Isa Brown’s

[chicky1016]

So I got 4 at TSC, (3 pictured), they’re about 2 and a half weeks old now. The one in the first pic has all white wings and tail while the others have a lot more brown in them. The one in question is the same size as the others, legs are not thick and no red comb or waddles protruding yet. Please tell me I still have all girls...

 

[JedJackson]

If it is really an ISA brown then it is possibly a male, but isn't the point of that type of chicken the fact that they are easily sexed? I don't know why they would have a male in with the females.

It may be that you just have an unusually pale female, or it may be an entirely different breed. I would give the bird time to feather out before getting worried.

 

[chicky1016]

If it is really an ISA brown then it is possibly a male, but isn't the point of that type of chicken the fact that they are easily sexed? I don't know why they would have a male in with the females.

It may be that you just have an unusually pale female, or it may be an entirely different breed. I would give the bird time to feather out before getting worried.

They all looked exactly the same when I purchased them. They’re starting to get coloring to their feathers and this one is mostly white. I will give it some more time.

 

[chicky1016]

Updated, 3 weeks 5 days old. Still a hen? It’s the chick in the front.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Compared to the others... what color down did it have when you bought it? Was it true yellow? or orangy yellow?

 

[chicky1016]

Compared to the others... what color down did it have when you bought it? Was it true yellow? or orangy yellow?

It was like an orangey/brown/ yellowy color, all four chicks were exactly the same color could not tell them apart from one another. That’s what has me confused because all of a sudden this one now has a ton of white.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

It was like an orangey/brown/ yellowy color, all four chicks were exactly the same color could not tell them apart from one another. That’s what has me confused because all of a sudden this one now has a ton of white.

if this is truly an ISA, then this is a female, and can be nothing else. ISAs are another red sex link. All females will hatch that color, all males will hatch yellow; and can be nothing else. Its a genetic impossibility. She's just got more white than most, but still a pullet.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

All pullets, my bet is that the white one is an Amberlink, another kind of sex link

 

[galaga6846]

If it is really an ISA brown then it is possibly a male, but isn't the point of that type of chicken the fact that they are easily sexed? I don't know why they would have a male in with the females.

It may be that you just have an unusually pale female, or it may be an entirely different breed. I would give the bird time to feather out before getting worried.

I have a chicken that is supposed to be an ISA Brown, and lays the exact same color and size eggs as our other ISA Brown hen, but she is light in color. Some here have said she's an Easter Egger, but her comb, features, size, shape, and eggs indicate that she too is an ISA Brown. What did this chicken end up looking like? Here is my ISA "Blonde"