Hoovers Hatchery "Rare Breeds" question

[CatME]

Has anyone experienced mistakes where they send the wrong package or slip in the cheaper breeds in the more expensive package?

I'm starting to get suspicious.

 

[pibb]

Why are you suspicious? Did you get the wrong chicks or something?

 

[CatME]

Silver Laced Wyandotte was in their "Standard Package" and I got one of those. I might have black Australorps too.

I was just wondering if that has happened to anyone else. Maybe they're not Australorps but look similar right now as chicks.

Either way I love my chicks and will love them no matter what, but the standard package was way cheaper!

 

[Acre4Me]

Hopefully you got the rare breeds. However, have you looked at chick pics of the rare breeds that they list as possibilities, and do they look like your chicks? How old are the chicks now?

 

[CatME]

They are almost 5 weeks and I'm stumped. I only have 1 that I know was on the list and that's either a Speckled Sussex or a Welsummer. The rest I just don't know.

 

[Acre4Me]

What breeds should they be?

Can you post pics? When taking a pic, use regular light. Take pic of them from the side, while they are standing. Seeing their feather pattern, and leg color, and comb type are the most useful things for breed ID at this age.

 

[NatJ]

Silver Laced Wyandotte was in their "Standard Package" and I got one of those. I might have black Australorps too.

I was just wondering if that has happened to anyone else. Maybe they're not Australorps but look similar right now as chicks.

I'm looking through the list here:
https://hoovershatchery.com/hatcherychoicerare.html
And comparing with photos here:
https://hoovershatchery.com/id-my-chick.html

"Rare" chicks that could look like Black Australorp to me:
--Midnight Majesty Marans
--black "Blue Andalusian" (breeding blues gives black/blue/splash, so black chicks are common.)
--French Black Copper Marans (might have feathered feet)
--maybe Cuckoo Marans or French Cuckoo Marans (barred chicks "should" have yellow dots on their heads, but somtimes they're quite small or faint, and the chicks look remarkably like black chicks)

For the Silver Laced Wyandotte: could it be a Columbian Wyandotte? That's on their rare list.

Other chicks that might resemble Silver Laced Wyandottes in color, although they all have different comb types:
--Silver Lakenvelder
--Blue Andalusian (black, blue, splash: at least some could look similar)
--Light Brahma (has feathered feet, but similar at first glance)

The rare list also includes Sapphire Olive Egger, Prairie Bluebell Egger, Starlight Green Egger, Olive Egger. Those are all crosses of one kind or another, and some can come in quite a few different colors, so that makes them the hardest to identify (but if you want colored eggs, they are very nice ones to have!)

 

[CatME]

Thank you so much!!

I guess I just need to be patient and find out. I appreciate your weighing in.

 

[CatME]

I will take some photos of them tomorrow so you can get some good looks at them.

 

[Stephanie83619]

Hoovers sent me 10 Red Sexlinks when I orderd 10 Easter Eggers. Take pics, email them, and request a new shipment of the correct birds. Its taken me 3 weeks and going through TSC to get them to correct their error.