Here we go again! Is this a Silver Laced Wyandotte?!

Definitly not a Wyandotte or an Australorp.

Seems to me its going to be a Birchen something, maybe its an Iowa blue, they are Birchen coloured if I remember right.

 

*Sigh* sure hope someone can help you...it will help me too. Same problem with the "Australorp" I got from TSC a couple of weeks ago. I REALLY dread telling my husband his big black chicken is getting stripes!!!!

 

I hope someone can help you - We got some from TSC and one of then looks alot like yours. He is very pretty, but I think we will have 4 boys, and that is too many. Anyway, I would like to know what kind he is.

 

Last year several people who got BA's from Ideal had lacing on them. If TSC gets them from there it would explain it. Sounds like a serious quality issue.

Richard

 

You might want to check where your TSC gets their chicks from (mine TSC bought from Mt. Healthy) then find out what kind of chicks that hatchery sells - maybe you can narrow it down to a specific breed.

 

these are my barred rocks, the black and white ones..


and this is the head of my silver laced wyandotte



if this helps.

My barred rocks I got from a different hatchery, as assorted, but I did order a barred rock rooster and dominic rooster, I wondered when they would get the barred look, and some look more barred than others.
My silver laced wyandottes had the white markings on their heads from day one.

 

Wow, I have SLW, BA and BR and none of them looked like yours at that age!

Here are each breed's group pics at 2-3 weeks of age

Black Australorps
Silver Laced Wyandottes
Barred Rocks

 

The legs do look like an Austrolorp. The chicks I have seen did feather out with some white. Perhaps Maransguy is right about quality issues. Remember with hatchery chickens they are utility grade.