My Unknown Chicks, Week 3

[3KillerBs]

I now seem to have 2 of these sort-of-barred blue boys -- presuming boy due to the combs popping up conspicuously.

Here's Blue Band (who does seem to have a spot on his head but not so much barring on the wings):

And Red Band:

 

[3KillerBs]

And the Red Chick (whom my son named Hot Wings),

Looking like a Speckled Sussex?

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Male Sapphire Gems, and a RIR?

 

[Iluveggers]

My Sapphire has a large (albeit yellow) comb when she was young...I think it’s too early to tell.

 

[5 Points Wingfeather]

Here was my Sussex at 2 weeks (ish) so I think yours might be something else?

 

[3KillerBs]

Welp does not carry Sapphire Gems.

They do have a thing called a Blue Plymouth Tint -- which I actually tried to order but which I was told were not hatched on the same dates as the Blue Australorps. Of course they could have changed that due to demand.

Time will tell.

 

[Painted Calls]

I see a definite head spot on the one blue chick. If they don't carry Gems, they are definite the "Blue Plymouth Tints". I can decide if they or both barred or the one is just showing the typical blue darker edges/areas.

The red chick is either a RIR or a Production Red.

 

[3KillerBs]

I see a definite head spot on the one blue chick. If they don't carry Gems, they are definite the "Blue Plymouth Tints". I can decide if they or both barred or the one is just showing the typical blue darker edges/areas.

The red chick is either a RIR or a Production Red.

I looked through all my older photos again. That head spot was not visible before -- which explains how he got into the all-pullet assortment. Strangely, he's the one with the less-clear barring.

So the red chick will lose the speckled pattern as she grows then?

 

[JedJackson]

Neither of the blue ones look barred to me, but the head spot on the one probably means it is either a blue tint male, or what Welp calls 'blue cuckoo Marans' male.

The red looks like a typical production RIR to me.

 

[Painted Calls]

So the red chick will lose the speckled pattern as she grows then?

Correct!