Mystery Bantam chicks - white with unusual black facial/head markings

[Birdgirl]

I might be wrong but just becasue they don't have exact matching markings doesn't mean they aren't that breed right. I mean I'm white but I didn't look like everyone else when I was born. Everyone if different and as far as I'm concerned so all animals, including chickens. I can promise you one thing for certain. The feed/farm/grain stores don't know anything about chickens.(well most of them) They pry labeled them wrong. I think it's one of the three things I mentioned. I am wondering tho(I may have missed it) What do their combs look like. That might be another thing to go off of.... I'm so curious to know. I want to see more pics!

 

[chickenwhisperer123]

You are correct that every chick looks different.
If you are saying that what the chick looks like when its little determines nothing then you coulnt be more wrong.
Just my 2 cents!! (I gotta do that sometimes!)

Jason

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

If you look at the photos of silver campine chicks on feathersite, the ones with very little mahogany are the pullets. There is quite a difference in looks between the female & male.

I personally don't have any experience with campines, but the one posted looks very like the silver campine pullets.

 

[Birdgirl]

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What are you saying? I dont undertand some of your wording? lol I'm blonde?

NO I'm saying you can tell alot by the markings, but I'm not for sure what they are, and neighter is anybody else, really, But I think its one of the 3 things I mentioned on the first page. ( Silver laced wyndotte, buttercup, or silver campine)

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

They do look a lot like the Campine links that were provided by others. I am definitely no expert because I am new at raising chickens. I just wanted to comment that they are very pretty chicks, whatever the breed is.

 

[joerogrz]

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What are you saying? I dont undertand some of your wording? lol I'm blonde?

I added some punctuation in there... He mean's that you are wrong if you think that what a chick looks like when it's little determines nothing.

He is saying that you can determine some things when a chick is little.

I'm just an interpreter.... I have no idea what the chicks are or where this guy is coming from when he says what he says....

 

[chickenwhisperer123]

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What are you saying? I dont undertand some of your wording? lol I'm blonde?

I added some punctuation in there... He mean's that you are wrong if you think that what a chick looks like when it's little determines nothing.

He is saying that you can determine some things when a chick is little.

I'm just an interpreter.... I have no idea what the chicks are or where this guy is coming from when he says what he says....

Thanks, I didnt know I was hard to understand.

 

[nospringchicken39]

Photo I found of OEG Bantam chicks...

They don't look like those chicks...

From this page of various OEG Bantams and chick pictures , most of them appear to have some sort of striping on their backs or looking solid-coloured, albeit some with gradients. Still looking for chicks with anything remotely like black on white like mine...

 

[nospringchicken39]

UPDATE: The two chicks have now developed a teeny-tiny bit of red-brown/almost mahogany -- what little is there has 'erupted' in the center of what was black - and what red-brown/almost mahogany that can be seen with the naked eye (under strong light) remains surrounded by black/not touching the white.

sorry no picture(s) of this new development in the colouring (which has come in after wing feathers have become more prominent), but my other half has returned now and once things settle down, I will snag the digital camera (now that it's here I should say, instead of up in NY, NJ, etc.) and try to get some close-ups of these small bits of colour-eruption...

That is very interesting about silver campine pullets having less of the mahogany... that may be the case here... I can't remember (braindead this week) but they come as a Bantam? Or was that only the OE-??- game that comes as a Bantam and looks much like the Silver Campines? If the lesser degree of mahogany indicates pullets, they may both be such then and no cockerel to go with them...

 

[Birdgirl]

any picture updates?