Starlight Green Eggers?

[Hreamy19]

Bought 3 new chicks today to add to the dozen we bought 3 days ago. The breed name listed on the pen they were in at the farm store was "Starlight Green Egger". Since I am looking for colorful egg layers, I am excited about these 3! But when I got home and Googled the breed to see what the grown chickens and their eggs look like, I found only one photo showing a brown hen and one photo of chicks, all yellow or light brown in color. The chicks I purchased are all black and white/cream and I'm thinking maybe they were mislabeled? The only thing I can find that looks close are black copper marans chicks, which I would be absolutely thrilled to have, but I'm not sure that's what they are, either. Can anyone help identify them?

 

[eldridgebrood]

I got a bunch of starlights today and while there was quite the variety of markings and color variations, NONE of then were black at all...those do look like marans to me.
Here are my nuggets

 

[Lacey Gardner]

Oh good to know! If you have ant pictures from 4 to 6 weeks I would love to see how they developed as their seems to be much debate on how quickly their combs and wattles grow and turn red

Here is my girl at 12 weeks. No saddle feathers! So still pretty sure she is a hen. She started getting red wattles and comb very early.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Sooooooo......yes starlight green eggers are a mix so can vary WIDELY.

Those however look strikingly like Black Australorp chicks.

To get all 3 looking that similar with a mixed breed bird type would have me questioning it too.

Can you find out what other breeds the store had in at the time you purchased yours?

Mine as chicks were chipmunk striped. Mine grew to both be red with small black markings like a new Hampshire chicken. Both are lightweight like leghorns and lay pretty green eggs.

 

[Lacey Gardner]

View attachment 2276545View attachment 2276549
I got these girls as Starlight Green Eggers 10 weeks ago also from Rural King! I am so confused!

I have two starlight eggers from the same place that look very different I think since they are mixed birds it can vary in what they look like. or maybe I just have one starlight egger and I haven’t realized it yet. but the place I got them from is pretty good. I’ve never had a mix up.

 

[Lacey Gardner]

We got our first egg from our starlight green she is roughly 21 weeks! We are just so excited!

 

[janiedoe]

I believe that starlight green eggers are from Hoover hatchery. They a type of easter egger. They are a cross of a brown egger and a blue egger so they can look like pretty much anything.
Enjoy.

 

[Panhandler80]

Time will tell!

Yeah, brown egger and blue egger cross.

 

[21hens-incharge]

They had midnight marans, welsummer, ISA brown, polish crested, amberlink, Easter eggers, barred rocks, Rhode Island Red, Sapphire Gem, and banty mix. There were at least 20 in the bin with these and they all looked very much alike.

I do think you got the Marans. Are there any feathers on their legs!

https://hoovershatchery.com/midnightmajestymaran.html

 

[eldridgebrood]

Did all of these turn out to be hens?

Yes they all are. But not laying yet, we have a couple weeks still.