Identify 6 Chicks

[bworth]

Hello, new chick mom here and our six little ladies are about 4 weeks old and wondering if anyone can help match the photo to the any of the below breeds?

1) Ameraucana
2) Barred Rock - maybe with eye injury?
3) Black Copper Marans (pretty sure she’s the black one with feathered feet so didn’t include photo)
4) Cuckoo Marans - or is she the one with injured eye?
5) Whiting True Blue
6) Whiting True Green

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Barred rocks have yellow legs and feet, and cuckoo Marans have pink legs and feet. Ameraucana or Easter egger will have pea combs, and green or slate legs. It's hard to tell from your photos.

It can be hard on their feet to stand on that grid. You could put a piece of plywood down to give them an area to get off of it.

 

[bworth]

Thank you so much for the info and the heads up about the grid. They can access the grass as well, but I'll make an area on the top as you suggest. Is that all the time, or just when they are young (that the grid is not great for them to stand on). I'll take better photos for identification purposes.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I've never use a grid like that with chickens, only rabbits. With rabbits you need to provide an area where they can get off the grid to prevent pressure sores. I would assume for chickens it would be a strain on the feet, but if they can get off it it may be okay. I know meat birds are sometimes raised on a grid to keep them cleaner. So I'm not sure. I'd put section down and see if they prefer standing on it or not. It's just me guessing at it, so if it's working ignore my advice.

 

[NatJ]

It can be hard on their feet to stand on that grid. You could put a piece of plywood down to give them an area to get off of it.

It's hard to tell in the photos, but I think I see a hole in that floor, with a ramp down to a grassy area below. That's in the photo with the Cuckoo Marans (white feet), and the photo just before it with a gray/white/black chick.

If the chicks are able to go to an area with grass, they already have a way to get off the grid, and there would be no need to change anything.

(But I could easily be mis-interpreting what I see.)

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

It's hard to tell in the photos, but I think I see a hole in that floor, with a ramp down to a grassy area below. That's in the photo with the Cuckoo Marans (white feet), and the photo just before it with a gray/white/black chick.

If the chicks are able to go to an area with grass, they already have a way to get off the grid, and there would be no need to change anything.

(But I could easily be mis-interpreting what I see.)

Makes more sense than I did.

 

[NatJ]

match the photo to the any of the below breeds?

6) Whiting True Green

Second photo, chick with shades of brown and black, breast is a rather red shade, single comb, chick has the head stretched rather high looking at the camera.

I think that chick is your Whiting True Green, because of the single comb. Ameraucanas are supposed to have pea combs, and so are Whiting True Blues.

And of course this chick is the wrong color to be Barred Rock or either Marans. That leaves Whiting True Green as the only breed that would fit this chick.

 

[bworth]

It's hard to tell in the photos, but I think I see a hole in that floor, with a ramp down to a grassy area below. That's in the photo with the Cuckoo Marans (white feet), and the photo just before it with a gray/white/black chick.

If the chicks are able to go to an area with grass, they already have a way to get off the grid, and there would be no need to change anything.

(But I could easily be mis-interpreting what I see.)

That is correct, thank you! I placed a few 2x4s in the top area just in case though