Cochin or d'uccle bantam chicks?

[AngBantamLuv]

It's not a cochin

How exciting! This is my favorite, I hold her every day. So normally she is held, never on a surface when I have her out, so the giraffe neck is an anomaly

 

[MROO]

I got mine in a mixed bantam box as well.. I think these three are all the same breed. Ages 1.5 weeks(brown), 2 weeks (white), 3 weeks (black)

Your little black one looks like it might be a bantam cochin. The other two look d'uccles to me.

EDIT - I take that back. With a closer look, I see floofy cheeks, so the black one is probably not cochin, either. So - d-uccles or booted bantam, depending on the presence of cheek floof!

 

[MROO]

They are 2 weeks old and are bantam. I thought they were cochins, but now not sure?

Silver colored looks like a porcelain d'uccles. I don't see cheek puffs on the little gold one, so it may well be a booted bantam (d-uccles without the extra floof around the face.) either way, they're nice little birds. My one booted bantam hen was the sweetest little thing in the coop!

 

[Painted Calls]

It's not a cochin

Yes, absolutely not. I honestly am stumped as to what it is though. Looks like it has possible muffs. Color is throwing me off as well.

 

[AngBantamLuv]

Yes, absolutely not. I honestly am stumped as to what it is though. Looks like it has possible muffs. Color is throwing me off as well.

I am having trouble getting her cheeks to show up with her coloring, but they are definitely sticking out, same as the other two chicks. BUT! This bird didn't have a speckle of anything other than black when I got her. And then this golden orange started coming in. And its on her chest, back, wings, feet. The black is sort of fading out, not as deep black as before. She flies VERY well.

 

[Painted Calls]

I am having trouble getting her cheeks to show up with her coloring, but they are definitely sticking out, same as the other two chicks. BUT! This bird didn't have a speckle of anything other than black when I got her. And then this golden orange started coming in. And its on her chest, back, wings, feet. The black is sort of fading out, not as deep black as before. She flies VERY well.

Start a new thread in a few weeks and post updated photos. I'm committed and curious now lol.

 

[AngBantamLuv]

Start a new thread in a few weeks and post updated photos. I'm committed and curious now lol.

Ok I think I got some better shots of her..

 

[Painted Calls]

Gosh she's adorable. Definite muffs! How many toes does she have and where did you get her? I think I remember reading (on here somewhere) of a Silkie mix that a/some hatcheries were producing.

 

[AngBantamLuv]

Gosh she's adorable. Definite muffs! How many toes does she have and where did you get her? I think I remember reading (on here somewhere) of a Silkie mix that a/some hatcheries were producing.

I got her from a bantam box at a pet store.. my intention was to get silkies, but all they told me was 5 toed hairy feet, and I had to sort through the **100** crazy running around chicks! So I did get two silkies, but this one, I just mistakened a large feather coming in for a toe.

So she has only 4 toes, she really doesn't behave like the silkies I have. But once I started handling her, I liked how friendly and easy she was to bond with, so I went and picked out two more like her (the white and brown ones). The white one has light colored skin, the brown one also has dark skin, but they all only have 4 toes, and all 3 love to fly and perch.

 

[Painted Calls]

I wasn't even aware that pet stores sold chickens.

Call them and ask where they get them from. That will help you immensely.