Hi all,

My "Murray's Choice Layer" flock is almost 7 weeks old now, and I need help to identify which breed are they.

1. all white
2. yellow
3. orange-brown
4. orange-brown with dotted patterns
5. same as 4, from a different angle
6. brown chicken, baby chick had a chipmunk look. Is she turning into a rooster?...
7. all gray chicken
8. black and white. baby chick was black on the back and yellow on the chest. She is the smallest of them all.
9. all black, maybe a black star?
10. group dinner.

​

 

[JedJackson]

1 maybe white rock or Leghorn.

2 red sex link or maybe starlight green egger

3 either Cinnamon Queen or some type of Easter egger

4 probably brown Leghorn cockerel

5 probably Sapphire Gem

6 Ancona, unless it is a bantam.

7 Not sure on this one! Probably some type of hatchery hybrid. Not a black star.

 

[Paradisewife]

Hi all,

My "Murray's Choice Layer" flock is almost 7 weeks old now, and I need help to identify which breed are they.

1. all white
2. yellow
3. orange-brown
4. orange-brown with dotted patterns
5. same as 4, from a different angle
6. brown chicken, baby chick had a chipmunk look. Is she turning into a rooster?...
7. all gray chicken
8. black and white. baby chick was black on the back and yellow on the chest. She is the smallest of them all.
9. all black, maybe a black star?
10. group dinner.

​

OMG you could use the dinner pic as the background for a clock! Put a set of hands on it....

 

[budaoweng]

OMG you could use this pic as the background for a clock! Put a set of hands on it....

 

[Rise722]

What a beautiful mix!!!

 

[Buckingham Palace]

You have such a cute bunch.

 

[ValarieF]

1 maybe white rock or Leghorn.

2 red sex link or maybe starlight green egger

3 either Cinnamon Queen or some type of Easter egger

4 probably brown Leghorn cockerel

5 probably Sapphire Gem

6 Ancona, unless it is a bantam.

7 Not sure on this one! Probably some type of hatchery hybrid. Not a black star.

Sorry 6 doesnt have red-orange eyes not Ancona

 

[JedJackson]

Sorry 6 doesnt have red-orange eyes not Ancona

Of the 4 mottled varieties that are possibilities for this chick, only Mottled Japanese bantams have brown eyes. So if it is a bantam then that is what it is. If it's a large fowl, then Ancona or Exchequer Leghorns, and never mind the eye color, since hatcheries often produce birds that don't completely match the standard. I don't think it is a mottled Java, and they are supposed to have reddish bay eyes, too.

 

[nuthatched]

Sorry 6 doesnt have red-orange eyes not Ancona

Hatchery birds are rarely completely 'up to code'. it happens sometimes.

 

[Boppo]

That white with black spots might be an AustraWhite, which is a hybrid of a Black Australorp and a white Leghorn, bred to have the calmer temperament of the Australorp and the high egg production of both breeds.