hatchery mis-marked eggs for school hatch, please help!!

[kemclaughlin]

My daughter's kindergarten class hatched eggs. These chicks are about 10 days old. We know that at least one of them was mis-marked. They were supposed to get barred rock, black sex-link and golden sex link. I think chick 9 might be a buff orpington (it was mis-marked as a barred rock), none of them have the brown that shows up on the black sex link, and even the suspected golden sex-link pullets don't look like they should. So please help, and if you can tell, any genders that you suspect... These chicks are supposed to go home next week.





Chick 1



chick 2



chick 3



Chick 4



Chick 5



Chick 6



chick 7



chick 8



chick 9

 

[daniel rainey]

the black ones look like they may be black minorcas, wgat coured eggs did they come from? if they where white then this is very possible. if they whernt with it wasnt...

 

[kemclaughlin]

The eggs were all varying degrees of brown. The eggs came from Dunlap Hatchery, so that does somewhat limit the choices.

 

[Chickiemommie87]

Most of the black and yellow look like barred rock or they could be Black sexlink roos. The all black one is likely a black sexlink pullet. The reddish ones are most likely sexlinks they look like My red sexlinks but paler so likely golden. I'd say sexlink roos for the yellowish ones. But yellow could be any number of breeds.

 

[donrae]

From your choices, a black bird with a solid head will be a black sex link pullet. They don't get the reddish color until they feather out, they're just too young.

A black bird with a white spot in it's head is either gender or barred rock or a black sex link cockerel. It's very difficult to tell bsl cockerels from barred rock females until the comb and sex feathers come in.

Your gold chicks look like sex links to me. Remember, chick fuzz isn't the same as feather color. The last one may be a male, I'd have to see it next to the others to compare color, but the first three look like pullets.

 

[kemclaughlin]

The last one looks male to me too, but it's feathers are coming in a buff color. That egg was mis-marked as a barred rock, so it may or may not be a sex-link.