Identify chicks' breed, color and sex

[FoxySonia]

Did you order specific breeds or an assortment? Either way looks like you have a nice variety

On my 1st order from Ideal Poultry, I ordered specific breeds, and got about a 50/50 males and females. Out of 53 chicks (46 bantams), 6 died, and out of the 47 survivors, about 23 turned out to be male, I'm unsure about the Silkies and 1 Easter Egger, so the number of cockerels could be slightly higher. On my 2nd order I got 7 Brabanters sexed pullets, but 1 is for sure a male, and possible another 1, so that's pretty bad for the hatcher's accuracy in sexing chicks. I got 20 Appenzeller Spitzhauben sexed pullets from Hoover's, 1 died, and 1 turned out to be a cockerel, the other 18 are pullets, so that's pretty good in sexing chicks correctly, about a 95% accuracy.

 

[FoxySonia]

Hi,
I got 53 bantam chicks (and 1 standard, a Salmon Farerolle pullet) from Ideal Poultry, some to keep (pullets) and the rest to sell. They hatched on April 28 and I received them on April 30. Three chicks died within the first 72 hours (2 Sultan, 1 black Silkie, 2 blue quail d'Anver?, 1 barred Old English Game bantam, and 1 mystery chick?, that wrongly identified as 1 white Silkies, 1 black Silkie, 1 blue Silkie, 1 Easter Egger bantam, 1 golden neck d'Uccle and 1 mille fleur d'Uccle, which is what is being sent as replacement). Here's link to album where you can see the photos of the 6 chicks that died, so they can be correctly identified: https://photos.app.goo.gl/GGi4L34ZgCF1Z5x58
One of the white Silkies came with a fungal eye infection that spread to surrounding skin, and to a couple of other chicks, including another Silkie. After 4 days of spraying twuce a day with an antifungal spray it's already getting better, and the bare skin is getting covered by feathers. The rest of the chicks are doing well, seem healthy, energetic, and at just 4 weeks they have most of their feathers and spend a lot of time away from the brooder plate and heat lamp.

Anyway, I've been able to identify most of the chicks breed, and few as cockerels because of more prominent comb, and a few as pullets because of smaller/flatter comb. The Silkies I can't guess their sex, the previous 3 Silkies I own that were sold to me as 6 week old pullets, turned out to be cockerels that started crowing at 4 1/2 months old. Going through the list of chick breeds I got, there are just 2 breeds I'm not sure I'm identifying correctly: blue quail d'Anver and blue mille fleur Old English Game bantam. I can't find any photos of 4 week+ old blue mille OEGB. I also have golden neck OEGB, and buff Sebright, and their feathers colors look almost identical.

Here's list of chick breeds I have:
1 white Sultan bantam (after 2 died / a pullet?)
3 mottled Cochin bantam (I think 3 cockerels, or 2 cockerels and 1 pullet?)
3 white frizzled Cochin bantam (3 cockerels?)
1 black Silkie (after 1 died / cockerel)
2 blue Silkie (1 cockerel and 1 pullet?)
3 white Silkie (1 came with fungal eye and skin infection / 2 cockerels and 1 pullet or 1 cockerel and 2 pullet?)
2 Easter Egger bantam (skitish ones / 2 pullets?)
3 white crested black Polish bantam (shy ones / 1 cockerel and 2 pullets?)
3 blue laced red Wyandotte bantam (3 cockerels / 1 tiny and 2 much bigger)
2 blue quail d'Anver (after 2 died?, 2 pullets?)
2 golden laced Sebright (2 pullets?)
4 buff Sebright (2 cockerels and 2 pullets?)
4 golden neck Old English Game bantam (shy little guys, cockerel, pullet?)
4 blue mille fleur Old English Game bantam (very curious and sweet, cockerels, pullet?)
3 golden neck d'Uccles (2 cockerels and 1 pullet?)
3 mille fleur d'Uccles (3 cockerels or 3 pullets?)
3 barred Old English Game bantam (after 1 died / curious but skirish / 2 cockerels and 1 pullet?)

Please check out the photos and give me your guess as to what sex you think they are, and which ones you think are the blue quail d'Anver and blue mille fleur OEGB. Thanks

White Sultan Bantam (pullet?)
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Mottled Cochin Bantam (2 cockerels, 1 pullet?)
- Chick 1 (cockerel or pullet?)
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- Chick 2 (pullet?)
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- Chick 3 (cockerel)
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White Frizzled Cochin Bantam (3 cockerels)
- Chick 1 (cockerel?)
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- Chick 2 (definitely a cockerel)
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- Chick 3 (cockerel or pullet?)
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Silkies
- Black Chick (cockerel)
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- Blue Chick 1 (cockerel?)
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- Blue Chick 2 (cockerel or pullet?)
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- White Chick 1 (cockerel or pullet?)
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- White Chick 2 (pullet?)
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- White Chick 3 (cockerel or pullet?)
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Easter Egger Bantam
- Chick 1 (pullet?)
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- Chick 2 (pullet)
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White Crested Black Polish
- Chick 1 (pullet?)
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- Chick 2 (cockerel?)
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- Chick 3 (pullet?)
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Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Bantam
- Chick 1 (cockerel)
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Blue Quail Belgian D'Anver
- Chick 1 (pullet?)
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- Chick 2 (pullet?)
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To Be Conitinued

(Will add more photos soon, of the rest of the chicks.)

Sorry I haven't added the photos of the rest of the chicks, and it's taken me so long to update. Between not being able to edit the original post after the first day, and being super busy and tired, I haven't been able to make the time to add the rest of the photos and an update on the chicks.

For being my first chicks that I get at 2 days old, I did pretty good at identifying them and even at sexing them. Here's an update, for the chicks I have shared a photo of. These photos were taken on June 14, so I need to take new photos to show how awesome the teenage chicks look now. Of the chicks that I'd shared the photos:

White Sultan is a pullet. (I'm keeping)
She's beautiful but very shy.

Mottled Cochin Bantam chick 1 and 2 are pullets (keeping both), and chick 3, the smallest, is a cockerel. (he sold)
Chick 1 - pullet

Chick 2 - pullet

Chick 3 - cockerel

White Frizzled Cochin Bantam chick 1, the largest, is a pullet, chick 2 and 3 are cockerels. (still available)
Chick 1 - pullet

Chick 2 - cockerel

Chick 3 - cockerel

Black Silkie I think is a cockerel. (sold)

Blue Silkies are actually Black, and I think both might be pullets (one developed a slight crossed beak, I gave her away to a customer).
Chick 1 - pullet

Chick 2 - pullet (crossed beak)

Of the White Silkie chicks, 1 was a cockerel for sure, the other 2 seem like pullets. (all 3 sold)
Chick 1 - cockerel

Chick 2 - pullet

Chick 3 - pullet

Chick 2 I wanted to keep, she turned out a bearded beauty, but a customer fell in love with her and persisted until he convinced me to sell her to him. I wish I had kept her, and wish I had taken photos of her before she left, she had a full crest and beard. Here's a still from a video from June 25:

Of the Easter Egger Bantam chicks, chick 1 is a cockerel and chick 2 I think is a pullet. Notice the eye marking on chick 1.
Chick 1 - cockerel

Chick 2 - pullet or cockerel? (Easter Egger or blue quail d'Anver?)

For a while I thought chick 2 must be a cockerel, because her comb's salmon color, but comb is flat and fshe has not crowed or exhibited cockerel behavior. Most of the bantam cockerels started crowing at 8-9 weeks old. Maybe someone can confirm the sex and breed of this chick. Is it an Easter Egger bantam pullet, or is it a blue quail d'Anver cockerel like I first thought?

Looking at video stills, I can see some long saddle feathers, so maybe it is a cockerel with a small, flat comb. What do you think?

Have another chick that I thought was a Blue Quail d'Anver cockerel, but he has a red single comb, so now I think he's an Easter Egger. Can anyone confirm? (He now has bigger cheek muffs.) He might have been one of the tiny chicks I couldn't identify, the other might have been the d'Anver pullet.

White Crested Black Polish Bantam chick 1 and 3 are pullets and chick 2 is a cockerel. (he sold with a Brabanter pullet) It's funny that the pullets got amuch larger, crazier crest than the cockerel.
Chick 1 - pullet

Chick 2 - cockerel

Chick 3 - pullet

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Bantam chicks, the 3 are cockerels. (still available) The runt has finally feathered out at 9 weeks old.
Chick 1 - cockerel

Chick 2 - cockerel

Chick 3 - cockerel (runt)

I still don't know if those 2 last tiny chicks (photos from my 1st post) were the blue mille fleur d'Anver, or maybe they were Buff Sebright, though I got 4 Buff Sebright and of those 4, only 1 is a pullet and 3 are cockerels. Here is the 1 Blue Quail d'Anver pullet with the puffy cheeks (which I'm keeping). Her color is very light, similar to a buff. The chicks next to her are either mille fleur Old English Game bantam pullets.

Of the female chicks I'm keeping, the Buff Sebright, Golden Neck and Blue Mille Fleur Old English Game Bantam, and Golden Neck d'Uccle pullets have similar feather coloring to the Blue Quail d'Anver pullet.

It took me several hours to add all these photos on this post, so I might not add the photos of the rest of the chicks. I'll add them if I have the time and energy. Here's link to photo album with stills from video taken June 25, where you can see all the chicks: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZDN7JZ2t9GnC19Gx8

 

[Amer]

Chick 2 is a cockerel based on the color. The chick with a beard and single comb is a d’Anvers. They occasionally get single combs. The last one is a d’Anvers pullet and I don’t know what the buff next to her is.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Sorry I haven't added the photos of the rest of the chicks, and it's taken me so long to update. Between not being able to edit the original post after the first day, and being super busy and tired, I haven't been able to make the time to add the rest of the photos and an update on the chicks.

For being my first chicks that I get at 2 days old, I did pretty good at identifying them and even at sexing them. Here's an update, for the chicks I have shared a photo of. These photos were taken on June 14, so I need to take new photos to show how awesome the teenage chicks look now. Of the chicks that I'd shared the photos:

White Sultan is a pullet. (I'm keeping)
She's beautiful but very shy.
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Mottled Cochin Bantam chick 1 and 2 are pullets (keeping both), and chick 3, the smallest, is a cockerel. (he sold)
Chick 1 - pullet
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Chick 2 - pullet
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Chick 3 - cockerel
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White Frizzled Cochin Bantam chick 1, the largest, is a pullet, chick 2 and 3 are cockerels. (still available)
Chick 1 - pullet
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Chick 2 - cockerel
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Chick 3 - cockerel
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Black Silkie I think is a cockerel. (sold)
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Blue Silkies are actually Black, and I think both might be pullets (one developed a slight crossed beak, I gave her away to a customer).
Chick 1 - pullet
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Chick 2 - pullet (crossed beak)
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Of the White Silkie chicks, 1 was a cockerel for sure, the other 2 seem like pullets. (all 3 sold)
Chick 1 - cockerel
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Chick 2 - pullet
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Chick 3 - pullet
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Chick 2 I wanted to keep, she turned out a bearded beauty, but a customer fell in love with her and persisted until he convinced me to sell her to him. I wish I had kept her, and wish I had taken photos of her before she left, she had a full crest and beard. Here's a still from a video from June 25:
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Of the Easter Egger Bantam chicks, chick 1 is a cockerel and chick 2 I think is a pullet. Notice the eye marking on chick 1.
Chick 1 - cockerel
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Chick 2 - pullet or cockerel? (Easter Egger or blue quail d'Anver?)
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For a while I thought chick 2 must be a cockerel, because her comb's salmon color, but comb is flat and fshe has not crowed or exhibited cockerel behavior. Most of the bantam cockerels started crowing at 8-9 weeks old. Maybe someone can confirm the sex and breed of this chick. Is it an Easter Egger bantam pullet, or is it a blue quail d'Anver cockerel like I first thought?

Looking at video stills, I can see some long saddle feathers, so maybe it is a cockerel with a small, flat comb. What do you think?
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Have another chick that I thought was a Blue Quail d'Anver cockerel, but he has a red single comb, so now I think he's an Easter Egger. Can anyone confirm? (He now has bigger cheek muffs.) He might have been one of the tiny chicks I couldn't identify, the other might have been the d'Anver pullet.
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White Crested Black Polish Bantam chick 1 and 3 are pullets and chick 2 is a cockerel. (he sold with a Brabanter pullet) It's funny that the pullets got amuch larger, crazier crest than the cockerel.
Chick 1 - pullet
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Chick 2 - cockerel
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Chick 3 - pullet
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Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Bantam chicks, the 3 are cockerels. (still available) The runt has finally feathered out at 9 weeks old.
Chick 1 - cockerel
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Chick 2 - cockerel
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Chick 3 - cockerel (runt)
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I still don't know if those 2 last tiny chicks (photos from my 1st post) were the blue mille fleur d'Anver, or maybe they were Buff Sebright, though I got 4 Buff Sebright and of those 4, only 1 is a pullet and 3 are cockerels. Here is the 1 Blue Quail d'Anver pullet with the puffy cheeks (which I'm keeping). Her color is very light, similar to a buff. The chicks next to her are either mille fleur Old English Game bantam pullets.
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Of the female chicks I'm keeping, the Buff Sebright, Golden Neck and Blue Mille Fleur Old English Game Bantam, and Golden Neck d'Uccle pullets have similar feather coloring to the Blue Quail d'Anver pullet.

It took me several hours to add all these photos on this post, so I might not add the photos of the rest of the chicks. I'll add them if I have the time and energy. Here's link to photo album with stills from video taken June 25, where you can see all the chicks: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZDN7JZ2t9GnC19Gx8

Bantam Easter eggers can have rose combs (and walnut combs) on occasion, so I’m pretty sure chick #2 is an Easter egger. The single combed bearded cockerel is a d’anver. The last bearded pullet with a rose comb could be an EE bantam as well. The wyandotte bantams are splash laced red, not blue laced red.

 

[yakitori]

wow, that's quite the order, such an exciting variety as well!
What will you do with the roos if they don't sell?

 

[FoxySonia]

Bantam Easter eggers can have rose combs (and walnut combs) on occasion, so I’m pretty sure chick #2 is an Easter egger. The single combed bearded cockerel is a d’anver. The last bearded pullet with a rose comb could be an EE bantam as well. The wyandotte bantams are splash laced red, not blue laced red.

Thanks, I agree about the Easter Egger with the rose comb, and now I'm pretty sure it is a cockerel, and he's gorgeous. Sadly, I couldn't keep him, so yesterday I gave him, and 6 other cockerels, away for free to 3 persons (1 a previous customer) from Long Beach, NY. The bearded buff colored bantam pullet is a d'Anver, the reason I'msure is because I purchasedjust 2 Easter Egger bantams and those turned out to be cockerels. The bantam Wyandotte cockerel were sold as blue laced red. All these chicks are from Ideal Poultry.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Thanks, I agree about the Easter Egger with the rose comb, and now I'm pretty sure it is a cockerel, and he's gorgeous. Sadly, I couldn't keep him, so yesterday I gave him, and 6 other cockerels, away for free to 3 persons (1 a previous customer) from Long Beach, NY. The bearded buff colored bantam pullet is a d'Anver. The bantam Wyandotte cockerel were sold as blue laced red. All these chicks are from Ideal Poultry.

Blue laced red as a coloration doesn’t breed true. Blue laced red x blue laced red produces 50% blue laced red, 25% splash laced red, and 25% black laced red. Usually this breeding is still sold as blue laced red despite the variety of results you can get.

 

[FoxySonia]

wow, that's quite the order, such an exciting variety as well!
What will you do with the roos if they don't sell?

I love my collection of pretty bantam pullets, a Salmon Favorole, a blue splash Maran, Brabanters and Appenzeller Spitzhauben girls, as well as my loverboy, golden neck Old English Game bantam cockerel, Sweetpea. Here he is with Bluebelle:

As for the cockerels, I needed to get rid of a few ASAP, to lighten my load (mainly financially, since the Scratch and Peck Organic and Glubbly Little Pecks starter/grower feee is quite expensive), and to hopefully stop the constant pecking and squabbling among them, so yesterday I gave away 7. I was offering the 3 Wyandotte bantam cockerels and 1 Easter Egger bantam cockerel for free to whoever wanted them, and contacted the people that had already purchased chicks from me. One of them, a man that had purchased 3 chicks, came with one of his neighbors and her brother. He gifted me a large dog crate, and I gave him the prettiest of the Easter Egger bantam and one of the white Frizzle Cochin bantam cockerels. His neighbor took the other Easter Egger bantam and white Frizzle Cochin bantam cockerels, as well as a golden neck Barbu d'Uccle I had named Popcorn, and she purchased 1 silver spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben pullet, and her brother took a mille fleur Barbu d'Uccle and another cockerel, I think a golden neck Old English Game bantam.

I still have about 12 or 13 cockerels (1 golden neck and 1 blue mille fleur Old English Game Bantams, 1 mille fleur and 1 golden neck Barbu d'Uccle, 1 blue quail d'Anver (single comb), 3 buff Sebright and the 3 blue laces red Wyandotte bantam, and 2 black Silkie cockerels. I might have at least 3 more, a cream Brabanter, white Silkie (single comb) and maybe a blue and/or a paint Silkie, but I intend to hold on to those until they start to crow. I'm hoping to be able to sell a few more for cheap ($15) to help with the cost of feed, except the Wyandotte knuckle head brothers can go for free.

Here's current (from today) photos of the ones available:

The bantam Wyandotte in the foreground is the runt, he finally feathered out at 2 months old, the 2 behind him are his larger brothers:

Here's the runt between his 2 brothers:

This buff Sebright is currently the Alpha, he's the same size as the Wyandotte runt, and has semi curly feathers.

Here is the Beta Sebright next to the runt:

 

[Ladybird CA]

I thought your main concern would be crowing. At least that was my biggest anxiety having 3 crowing roosters who were constantly crowing at 4am when they were 2 months old. I gave them away immediately. Maybe yours aren't as loud for some reason. There was a lady and her mom who got 6 that they said would be pets and told me to marry a farmer. Almost a decade later I married just the opposite so I don't know when I'll finally be able to have a bunch of bantam roos again.

Looks like you have 1 blue laced red wyandotte and 2 splash laced. They're all adorable. Did Ideal charge you $1 extra for each different kind? or is it $2...been about 6 years since I made a hatchery order.

 

[Ladybird CA]

I meant 3 crowing cockerels but I had more that weren't yet crowing.