Rescued Mystery Chicks

[heathenduchess]

Hi all,
We recently rescued someone’s Easter gift chicks that they no longer want. According to what we were told, they were part of a fancy ornamental assortment from Hoover’s hatchery, and should all be some sort of polish crested. However, except for the white fluffy one, none of the others look like juvenile polish crested a to me—they were also in fairly harsh conditions before we took them, and I know polish crested chicks are notoriously fragile. I also know hatcheries tend to throw in extra chicks as “fillers” sometimes, so I wondered if these could be different breeds than the polish. Any thoughts on what breeds they might be? Should be around 8 weeks old or so…3 pullets and a cockerel.

 

[JedJackson]

Flo might have to be renamed Floyd. I think that is a cockerel. Flo and Lola are Sebrights or Sebright crosses.

Roxy is a silver duckwing old English game bantam.

Zsa Zsa is a white Silkie.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Gold sebrights (one cockerel and one pullet), a silver duckwing OEGB pullet, and a white silkie.

 

[nuthatched]

Good for you to rescue them.
Hoovers is a very poor hatchery, like puppy mill quality, the white one is a silkie, flo is a Cockerel, not sure on breeds.

 

[Kittys Coop]

Good for you to rescue them.
Hoovers is a very poor hatchery, like puppy mill quality, the white one is a silkie, flo is a Cockerel, not sure on breeds.

Couldn't have said it better myself

 

[heathenduchess]

Flo might have to be renamed Floyd. I think that is a cockerel. Flo and Lola are Sebrights or Sebright crosses.

Roxy is a silver duckwing old English game bantam.

Zsa Zsa is a white Silkie.

Yes! Flo is short for Florenz Ziegfeld, and is a cockerel (alas for him, not sure what we’re going to do with the rooster ban in our area ) Thanks so much for the IDs!

 

[heathenduchess]

Couldn't have said it better myself

Good to know about Hoover’s—we’ve never ordered chicks before, just rehomed from neighbors, mostly. Ugh.

 

[Kittys Coop]

Good to know about Hoover’s—we’ve never ordered chicks before, just rehomed from neighbors, mostly. Ugh.

We ordered from them once. We had four die and then heard from other people horror stories.

 

[heathenduchess]

Thanks all for your help! Guess it’s safe to say we don’t have polish cresteds

 

[JedJackson]

Yes! Flo is short for Florenz Ziegfeld, and is a cockerel (alas for him, not sure what we’re going to do with the rooster ban in our area ) Thanks so much for the IDs!

Ah, a historical name. I like it.