Some pictures taken today of my mixed flock, showcasing the EEs of course.
They're 39 days old (about five and a half weeks).
It's hard to take individual pictures of them because many don't like being held. So instead I'm taking group shots in the hopes that I get most of them.
The one in the lower left of the picture is, I believe, a duckwing-coloured male. Can anyone confirm the colour? (I know he's a he.)
I'm also wondering what the one standing behind the Barred Rock (behind the aforementioned EE) is in terms of colouration and gender - similar to the male, except the comb is more narrow, has no ridges, and the feathers are more developed. For colouring it's similar to the male but has less white in the wings and doesn't have white on the neck or upper chest, and in the lower chest half the feathers look to be laced with white.
The EE to the right of these chicks I believe is a female, but I'm not 100% sure.
Here's "Sissy", a chick named by my mom when I had the chick in the house at about a week old until two weeks due to a leg injury. Unlike all the other chicks, this one doesn't mind being held. I think Sissy's a girl, but I think I'm seeing hackle feathers... or am I imagining things?
Here's the breakdown of what I have - I ordered a total of nine EEs from Ideal, four pullets and five straight run. It seems that when I picked up my chicks from the group order organizer, I took seven EEs and two possible Dark Cornish with me (not knowing at the time). I received an e-mail earlier today from the organizer showing a picture of two of his mystery chicks and they definitely look like EEs. So a swap may be done in the near future if I identified the two chicks correctly (one of them is in the bottom of the first picture, the second one looks similar).
They're 39 days old (about five and a half weeks).
It's hard to take individual pictures of them because many don't like being held. So instead I'm taking group shots in the hopes that I get most of them.
The one in the lower left of the picture is, I believe, a duckwing-coloured male. Can anyone confirm the colour? (I know he's a he.)
I'm also wondering what the one standing behind the Barred Rock (behind the aforementioned EE) is in terms of colouration and gender - similar to the male, except the comb is more narrow, has no ridges, and the feathers are more developed. For colouring it's similar to the male but has less white in the wings and doesn't have white on the neck or upper chest, and in the lower chest half the feathers look to be laced with white.
The EE to the right of these chicks I believe is a female, but I'm not 100% sure.
Here's "Sissy", a chick named by my mom when I had the chick in the house at about a week old until two weeks due to a leg injury. Unlike all the other chicks, this one doesn't mind being held. I think Sissy's a girl, but I think I'm seeing hackle feathers... or am I imagining things?
Here's the breakdown of what I have - I ordered a total of nine EEs from Ideal, four pullets and five straight run. It seems that when I picked up my chicks from the group order organizer, I took seven EEs and two possible Dark Cornish with me (not knowing at the time). I received an e-mail earlier today from the organizer showing a picture of two of his mystery chicks and they definitely look like EEs. So a swap may be done in the near future if I identified the two chicks correctly (one of them is in the bottom of the first picture, the second one looks similar).
