Mystery chick

[meetthebubus]

I had a rescue chick, I put little stuff animals with her to sleep with at night and held her a lot until she was well enough to go out with the big ones, but still separate, now she is roaming with them.. just a story for it can be done, and tip with the teddy bear! good luck! (Below pic)

 

[Duckymark]

When I got chicks last i got mixed breeds. 2 breeds were yellow chicks. I could only tell them apart because one breed had extra toes. None of the breeds were different sizes. I had brown leghorns, CX, polish and favorolles. My great grandpa keep commercial egg laying white leghorns in the 40s through the 70s. Still possible to be a leghorn. I've been posting videos of my CX and brown leghorns weekly on youtube and linking on another thread. They might help you identify your chick's breed. The size difference at 1 week is noticeable and at 2 weeks is extreme.

 

[aart]

I told her one chick was not ideal.

I would have told her to give it back to where it came from...
...if the guy didn't want it for snake food, he should have given it straight back.

 

[Elegantenvy]

I had a rescue chick, I put little stuff animals with her to sleep with at night and held her a lot until she was well enough to go out with the big ones, but still separate, now she is roaming with them.. just a story for it can be done, and tip with the teddy bear! good luck! (Below pic)
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That's exactly what I did. I stuck a stuffed animal in there for now.

 

[Elegantenvy]

I would have told her to give it back to where it came from...
...if the guy didn't want it for snake food, he should have given it straight back.

By then it probably would have died. This was 1030 at night I got the call. Already hours without a heat lamp. Better to have a life with me than eaten by a snake or froze/starved to death.

 

[Elegantenvy]

When I got chicks last i got mixed breeds. 2 breeds were yellow chicks. I could only tell them apart because one breed had extra toes. None of the breeds were different sizes. I had brown leghorns, CX, polish and favorolles. My great grandpa keep commercial egg laying white leghorns in the 40s through the 70s. Still possible to be a leghorn. I've been posting videos of my CX and brown leghorns weekly on youtube and linking on another thread. They might help you identify your chick's breed. The size difference at 1 week is noticeable and at 2 weeks is extreme.

I'm holding onto hope that it works out that way!

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

I do not think it is a Cornish Rock. It looks like a silkie to me... The extra fluff may mean it is a Silkie.

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

Where was it bought?

 

[Elegantenvy]

I do not think it is a Cornish Rock. It looks like a silkie to me... The extra fluff may mean it is a Silkie.

It wasn't bought. A friend of my cousins brought it to her house to feed to a snake. They refused and ended up with it. Apparently the person works on a local farm. That's all I know. :/

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

Hmmmmm... Could be a laying breed?
is is it maybe a leghorn?

Here is some info: https://livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/leghorn