Golden Comet or New Hampshire reds

[Sugar Chic]

Hi All, attaching photos of my sweet gals.. they certainly have the personalities of a golden comet. When we bought them from TSC we were told they were something Rock... ? I have narrowed my search to Golden comet, New Hampshire red or sex links. What do you think?

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Hi All, attaching photos of my sweet gals.. they certainly have the personalities of a golden comet. When we bought them from TSC we were told they were something Rock... ? I have narrowed my search to Golden comet, New Hampshire red or sex links. What do you think? View attachment 2309878

I‘ll go NH.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Let me go get pictures. I'm going "none of the above". I have Comets from Hoover Hatchery, 17 weeks (tomorrow). I also have birds from hoover hatchery which I initially mistook for NH Reds, 21 weeks (tomorrow). They are the hatcheries "Rainbow", and for all that their sales copy claims they are all different - my 7 seem to have come from the same photocopier.

and yeah, TSC... Not so great with the labels.

Pics to follow.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Here is one of the Comets, about 4# I can spot them at 250 ft by all the white in their pattern. All three of my girls look the same.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

And for comparison I'll try and get two pics of my "Rainbows". The first one will have a few with the paler markings.

 

[Elizabethwood09]

NHR

 

[U_Stormcrow]

And a second picture with some darker markings, particularly around the neck where you can see some of the much faded NHR traits. All of my Rainbows are currently in the 5 to 5.5 pound range.
The white bird muscling in on the photo is one of my 10 lb Cornish X hens.

 

[NatJ]

I have narrowed my search to Golden comet, New Hampshire red or sex links.

Golden Comet is one kind of sex link.
Golden Comets, and many other sexlinks, have some white feathers in the tail and the base of the neck.
Those birds have black feathers in the tail, a few bits of black at the base of the neck, instead.
So of the choices you named, most likely New Hampshire. (There exist a few kinds of sexlinks with bits of black, but they are far less common than the ones with white.)

 

[Sugar Chic]

And a second picture with some darker markings, particularly around the neck where you can see some of the much faded NHR traits. All of my Rainbows are currently in the 5 to 5.5 pound range.
The white bird muscling in on the photo is one of my 10 lb Cornish X hens.
View attachment 2309948

Thank you! My girls do have the black at neck too and also at tail

 

[Sugar Chic]

My gals are at about 18 weeks, their feathers are starting to be more red than a golden yellow Mystery