Now I'm scared...PLEASE HELP

[quiltnchik]

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Oh yeah, they fly, run after bugs, run after each other...all "normal" chicken things. Can you tell I've gotten attached?!?

We're planning on getting some Cornish X in the fall to raise for meat, and I've already forewarned DH and DS that I will take care of the chicks, but I'm NOT getting attached!!

 

[luvmychicknkids]

While I have never raised meat birds, I am gonna go out on a limb here and say, by THAT description there is NO WAY yours are meat birds.

I REALLY hope not!!! I totally understand. I want to raise meat birds, too, but NOT the babies I love so much. Believe me, getting attached to the ones you don't plan to eat is perfectly normal....alright, maybe I have no clue what is NORMAL....but it sure happens.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

I am not completely sure, but they look like a big plymouth white rock breed. It looks like a RIR got in there somewhere.

I have a BIG girl that has the red spots on her wings and she is an EXCELLENT layer, not to mention not to shy with the bread.

Some plymouth rocks can be HUGE birds. after all this is what a meat bird is mixed with. white rocks and cornish crosses.

Look up what a cornish bird looks like and then look up what the white rocks look like.

I have quite a few white rocks including a GORGEOUS roo and he is HUGE !!!

I would venture to say he is as big as the two New Jersey giant roos I have.

 

[NotTheMomma]

The white with the brown feathers are definitely MALE and are red sex links. The others with the cream down the neck, beats me, but I have three of them as well. They are NOT CORNISH X's! California white is what I was told when I called the hatchery. At first I kept thinking they must have dust bathed in our red clay. roll They are NOT pure white like my White Plymouth Rocks are. They aren't lean like a leghorn is. Sooooo.... The only good thing, mine appear to be pullets! Otherwise, beats me!

They were sold in the pullets bin at TSC. That is mine were. The white with cream colored necks.

Hope that helps some hun. I've been trying to identify mine for months, and the only thing is like I said, California Whites per the hatchery, though I'm doubting that.. but who knows!

I've ruled out what I could, and hope for some eggs to see whether they are white or brown layers! lol!

 

[quiltnchik]

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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Whew! Now I can BREATHE again!

 

[Thomas423]

I haven't seen the pics of your chickens but I can tell you that my white rocks grew faster than the NHRs and now at 12 weeks old the WRs are still larger than the NHRs. Also, at about 6 weeks, one of the WRs became very obviously a roo.....and he was much larger than the 3 pullet WRs. The leghorns are more narrow than all the breeds I have.

 

[SeramaLife]

Maybe this will help?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=148587

 

[quiltnchik]

Ondra's Seramas :

Maybe this will help?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=148587

Not really, but thanks. Check out this thread instead:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=201629