May need to change my Signature. NHR or "Hoover Hatchery Rainbow"???

[U_Stormcrow]

OK, backstory. 9 weeks ago, though I knew that TSC "isn't great" about correctly labeling its birds, I bought 8 chicks, all nondescript soft solid yellow in color with no dots, stripes, or other markings. They were labelled "Rainbow Pullets" - Rainbow, I understood at the time, just meant a selection of egglayers, no guarantee of any particular breed. Such as Meyer's "Rainbow Layer Assortment". Later I found that Hoover Hatchery was source for TSC's chicks, and they also have a "Rainbow" - the associated picture, once again, looks like a host of breeds.

SO I waited patiently, combed the internet, and watched my birds grow up, take on more adult colors. They are all identical, and I **thought** that the luck of the draw had resulted in my purchase of 8 NHRs. A week of reading threads on this site, and I come to understand - notwithstanding the picture on HH' website - that their "Rainbows" are, functionally, a "breed" of barnyard mixes which they have maintained for years and continued to breed back into itself. I've looked at some of the pictures in those posts, and decided I lack the skill to tell an HH "Rainbow" from an NHR.

HELP??? (all the same bird, typical of the other 7...) and how do you tell, short DNA typing, them apart?


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[Kaesi2020]

OK, backstory. 9 weeks ago, though I knew that TSC "isn't great" about correctly labeling its birds, I bought 8 chicks, all nondescript soft solid yellow in color with no dots, stripes, or other markings. They were labelled "Rainbow Pullets" - Rainbow, I understood at the time, just meant a selection of egglayers, no guarantee of any particular breed. Such as Meyer's "Rainbow Layer Assortment". Later I found that Hoover Hatchery was source for TSC's chicks, and they also have a "Rainbow" - the associated picture, once again, looks like a host of breeds.

SO I waited patiently, combed the internet, and watched my birds grow up, take on more adult colors. They are all identical, and I **thought** that the luck of the draw had resulted in my purchase of 8 NHRs. A week of reading threads on this site, and I come to understand - notwithstanding the picture on HH' website - that their "Rainbows" are, functionally, a "breed" of barnyard mixes which they have maintained for years and continued to breed back into itself. I've looked at some of the pictures in those posts, and decided I lack the skill to tell an HH "Rainbow" from an NHR.

HELP??? (all the same bird, typical of the other 7...) and how do you tell, short DNA typing, them apart?


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Just wanted to say beautiful bird! Looks like my red sex links (just less white) that I got from TSC but I am by no stretch of the imagination able to say what yours is. Mostly just wanted to comment on the picture! Hope you get your questions answered.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

@Kaesi2020 Thanks! She's not the one of this batch I'm most proud of - some of the others are a bight weightier, a bit wider all around, but she was the least camera shy. I hope my Gold Sex Links from TSC turn out as pretty as your Red. Right now, I'd describe them as my ugliest breed (after the Cornish Butterballs).

and on that note, I need to encourage them ou of the back pasture and into their run before I shower and start on dinner. Have a great evening!