Four colors of Starlight Green Eggers

[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.

Here's what the dark starlight green egger looks like now. She's seen here with her black jersey giant buddy. I don't know what the light one ended up looking like. I haven't seen her since I gave her to my friend. No eggs yet but getting close! I'm actually about to sell these guys because they aren't very friendly.

 

[FunClucks]

Here's what the dark starlight green egger looks like now. She's seen here with her black jersey giant buddy. I don't know what the light one ended up looking like. I haven't seen her since I gave her to my friend. No eggs yet but getting close! I'm actually about to sell these guys because they aren't very friendly. View attachment 3275050

I had two partridge looking SGEs (similar to yours above, but one had more gold instead of black on her neck, and the other had a red head and neck). I rehomed the one with a red head and neck because she started feather picking one of my Prairie Bluebells and we weren't able to discourage the behavior. She pulled all the feathers off of half her back in less than an hour. 50-100 feathers. She was one of the friendlier chickens, which was sad.

All the SGEs I still have are a bit neurotic, although they'll allow me to handle them. They're laying now, two greens (white chicks) and a tan egg (chipmunk chick). They're less flighty than my Prairie Bluebells and more flighty than my ISA Browns, Golden Comet, and Buff Orpingtons. One of my favorite chickens is actually an olive egger that looks like the partridge SGEs, but has a head poof. She's the most friendly of all the colored egg layers, but unfortunately she turned out to lay a brown (peachy brown) egg. I really wanted an olive egger... Just not having much luck with these partridge colored chickens, or with colored egg layers at the moment.

 

[FunClucks]

Here's what the dark starlight green egger looks like now. She's seen here with her black jersey giant buddy. I don't know what the light one ended up looking like. I haven't seen her since I gave her to my friend. No eggs yet but getting close! I'm actually about to sell these guys because they aren't very friendly. View attachment 3275050

Meant to say also - she sure is pretty!!!

 

[Debbie292d]

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

Good to know. We have 8 silkie/frizzle hens and 2 of the same roosters, and I was looking to find a couple of other types of chickens to have a bit of a mixed flock, but it's hard finding ones that would be the same as them and not bully them. I have 4 Speckled Sussex pullets coming from our feed store in March, but can't decide what else to get. Maybe I'll hatch more silkies, but I just hate dealing with the roosters. They're semi-easy to give away, but still, it's a pain to advertise them.

 

[Amblaze]

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.

Did this end up being a hen or rooster? I have one in the exact color way, and I’m still stumped at 6 weeks.

 

[FunClucks]

Did this end up being a hen or rooster? I have one in the exact color way, and I’m still stumped at 6 weeks.

All of mine including this one ended up being female.

 

[Amblaze]

Thank you! This gives me hope

 

[NewAtThis8]

This is the kind we got as our first step into chicken ownership. Got 4 “pullets” but there’s a question on 2 of them for gender and 1 of them for gender AND breed (looking like a leghorn). I love them so much I took about 151819161628 pictures. Found this thread as I was researching people’s experience with this kind and finding out how difficult they are to identify. One of them, Sofia (we call her “backpack, you’ll see why in the photos of her as a few day old chick) is the most beautiful mottled caramel and white, can’t wait to see how much more beautiful she gets as she grows.

Backpack (Sofia) and Dorothy (chipmunk stripe)


Backpack today (with Dorothy Blanche and Rose [our suspected leghorn rooster…] in the back.

 

[FunClucks]

This is the kind we got as our first step into chicken ownership. Got 4 “pullets” but there’s a question on 2 of them for gender and 1 of them for gender AND breed (looking like a leghorn). I love them so much I took about 151819161628 pictures. Found this thread as I was researching people’s experience with this kind and finding out how difficult they are to identify. One of them, Sofia (we call her “backpack, you’ll see why in the photos of her as a few day old chick) is the most beautiful mottled caramel and white, can’t wait to see how much more beautiful she gets as she grows.

Backpack (Sofia) and Dorothy (chipmunk stripe)
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Backpack today (with Dorothy Blanche and Rose [our suspected leghorn rooster…] in the back.
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Both the pheasant and red sexlink one look like female SGE. I think you called it, I think your white one might be a leghorn cockerel. How old is the white one?

 

[NewAtThis8]

Both the pheasant and red sexlink one look like female SGE. I think you called it, I think your white one might be a leghorn cockerel. How old is the white one?

4.5-5 weeks old! I was getting a little hopeful after looking at photos of same aged leghorn pullets and how quickly their combs develop vs other breeds- I had previously been looking at her as a green Egger as she was labeled, but “she” kind of acts bold and bossy like a little rooster would…