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[FarmGirl01]

Which variety are they?

 

[FarmGirl01]

In this photo the 2 chicks standing are both pullets -left is a week old and right is a day old. Both have dark eye stripes. The chick laying down is a day old cockerel. Faint eye stripe and the stripes on the back are also faint, with a blueish or grayish tint all over.
These are crele variety. The "rule" hold for most duck-wing varieties.

 

[lethldragon]

The ones I have are splash

 

[Cjarvis]

I know some people have said that you can tell by an eye stripe on the chicks but I'm not sure which color their supposed to be but these have no stripes just the different color on two of them, I'll have to try and post a pic later

What variety are they? Duckwing varieties can be sexed by the eye stripe, Females have a dark stripe, males are very light or absent.

 

[Cjarvis]

The ones I have are splash

Lets see the Pics.. You may have something else..

 

[Cjarvis]

lethldragon-I wish I knew how to answer your question, but being able to tell the gender of chicks is something I still struggle with.

I just found out tonight I will be getting a trio and a pair of brown/red OE's. I'm excited. My sis has swept her local show with these birds about 3 times now. It's a county show, but a big one and I believe it is ABA sanctioned now. Unfortunately I don't know a blessed thing about this variety. Looks like I'm going to have to be doing some reserch.

What you want to know about them? The Color is actually based on the Old standard With darker hackle color and the brown comes from the brown based black and dark brown undercolor in the feather. So many you see anymore are lighter hackled like a lemon hackle and the black and underdown is wrong..

 

[lethldragon]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/image/view/album/6151216/id/5130062/sort/display_order

Heres the pic I got, not very good but luckily both colors are able to be seen, the one on the right under mama is the one of the two with a light gray stripe on it's back and the goldish color on it's head, the one with it's head sticking out on the left is one of the four that are basically all gray or bluish in color, any ideas? Both hens and the roo are splash and no chance of another roo getting to them.

 

[lethldragon]

Here is the dad!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/image/view/album/6151216/id/4848957/sort/display_order

 

[bantiesrule]

I don't really know but I don't think you can tell at such a young age with the splash variety because it really doesn't have a set pattern to the colors. You'll have to keep us updated when they grow up.

 

[lethldragon]

I will, I'm interested to see also. I'm still debating on leaving them with mama or separating them