Its like walking on eggshells barefoot!

[Oceanseve]

Yeah!! so glad to see they all made it! So far so good here *knock on wood*

 

[Jen4]

cute babies

 

[amamaofmany]

Thanks!

I'm finally breathing well again!

Have a question for seasoned chicken folks. I have two chicks I cannot identify based on pictures on other websites or out of catalogs.

I've identified the Australorps, the Dorking by her teeny 5th toe, the gold & black laced Wyandotte, black sex links, the Speckled Sussex, Cuckoo Marins and, I think, the Easter Eggers. but I have two chicks that don't seem to go with the 'brown sex link' picture.


One is very pale yellow, almost white with a greyish spot on its head:

One is yellow with a definate red tinge, standing upright facing the waterer. This one has a lighter stripe down its back, still reddish but lighter than the rest of its body. Kinda peachy colored:

These don't look like the pictures of the brown sex links I've seen.
Plus, I thought brown sex link females were all orangy-brown with brown markings on its back, and one is very pale yellow and neither have real distinct markings for a brown sexlink. Just a wee bit of greyish tint on the top of one's head and a pale stripe on the other.

Any ideas? I know that the EEs are probably the chipmunk striped ones you see here & there (as is the one Sussex, but lighter, and the single 5 toed Dorking) as was pointed out to me before - could these be brown sexlinks, with one mis-sexed?

Either that or I have EEs that are pale and brown sex links that are chipmunk striped as I've seen in the pictures.

What do you think?

Edited to better qualify the coloring

 

[Oceanseve]

Not a clue, just wanted to say again, they are awful cute. I'm not letting myself think that way of mine since they are cornish x rocks.... so I'm going to dote on yours, since my other brooder is full of the teenage chicken stage mongrels

 

[chookchick]

The last one "kinda peachy color" with stripes is the speckled sussex. The EES could be very pale, or very dark, as well as the chipmunks! The gold-laced wyandottes are also chipmunks, the colors will be the same on both of those. I think the first one, that you identified as the speckled sussex, is an EE. Not sure about sex-links, but I don't think they have stripes.

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

Ideal also has partridge chanteclers and your chipmink baby may be one of those. There's a picture way at the bottom of the site that might be helpful.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Chant/BRKChanticler.html

Either that or I have NO idea about the one in my brooder!!

My chipmunk baby..

 

[amamaofmany]

Blessed Bovine! There are a LOT of chipmunk colored babies.

Well, I didn't order any chanteclers - so if I have one it snuck in under the radar!

I don't know that the peachy one is a speckled sussex - on the feathersite.com pictures, the speckled chicks look more like the one in my picture. Another chipmunked set! The peachy ones there are identified as Light or Buff. The peachy one could be the brown sex link, too - not quite like the chick pictured on the site, but close.

That light almost white yellow one is a mystery though. I think it has a kind of beard, though - more fuzz under its chin than I noticed. We took it out of the box for a bit while doing pasty-bum inspections and my daughter pointed out its extra under-beak fluff - so maybe it is an EE!

The one with the speckled face could very well be an EE. I just made my best guess as it has speckles already! But I have another little chipmunky one that is darker & stripier that very well could be the sussex, but the speckled one is the largest of the chipmunk chicks.

Anyway - its fun to guess!

 

[amamaofmany]

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I understand. Even though we've named all the marked males after food items, they are with our layers and keep getting picked up and cuddled.

I think we'll have to end up giving them to friends by the time they are getting ready to crow.

We may never be able to pass a KFC sign again without feeling guilty, now that one of the little males is so named!

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

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I did order buff chanteclers so not sure if they were like hmmmm she likes chants.... let's send her another one

 

[chookchick]

When you said the "kinda peachy one" I though you meant the one at bottom right with reddish and dark brown stripes. I know that's a speckled sussex because mine just started feathering out. The EEs will also develop greenish legs.