Victoria Peckham
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Can you help me ID my hens?
We have six 6 1/2 month old chicks, some of whom the store had in the wrong bins.
I thought I had figured out what breeds they all are, but was corrected in another thread by https://www.backyardchickens.com/members/ilovemychicks08.609587/
I think @Ilovemychicks08 is correct that what we thought was a Black Australorp is not. Now I’m questioning almost all of our breeds!
What we thought we bought:
2 bantam EE (confirmed by small bluish green eggs)
3 Olive Eggers
1 Black Australorp (developed leg feathers early on, so we decided she is an OE)
1 Chocolate Orpington (became darker black, so we decided she was the Australorp)
We are confident that the chick we bought the next month is indeed a Golden Buff (aka Golden Comet…)
Pics of all (some pics are before their combs came in or turned red. We think they are all laying now, I could post a better pic of eggs if helpful)
Maggie, feathered feet, Olive Egger?
Juliet’s blue black feathers
Olive Egger
Dove, with Juliet in background
Juliet ???
two days old
From small local garden store. Might have their own hatchery? Ours were Aug and Sept hatch. The website was mistaken - the EEs were all bantam
We have six 6 1/2 month old chicks, some of whom the store had in the wrong bins.
I thought I had figured out what breeds they all are, but was corrected in another thread by https://www.backyardchickens.com/members/ilovemychicks08.609587/
I think @Ilovemychicks08 is correct that what we thought was a Black Australorp is not. Now I’m questioning almost all of our breeds!
What we thought we bought:
2 bantam EE (confirmed by small bluish green eggs)
3 Olive Eggers
1 Black Australorp (developed leg feathers early on, so we decided she is an OE)
1 Chocolate Orpington (became darker black, so we decided she was the Australorp)
We are confident that the chick we bought the next month is indeed a Golden Buff (aka Golden Comet…)
Pics of all (some pics are before their combs came in or turned red. We think they are all laying now, I could post a better pic of eggs if helpful)
Maggie, feathered feet, Olive Egger?
Juliet’s blue black feathers
Olive Egger
Dove, with Juliet in background
Juliet ???
two days old
From small local garden store. Might have their own hatchery? Ours were Aug and Sept hatch. The website was mistaken - the EEs were all bantam
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) Have you discovered more about her? And do you know what color her eggs are?
