New Babies... Any clues?

[Keriokeeee]

HI! I just got some chickies as a present. I have read here about how to care for them and they are doing GREAT! Now, to find out WHAT they are...

3 of them look like chipmunks, and are tiny.

1 is bigger than the rest, yellow, with feathered feet, and 5 toes! He is my favorite so far... or is it... SHE... oh well.

and the last are just 4 toed, yellow chickies...

Any ideas?

 

[mama24]

The big one is a sultan. I got one Friday at TSC.

The 3 tiny chipmunks look like my Dutch bantams, but there are also a few other bantams that look like that as babies. Are their legs gray or yellow? It's hard to say what the little yellow one is. How many toes does it have? Clean legs or feathered?

 

[Keriokeeee]

The little yellow has clean legs.

The chipmunks have kind of pinkish/greyish/tiny bit of yellowish legs LOL

I was wondering if the featherd foot could also be a Faverolle? I guess we may need to wait until he/she grows up a bit to tell.

Thanks!!!

Keri

 

[mama24]

No, I have a Faverolle, it's definitely a sultan.

 

[Jack Owl]

The little ones look exactly like BB Red or Old English Bantams.

 

[mama24]

If they have gray legs, they are probably Dutch bantams.

 

[mama24]

Actually, I'm looking at your pic again. Does it have a pouf on its head like this one? (the one on the left, the one on the right is a polish.)

If not, it might be a faverolle. The angle of your pic made me think it had the pouf, but looking again, maybe not. I think the one on the right in this pic is my faverolle, but it might be my white cochin.

Her wing feathers started coming in looking mottled, which is how I figured out she wasn't a houdan or sultan. They came in tan and white w/ a little gray/black. She's the family's favorite chick, she's so calm and sweet. She snuggles up in your hand instead of trying to get away.