How do these buckeys look so far? One of 25 has a single comb, one has albino legs

[bocephus]

Started with a straight run of Buckeyes. Born around May 20th. Wasn't sure of which sub forum would be best for this. Pics could be better but my camera battery was dead, had to go cell phone.

We'll start with the single comb "it". It developed a comb and waffle first so we thought rooster, it also crowed first. It's not developing the tail like what we assume the roosters have. It has more female like rear, or maybe the proper poultry term is fluff. Just noticed "it" also has a single comb, so to maintain breed standards it won't be staying with us through the winter.





I assume these will be our roosters with their fancy green tails, slimmer bodies and more developed combs.





Practicing crowing



Notice in this one, the two on the right. Most of the flock are like this with little to no comb noticeable.



And here's the one with albino legs, I'm assuming I'd also want to cull this one?

 

[NYREDS]

Since you're asking about a group of 25 straight run chicks I assume these are hatchery birds, as such I wouldn't expect them to be well bred birds. The fact that there's a single combed bird supports this expectation.The pictures don't help much. If you really want people to be able to evaluate the birds you need to get closer to the birds, show side views & don't take pictures through a fence.

 

[bocephus]

Maybe this was the wrong sub forum. I'm not looking for a complete evaluation. Just wondering if our thought process was correct on who's male/female, was curious about our single comb oddity and if how white legs happen.

 

[TomNY]

Maybe this was the wrong sub forum. I'm not looking for a complete evaluation. Just wondering if our thought process was correct on who's male/female, was curious about our single comb oddity and if how white legs happen.

Single comb is recessive so that bird could have both pea-combed parents. White legs are dominant so one parent [I'd guess the hen] had to be white legged. You can check for single comb carriers by breeding to a single comb.If any offspring at all are single combed the bird is a carrier. Tom

 

[tandersphoenix]

Personally I don't think the single combed one is a buckeye. Look at the rest of the bird excluding the comb, I think it is a RIR or Production Red that got mixed in as a chick. Especially if they did come from a hatchery would be easy to mix up at day old.

 

[bocephus]

I got them from buckeyechickens.com, I think that's all they do there.