Newbie alert... Need Help

[jkiller40]

Can you tell me what bread and if they are roos or hens? I believe they are about.... 16 weeks old. (the white ones) Wyndonettes?

 

[donrae]

Not wyandottes.

Can you get better pics? I can't see what the comb is, is it a floppy straight comb (which would probably mean leghorn) or a different type of comb? But they really don't look like leghorns, they look like a game type body. Where did you get them?

 

[jkiller40]

I got them at a feed store in TX. One has a floppy comb over it's right eye. The other one has a straight comb but it's really small. The one with the small comb stands up really straight very often. Neither seems to have spurs on their legs, but I don't know when a Roo starts growing them or what age?

 

[donrae]

The floppy comb makes me think leghorn, but a better pic would help. At 16 weeks, the floppy-combed girl would just now be at the earliest laying age, you might see white eggs in the next few weeks. If the other bird is the same breed, she's just slower to mature. I do think they're both female, pending better pics that might prove me wrong

 

[ramirezframing]

With white legs, I want to say maybe a leghorn mix, better pictures would help alot.

 

[GimmeCake]

Welcome to BYC!

I'd say white leghorns. I can't be too sure because the images are kinda blurry.

Do they look like this?

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Since the birds have differently colored legs, I think perhaps you have two different breeds that looked identical as chicks, so the feed store mixed them up. The one with the floppy comb is not a white Leghorn because of the black feathers near the tail. I think it's a California White instead. The one with the yellow legs looks like a white Leghorn to me. Not all white Leghorn combs will flop over the eye. Of course, she could also be a Cali White that just didn't get any black spots.

 

[GimmeCake]

Haha, I'd hate to have a bunch of phone calls of people saying I sold some chicks off as the wrong breed!

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Haha, I'd hate to have a bunch of phone calls of people saying I sold some chicks off as the wrong breed!

Haven't you read all the posts every spring from people getting chicks home from the feed store, deciding they are growing strangely, and posting them here? There was one poor guy that bought 50 white Cornish X broilers, and couldn't get weight on them. Found out the feed store sold him 50 white Leghorn pullets!

 

[ramirezframing]

Haven't you read all the posts every spring from people getting chicks home from the feed store, deciding they are growing strangely, and posting them here? There was one poor guy that bought 50 white Cornish X broilers, and couldn't get weight on them. Found out the feed store sold him 50 white Leghorn pullets!

That's alot of eggs