TSC "red" chicks - any ideas?

[booker81]

Second post, yay! I was hoping for any ideas on what I ended up with from the straight pull "Rhode Island" tank at TSC - I've been looking at a lot of pictures and I'm even more clueless than before. I'm guessing some just aren't RIR, but that's OK, I'd just like to know what they are. They were purchased yesterday

The two non stripey ones:

Four stripey ones:

I'm working on better pictures, but the camera phone and chicks don't always cooperate

Thank you!

 

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

They all look like RIR's to me (I own one RIR) but maybe someone with all RIR's will chime in and know for sure.

 

[ams3651]

looks like RIR to me

 

[sheena6292]

I have rir Hampshire comets and production reds. These look like my rirs. But mine are from orschelns so they might not be anything more than mutts.

 

[Chris09]

They look like Hatchery type Rhode Island Reds.

Chris

 

[booker81]

Thank you so much!

Ok, newbie questions - why do the top "non-stripey" ones have wings that are lighter with white feathers coming in, and the others stripey with dark feathers?

 

[Chris09]

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There could be a lot of reason for it. Stress will turn chick feathers a lighter color, could be the line of Rhode Island Red that was used, it could even be that the hatchery crossed a New Hampshire back to a Rhode Island Red..

Chris

 

[ams3651]

mine were like this at first but changed to dark red

 

[Tala]

3 of my first chicks were Assorted Reds from TSC.

The whiteish mixed ones (non stripey) are red sexlinks and will mature golden with white down.
The "stripey" ones will mature solid red, hatchery-quality RIRs (and probably boys if you got them straight run)

 

[booker81]

Post to this too - all are RIR, one roo, 5 pullets. Again, can't remember for my life who is the roo in the baby pics... he just turned roo overnight it seemed!

Of my "grab bag" of straight runs, I ended up with 8 pullet, 4 roo

Not too shabby!