Please help me to identify our yellow chickens!

[Splashed Silkies]

Looks as though they're Buff Orpingtons. Are their legs pink?

~Alex

Yes they are, but it seems to be a very pale shade of pink.

 

[Splashed Silkies]

Maybe ISA browns?
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/isa-brown-chicken-sold-in-quantities-of-10

This is the description from the webpage:
"The ISA Brown chicken is considered a prolific egg layer. It is a docile bird, and extremely easy to work with. When baby chicks are hatched, they are brownish - red and white. When mature the feathering is mostly golden brown with spots of white throughout their body. Hens lay a very large brown egg with excellent shell quality.

• Bird Purpose: Egg layer
• Egg Production Rate: Females ONLY; Ranges from 264-285 eggs/year
• Egg Color: Brown
• Egg Size: Large
• Ideal Environment: Coop/Free range
• Bird Personality: Docile
• Conservancy Status: Domestic
• Bird Color: As a chick, the birds are brownish - red and white. When mature, the feathering is mostly golden brown with spots of white throughout the body.
• Mature Weight: Ranges approximately 4 to 4.5 lb. at full maturity

I don't think the ISA Browns are a match, unfortunately. We have one in our flock and she is very red!

 

[Splashed Silkies]

What did they look like as chicks?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/26u3fgrwssap0ne/Photo Jun 18, 2 42 54 PM.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w4yc6dh4l481yl0/Photo Jun 18, 2 43 25 PM.jpg?dl=0

Sorry for the horrendous quality, but here they are as chicks! (The yellow ones, of course)

 

[Gray Farms]

Buff Orpington, hatchery type.

 

[Splashed Silkies]

Buff Orpington, hatchery type.

I wasn't aware that there was a "hatchery type," though that sounds interesting. Would you mind explaining the difference between regular ones and hatchery ones?

 

[Gray Farms]

I wasn't aware that there was a "hatchery type," though that sounds interesting. Would you mind explaining the difference between regular ones and hatchery ones?

Orpingtons were developed in England a long time ago. The birds that the hatcheries sell are long descended from these birds but have been bred away from the standard for a faster growing, better laying, smaller more compact bird. The English type birds are nearly twice as big as the American type. And the English take 2 years to reach full size. Where as Americans are fully mature at around 8 months.
American "hatchery" type Orpingtons




English Orpingtons




*not my pics*

 

[drumstick diva]

Many breeds are available at hatcheries and tend to fall short of the SOP, usually look like "sorta breeds."

 

[meetthebubus]

Definitely buff orps basically they aren't show quality which is just fine they are great layers I love my buffs!