Ideal Poultry Bantam Assortment- picture heavy

[TattooedChicks]

Hatched on 6/13, I know it's super early, but I thought it would be fun to play who's-who on my new batch. I ordered 2 black Cochins, 2 btw Japanese, and 2 sdw Old English, the others are hatchery choice!

I'll post more pictures as they grow up too.

1- mottled jap? 2- btw Jap
3- btw jap 4- ? 5-? 6- ?
7-? 8-?
9- brahma? 10- black Cochin
11- sdw oegb 12- ?
13-? 14- buff orp?
15- buff brahma? 16- sdw oegb
17- black Cochin 18- black Sumatra???
19- dark brahma? 20- another black Cochin?

 

[drumstick diva]

OH PLEASE enjoy them as chicks. They are only a few days old, and when they are fully feathered out the colors will probably not be any where the same. Try posting new photos when they are 8 weeks old.

So many chicks start out the same color etc.

I like to tell folks if they want to know what gender at birth - get a puppy.

 

[TattooedChicks]

Now one week old! Let's see how many guesses carried over with the latest developments.


1- Birchen Cochin
2- Black Cochin

3- Btw Jap

4- Sdw Oegb

5- Mille Fleur D'Uccle

6- Btw jap

7- Partridge Cochin

8- White Cochin

9- Mille Fleur d'Uccle

10- Porcelain d'Uccle

11- White d'Uccle

12- Mottled Jap

13- Self Blue Cochin

14- Buff Orpington

15- Black Cochin

16- Black Sumatra

17- Gold laced Cochin

18- Partridge Cochin

19 & 20
Sdw Oegb and one very camera shy Oegb of unknown color

 

[TattooedChicks]

Looks like a girl to me and since white d'Uccles are rare I think the extra toes come from inbreeding. Yay you have 4 hens now- was it difficult to find homes for the roos?

Oh yay!!!! That's such a relief. Well, if that makes four, then I still have 8 more boys to put on Craigslist. That's the only way I've been able to rehome any of them.

Though I'm considering keep a lone roo to make some babies next year, but he has to be quiet. I'm hoping one of my btw japs will do the trick and not make much fuss if he has no competition. Plus, how loud could a one pound bird really be? Lol. That or my beautiful gold lace Cochin, but that bird feels more like a gamble where my japs are like tiny waddling puppies.

 

[Chicken Girl1]

I think you are correct about 1, 10, 20, 19, 11, 17, and 16. 5 looks like a Porcelain d'Uccle. Does 4 have feathered feet? 7 looks like a Partridge Cochin, 8 looks like a Cochin, 9 the muffed cheeks make me think d'Uccle possibly a Millie Fleur. 12 again thinking d'Uccle, does 13 have muffed cheeks? 14 not sure, 15 thinking Cochin, 19 I'm thinking Brahma. Sorry for jumping all over the place, since there are so many possible breeds which they could be (especially feathered footed breeds ) I gave my best guess. They sure are cute little boogers!

 

[TattooedChicks]

13 does have some puffy cheeks! And 4 has very light leg feathering. Thank you for your insight!

 

[Chicken Girl1]

Then I think 4 is a Cochin and 13 is probably another d'Uccle.

 

[TattooedChicks]

OH PLEASE enjoy them as chicks. They are only a few days old, and when they are fully feathered out the colors will probably not be any where the same. Try posting new photos when they are 8 weeks old.

So many chicks start out the same color etc.

I like to tell folks if they want to know what gender at birth - get a puppy.

Oh I'm not interested in their gender at this point, only curious as I what assortment I was blessed with.

I'm enjoying them immensely-- and half the fun is guessing what's to come under all that fluffy down. Just yesterday I started to notice the little black spots coming through on the wings of what appears to be some lovely little Mille Fleur d,Uccles.

It's like Christmas almost, wondering what's inside that cute little gift.

 

[TattooedChicks]

Week 2 updates: concerned about Roos

Seeing lots of comb development and rough housing. Wouldn't it just be rotten luck to lose the majority to unwanted cockerels in a few weeks.
Roo? Roo? Roo? Roo? Roo? Roo?

 

[TattooedChicks]

Basement flooded and soaked the brooder, the chickpeas got booted to the newly finished coop for the night. Xmas lights for a touch of celebration and to keep them quiet, the poor dears.