D'Uccle color? Frizzle?

[Snow mom]

Edit: these are apparently d'uccle so I'm changing the thread title to reflect that. Any ideas on chick to adult color would be hugely appreciated.

I'm raising my first chicks from a mixed bantam cage and honestly I don't know enough about chickens to be 100% what these are. They came from a local feed store that gets their chicks from Ideal Hatchery.

Here are photos from when I first got them (4 days old???) and almost a week after that.

Mystery chick: what puzzles me is this was just a light, plain colored chick and now I can't figure out what color the feathers are coming in and all the adults I look at that seem similar in color have darker chicks. Also, the wing feathers are starting to curl upwards to the point where I finally noticed it (I'll try to get more pictures later): could this be a frizzle?





Wing curl is now more obvious than this:





I think this one is a mottled??? Will the brown at the tips eventually go away?






And just for fun, this is our defective (note the yellow toes

) black silkie:




Thanks for any info on who these guys (er, I mean gals... hopefully) might be.

 

[akcountrygrrl]

I would say both of your chicks are D'Uccles (they have beard/muffs) but I'm not sure on the colors at this point. Any breed can be frizzled, so it is possible that you have a frizzled D'Uccle.

 

[Snow mom]

I would say both of your chicks are D'Uccles (they have beard/muffs) but I'm not sure on the colors at this point. Any breed can be frizzled, so it is possible that you have a frizzled D'Uccle.

Now that you mention the muffs I see what you mean. I was starting to suspect the mystery one was a D'Uccle but didn't know to look for the muff. I'll have to take a closer look at the mottled looking one--I'm wondering if the picture angles make it look more like it has a little beard than it really does. Or maybe it doesn't take much of a rounding to be a beard. Sigh, I was hoping for some cute round chickens. I wanted Cochins or Wyandottes when I went to look but they didn't have any wyandottes for sure.

 

[Snow mom]

Here's photos from today. Chicks should be 2 weeks old today I think (although I think the little sebright might be a week older because it was much more feathered when I got it? If anyone thinks this isn't a sebright let me know that too.) akcountrygrrl is clearly right that these two are probably d'uccle chicks. Would love more feedback on chick coloring. How tightly linked is the fluffy color the chick is when it hatches to adult color?

Does this look like a frizzle? (also appears from the back in the photo below)

 

[hdowden]

the frizzled is a mix breed probably with cochin in its background, i have never ever seen a frizzled d'uccle and the coloring is not right to any color of d'uccle that i know of (and im looking for several colors) and the legs arent the right color either. the blue and white chick is probably a blue moltted. in that last pic that silkies feathers are sticking out as well.

 

[BlueCamas]

the frizzled is a mix breed probably with cochin in its background, i have never ever seen a frizzled d'uccle and the coloring is not right to any color of d'uccle that i know of (and im looking for several colors) and the legs arent the right color either. the blue and white chick is probably a blue moltted. in that last pic that silkies feathers are sticking out as well.

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[Snow mom]

the frizzled is a mix breed probably with cochin in its background, i have never ever seen a frizzled d'uccle and the coloring is not right to any color of d'uccle that i know of (and im looking for several colors) and the legs arent the right color either. the blue and white chick is probably a blue moltted. in that last pic that silkies feathers are sticking out as well.

So are both the mystery color and the blue mottled or mottled cochin/ d'uccle mixes? Both have bright yellow legs and beaks. I did find a picture of a frizzled d'uccle earlier but maybe that was mixed with something? It really doesn't matter--these are just pet starter chickens so I'm not looking to have a particular breed standard. I'm just curious what we have. I noticed the curling on the black silkie today too. Before it just looked a bit ruffled. I think it's the that curling of the feather that contributed to me feeling that chick wasn't well for a while. I'm certainly learning a bunch with these chicks. Do I need to worry about the feathers sticking out. I saw mention somewhere of heat and feather curling but I couldn't find any other info on that.

 

[hdowden]

the silkie might be a sizzle. were did you get them from? the blue does appear to be a mix to but mixes can be very pretty

 

[Snow mom]

the silkie might be a sizzle. were did you get them from? the blue does appear to be a mix to but mixes can be very pretty

Yes, I think that might be right, although I thought it was a silkie before the feathers started coming in. All the birds came from a local feed store that gets their chicks weekly from Ideal Hatchery. I know hatcheries aren't great source for great breed standard but I am kind of surprised that they all seem to be mixes. Well, I think my white silkie might be an actual silkie

. I'm sure they will all be beautiful to me. It's interesting to watch them grow and change and imagine what they will look like as adults.

 

[hdowden]

Yes, I think that might be right, although I thought it was a silkie before the feathers started coming in. All the birds came from a local feed store that gets their chicks weekly from Ideal Hatchery. I know hatcheries aren't great source for great breed standard but I am kind of surprised that they all seem to be mixes. Well, I think my white silkie might be an actual silkie

. I'm sure they will all be beautiful to me. It's interesting to watch them grow and change and imagine what they will look like as adults.

that is interesting as my feed store gets their chicks from ideal and i have bought some from them and they never seem to be as off as some people post :-/ i would love to see them once they are fully feathered might help determine proper breed or mixes better then. the biggest thing i see with ideal is that their chickens none of them seem to get even close to squandered while cackle hatchery seems to have better stock than ideal lol.