How far off the standard can a "purebred" chick be???

[violetsky]

I know there are culls in any breeding program but I don't know if
I should be angry or not. Lets say you order eggs where the chicks
should be clean-legged and dark and you get a feathered-legged
yellow chick, that looks to be a splash, is that just a possibly result when breeding
for the silver color? I ordered sussex from several breeders that hatched
within 2 days of each other. The questionable chick is also much smaller.

 

[Illia]

Sounds like there was either a fence jumper or they accidentally threw in the wrong thing. Does it have white legs or can you tell?

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

A bird..including a chick...either meets the standard, or doesn't. If it's feather legged, it's not what you ordered. Probably someone mistakenly added an errant egg to your order. It happens...

 

[saladin]

No reason to be angry. People make mistakes. Great thing about chickens is that you can always eat the culls.

 

[oxfordsrgr8]

a bird can be as far off from it's own SOP, as to be considered into another quite close.. depends on how much "improving" has been done. course it's not PB, but most likely nothing is PB anymore.

 

[violetsky]

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The chick has yellow legs. I guess I'm grumpier than I should be, but it's really frustrating and expensive to hatch shipped eggs of rarer varieties and wind
up with a low quality nothing. I like ameraucanas and I can't tell you how many times I've gotten ee's. I like ee's but its a chore to have to find homes for excess
roosters, plus random mutts.