Count them, three...

[Vantic]

My latest batch of chicks is six weeks old. There was a mix up with the eggs while hatching so I don't know who they came from. I got the eggs from two different local chicken ladies.

Chick 1 is a silkie over ? It has a sibling that is gray with black tips. The only two that are gray-skinned and five-toed.


Chick 2: I have no clue, but that is understandable as my primary flock (was) barred rocks. Each chicken lady listed off a stack for different bird types. One had two roos a silkie and an Orpington. But the hen list was diverse. The other is more the Americana, EE, etc type with quite a bit of white leghorn around.


Chick 3: My special little Outtie. She had an external yolk sack at birth for some reason I couldn't resist trying to save her. So she is small and special, but that doesn't help me know "what" she is.


What do you guys think?

 

[featheredplanets]

They’re all mixed. Chick 1 and 2 are probably part Silkie. The breed list would need narrowing to have a chance at IDing them properly though, as they could be pretty much anything.

 

[cluckadoodledoo13]

Chick 1 definitely looks like a silkie, not sure on the other 2. Sorry i’m not much help. Good luck with them though!

 

[cluckadoodledoo13]

Chick 1 definitely looks like a silkie, not sure on the other 2. Sorry i’m not much help. Good luck with them though!

The 1st one doesn’t have fluff, it’s feathers are smooth and the bum shape makes me think it’s crossed with something like a pekin or cochin?

 

[Vantic]

The 1st one doesn’t have fluff, it’s feathers are smooth and the bum shape makes me think it’s crossed with something like a pekin or cochin?

She may have said Cochin. Aren't they a brooder type, if so that is quite the combo. She will never get off the eggs.

 

[cluckadoodledoo13]

She may have said Cochin. Aren't they a brooder type, if so that is quite the combo. She will never get off the eggs.

If she had some cochins then that’s what i would say the breed is. I have silkies, pekins and cochins and yes they are very broody lol seems to be the thing with fluffy bottoms as we call them. Silkies aren’t persistent layers anyway so you’ve got yourself quite the combo.

 

[cluckadoodledoo13]

The 1st one doesn’t have fluff, it’s feathers are smooth and the bum shape makes me think it’s crossed with something like a pekin or cochin?

I agree, it definitely looks like it.

 

[Vantic]

If she had some cochins then that’s what i would say the breed is. I have silkies, pekins and cochins and yes they are very broody lol seems to be the thing with fluffy bottoms as we call them. Silkies aren’t persistent layers anyway so you’ve got yourself quite the combo.

When I was talking to the source of those eggs, she said she had a Orphington and a silkie roo and that she could not say who was what eggs Daddy. My reply was "perfect, I wanted an outdoor incubator".

 

[cluckadoodledoo13]

When I was talking to the source of those eggs, she said she had a Orphington and a silkie roo and that she could not say who was what eggs Daddy. My reply was "perfect, I wanted an outdoor incubator".

I would say the silkie roo