Four colors of Starlight Green Eggers

[About15chickens]

what gorgeous birds! My

Are they cockerels or pullets? Love the colors!

Thank you! I am hoping all pullets. Compared to our sapphire gem cockerel they appear to be pullets but I'm not 100% sure.

 

[SelfSufficientMe]

Almost 9 weeks.
Very flighty except for the dark one.

I love that you were able to get a cross with legbar. I think mine are a cross between a Bluebell and a Welsummer. Still hard to determine my Welsummers from my Starlights. I do have one that looks similar to your lightest one. That’s a definite.

The injured chick in my photos with the bare neck is the only one with the darker chest. I split the chicks with someone. We do not know if the injured chick is a Welsummer or a second Starlight. My light chick is my other Starlight. The pair that looks alike could also be either Starlights or Welsummer I guess I’ll find out when they start to lay. The one on the feeder is one out of the pair. Got a close up of the feathers.

 

[About15chickens]

I love that you were able to get a cross with legbar. I think mine are a cross between a Bluebell and a Welsummer. Still hard to determine my Welsummers from my Starlights. I do have one that looks similar to your lightest one. That’s a definite.

The injured chick in my photos with the bare neck is the only one with the darker chest. I split the chicks with someone. We do not know if the injured chick is a Welsummer or a second Starlight. My light chick is my other Starlight. The pair that looks alike could also be either Starlights or Welsummer I guess I’ll find out when they start to lay. The one on the feeder is one out of the pair. Got a close up of the feathers.

The legbar cross was a surprise. Wasn't expecting that at all since it's says Prairie Bluebell and a "brown egg layer". Then their hairdos started to come in. I noticed in the BYC group on Facebook that there are several others who got starlight's with the legbar hairdos this year. They are pretty but sure aren't friendly or nice. The dark one is nice and is so far the most interesting color. Not sure what she'll look like grown.

I can't tell which of yours are starlight's except for your lightest one. They are all pretty though Like you said I guess you'll find out for sure when they lay.

 

[FunClucks]

I have a starlight green egger. 4 wks old. In the lighter color. Hasn't feathered out on her head yet, has yellow legs. I didn't know they came in the darker versions, I'd have gotten one of those because right now it's hard to tell her from my ISA browns and golden comet. She has silhouetting on her individual feathers, and the others have feathers that are one color or the other, but it's same orange and white color scheme for all of them so far. She's a sweet bird. A slight bit more skittish than the others, but still willing to sit with me and come over for hand treats. As a chick she was light yellow with caramel chipmunk stripes. Sort of whitish yellow. In the last picture you can still see her down and chipmunk stripe where her feathers haven't grown in between her back feathers and her right wing.

Updated picture of this chick (Sassy) at 6-8 wks. She's getting a lot less shy. The black chicken is a PBB and Sassy is in the front in the third picture (back chick is an ISA Brown).

 

[FunClucks]

Three colors of SGE at 2-3 weeks. Two pictures per chick.

 

[Nikidust]

These are my 2 starlight green eggers that I picked up 3 days ago from TSC, so they are probably about a week old now, or getting close. They are both so cute, but I'm so in love with the dark one. They were labeled pullets so hopefully they both are. We are only keeping one and giving the other to a friend but it's so hard to choose. The light one is crazy active, and we have 2 jersey giants with them who are way calm, so the contrast is sharp lol. I'll update every few weeks.

 

[FunClucks]

These are my 2 starlight green eggers that I picked up 3 days ago from TSC, so they are probably about a week old now, or getting close. They are both so cute, but I'm so in love with the dark one. They were labeled pullets so hopefully they both are. We are only keeping one and giving the other to a friend but it's so hard to choose. The light one is crazy active, and we have 2 jersey giants with them who are way calm, so the contrast is sharp lol. I'll update every few weeks.

I've never see the black version of starlight green egger at my feed stores. What gorgeous plumage on both of them!

 

[About15chickens]

These are my 2 starlight green eggers that I picked up 3 days ago from TSC, so they are probably about a week old now, or getting close. They are both so cute, but I'm so in love with the dark one. They were labeled pullets so hopefully they both are. We are only keeping one and giving the other to a friend but it's so hard to choose. The light one is crazy active, and we have 2 jersey giants with them who are way calm, so the contrast is sharp lol. I'll update every few weeks.

Both of yours look similar to a couple of ours. Our two like your lighter one are the ones that ended up with a poof on top of their heads.
Our lightest and darkest ones have always been very calm. The two tan ones with the poofs have always been very active and the hardest to catch. They're very flighty and vocal.
Our darkest one has been our favorite and seems to have the most unique coloring of the 4. She was similar to your dark one but her face wasn't completely dark.

 

[Lucy down south]

I also have Starlights I got from tractor supply. They are 5 weeks now. They were in the pullet bin.

Please let me know if any of yours turn out to be boys!

 

[HennyTerri83]

I also have Starlights I got from tractor supply. They are 5 weeks now. They were in the pullet bin.

Please let me know if any of yours turn out to be boys!

if any of yours are boys it’ll be easy to tell soon! they’ll be getting pink and red in the comb, when they should until close to the point if kay in a pullet. i found that out the hard way last year with some