Pekin bantam colours

[Zoohtasim]

They are cute! Unfortunately I am terrible at breeds, where did you get them? What breeds are common where you are?

I hatched em! White leghorns are common here. Their mum was a white leghorn (I think) and father was the golden rooster I shared in our convo. They are hybrids, but I think I have seen that baby pattern before but I cant put my beak on where?

 

[SpotTheCat]

I hatched em! White leghorns are common here. Their mum was a white leghorn (I think) and father was the golden rooster I shared in our convo. They are hybrids, but I think I have seen that baby pattern before but I cant put my beak on where?

So you want to know what colour they are?

 

[SpotTheCat]

@Amer @The Moonshiner @NatJ @RoostersAreAwesome

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I got these chicks from someone, they might be mixture of colours, no clue what colour the parents are, I did get shown what the breeder thought chick 2 might look like it was barred, orange and white. any idea what colour they are?

Chick 1
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2
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3 I have three of these, I thought they where black mottled but they have brown patches
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4 actually black mottled? It’s chick down is a lot more silvery then chick 3

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Too young to tell.

 

[SpotTheCat]

Too young to tell.

At what age can you start to tell?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

At what age can you start to tell?

When they’re fully feathered. Sometimes past that, when they lose their juvenile coloring and get their adult feathers.

 

[SpotTheCat]

I hatched em! White leghorns are common here. Their mum was a white leghorn (I think) and father was the golden rooster I shared in our convo. They are hybrids, but I think I have seen that baby pattern before but I cant put my beak on where?

can you post a picture of the father on this thread? maybe somebody can figure out what the colours of the chicks are by what colour the parents are

 

[Zoohtasim]

So you want to know what colour they are?

Yupp

 

[Zoohtasim]

can you post a picture of the father on this thread? maybe somebody can figure out what the colours of the chicks are by what colour the parents are

Okayy here

Thats dad.
Here's mum, she had bad SLM but better now

 

[NatJ]

I hatched em! White leghorns are common here. Their mum was a white leghorn (I think) and father was the golden rooster I shared in our convo. They are hybrids, but I think I have seen that baby pattern before but I cant put my beak on where?

The brown chick with stripes looks like the "wild type" chick color. That means it's what the wild jungle fowl (ancestors of domestic chickens) would have looked like. Sometimes people call them "chipmunk" chicks, too.

Black Breasted Red chickens have chicks that color, as do Welsummers and Brown Leghorns and female Cream Legbars. I've also seen that pattern of down on Dark Cornish chicks, Spangled Russian Orloff chicks, and some Easter Eggers. I'm probably forgetting a few more, too. It's actually pretty common, once you start looking at chicken breeds that are not solid white or black.

Chicks with that color tend to grow up with some pattern of black and brown/red/gold, but they don't all look the same.

Any guesses to the breeds that it can be? I wanna name it something with penguin as it looks like a miniature baby penguin with weird legs.

Chicks that look like a penguin often grow up to be black. If you already know it's a mix, I'm guessing one parent was black, blue, or perhaps white. (Genetically, blue is a modified black, and many whites are also "black" chickens that have a particular gene turning all black to white. So their babies are sometimes black, if they don't get the modifier gene.)