Identity Crisis!?!?!?! Any help would be appreciated!

[4-H chicken mom]

Missy is definitely a Golden Laced Wyandotte. Cornish have very distinct, ugly looking bodies. They look like meat birds, definitely not a cornish. When in doubt, look up the Standard of Perfection.

 

[barg]

What is the standard of perfection on a glw, I just looked but could'nt find it on the web.
Missy seems a little oddly colord in her feathers for a GLW, doesn't she?

 

[silkiechicken]

She almost looks a bit mixed with a partridge wyandotte but I wouldn't really expect such a large hatchery to have perfectly laced birds. My WLW has some black speckles in the parts that would ordinarily be white.

I don't think it would be a dark cornish simply because those guys got big ugly feet. But maybe one got into the breeder pen a generation or two ago?

 

[barg]

Yeah, thats kinda what I was thinking, maybe mixed with partrige.
Just seems too brown.

 

[silkiechicken]

Lately it seems like there is a lot of brown in birds called golden. I bought a golden sexlink and turned out it was more of a red sexlink! I wanted that golden chicken! Wonder if red is the new golden in chicken attire.

 

[Chickenlover88]

Hatchery birds don't look like they are supposed to. It doesn't look anything like glw to me wrong color and shape. I'm still saying dark cornish. It still has very thick legs for such a young bird but of course I could be wrong...

 

[4-H chicken mom]

Well all of my Golden Laced from McMurray look like that. Birds with patterns like that are very hard to find with correct patterns. McMurray always has really poor quality birds too, thats why I dont order from there anymore.

The Standard of Perfection is a book put out by the American Poultry Association. Its a book that has information and pictures on every known bird, even ducks and turkeys. The pictures are a bit over the top because theyre drawn, but you can get the point. My daughter uses it to study by for fair, and thats also how she identifies so many birds. The book is worth the money.

 

[Frozen Feathers]

I am agreeing w/ 4-H on the GLW. I have ordered SLW from MM in the past and they also didn't have very distinct lacing when they were younger. As they get older the lacing does sometimes get better. Here's a GLW from Feathersite. A match....

 

[barg]

My last word on the subject: Time may tell, and it does have yellow legs, but on my moniter the pullet on feathersite looks like a GLW but missy looks More like EE coloring then GLW coloring... again despite the legs.

So id'e still guess a cross or a breed I'm not familiar with.

GL

 

[JackieK318]

Maybe get a better pick of Missy, but I'd say Cornish also. She has too much green sheen in her feathers.