Leghorn or White Rock?

[2Sesslers]

I got 6 lovely pullets from my local TSC (wont be doing that again - chalk it up to rookie mistake) and they are all identical. Leghorn or White Rock?

 

[Chickenman76]

How old? They definitely look like leghorn, if they have a white earlobe they are leghorn

 

[2Sesslers]

5-7 weeks - not sure how old they were when I got them 4 weeks ago.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Look at the earlobes. Leghorns have extremely large white earlobes, sometimes with a slight bluish cast to them. White Rocks will have feathers growing on their earlobes, and Leghorns will not. Plymouth Rocks will feel "meaty" when you pick them up; Leghorns will be all feathers and bone.

 

[2Sesslers]

They definitely feel meaty to me, but I am a Rookie. I was holding one of them yesterday in my blind effort to make them a little more friendly [being I failed miserably at holding them when they were chicks for fear of squashing them or breaking a wing] - and I noticed she had little tiny feathers growing over the ear -- if the ear is the little circle on the side of their head. Leghorns and White Rocks are so similar looking it is hard to tell, but I think they are pretty meaty for being 5-7 weeks old!

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

They definitely feel meaty to me, but I am a Rookie. I was holding one of them yesterday in my blind effort to make them a little more friendly [being I failed miserably at holding them when they were chicks for fear of squashing them or breaking a wing] - and I noticed she had little tiny feathers growing over the ear -- if the ear is the little circle on the side of their head. Leghorns and White Rocks are so similar looking it is hard to tell, but I think they are pretty meaty for being 5-7 weeks old!

If there are feathers growing over the ear, then you have white Rocks.

 

[Chickenman76]

Lol, non of my leghorns have a bluish tent

And I'm yet to see a bluish tent in leghorns, Iv'e seen it in Orpingtons and Silkies but never leghorns sorry

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Lol, non of my leghorns have a bluish tent

And I'm yet to see a bluish tent in leghorns, Iv'e seen it in Orpingtons and Silkies but never leghorns sorry

Not sure why I get LOLs from you--I have a bunch of white Leghorns (Ideal 236) and they all have a slightly bluish tint. No need for you to be rude, just because it's something YOU'VE never seen.

 

[jamie7100]

Not sure why I get LOLs from you--I have a bunch of white Leghorns (Ideal 236) and they all have a slightly bluish tint. No need for you to be rude, just because it's something YOU'VE never seen.

The White Leghorn rooster that I had last year had a bluish tint to its ear as well.

 

[Chickenman76]

Not sure why I get LOLs from you--I have a bunch of white Leghorns (Ideal 236) and they all have a slightly bluish tint. No need for you to be rude, just because it's something YOU'VE never seen.

Not being rude, just telling the truth lol