Warning! Cuteness Overload!! Alright my feather loving friends, I have four chickies that I am not s

[aoxa]

Still think Pirate is a Columbian Wyandotte!

Comparing.

 

[aoxa]

Jersey Giant

Comparing the two:

 

[aoxa]

Also think you are right on your Welsummer guess. Male.

Comparing:

 

[dretd]

Am am skeptical about Cheetah being a SS as I see yellow legs and SS have white legs. From the list, I am more inclined to think Dark Cornish.

I am also wondering about the Welsummer roo you have identified. I don't see Welsummers on the list so I am wondering how you came up with that? Am I missing something? For some reason the head-shot seems a little broad for a single comb, kinda looks more rose comb or pea comb to me, but it could be my screen.

 

[amycpf]

Sorry, I ordered 10 RIR's, 1 Welsummer Roo, and them 4 of a mix of brown egg layers. So sorry for the confusion.

 

[amycpf]

Am am skeptical about Cheetah being a SS as I see yellow legs and SS have white legs. From the list, I am more inclined to think Dark Cornish.

I am also wondering about the Welsummer roo you have identified. I don't see Welsummers on the list so I am wondering how you came up with that? Am I missing something? For some reason the head-shot seems a little broad for a single comb, kinda looks more rose comb or pea comb to me, but it could be my screen.

Her legs are a light yellow. The pics of chick feet I see on SS and Dark Cornish look yellow so I guess she may be a wait and see. I will be super happy with either because they both look lovely to me.

 

[aoxa]

Am am skeptical about Cheetah being a SS as I see yellow legs and SS have white legs. From the list, I am more inclined to think Dark Cornish.

I am also wondering about the Welsummer roo you have identified. I don't see Welsummers on the list so I am wondering how you came up with that? Am I missing something? For some reason the head-shot seems a little broad for a single comb, kinda looks more rose comb or pea comb to me, but it could be my screen.

As chicks many SS have yellow legs. Google image it. Almost all do. It's a hatchery - I wouldn't put it past them

It doesn't fit the partridge rock either, which would be the last bet...

Hmm If you got a close up of the comb, that would help.

In a few weeks it would be very easy to choose between the two.

 

[dretd]

As chicks many SS have yellow legs. Google image it. Almost all do. It's a hatchery - I wouldn't put it past them

It doesn't fit the partridge rock either, which would be the last bet...
Hmm If you got a close up of the comb, that would help.
In a few weeks it would be very easy to choose between the two.

I believe you, I have personal experience with only 3 and they all had pinky-white legs (all hatchery stock).

I always have a hard time with photos from the get-go as the color saturation, shadows, reflective light and background can all influence the perceived color and then layer on we look at the photo with our various computer screens that also infuence the color to some degree. Looking at feathersite, there are some chicks that are obviously pinky-white and a light sussex chick with a splotchy colored background that has very bright yellow appearing legs which I am sure are an artifact of all of the above listed problems and possibly yellow legs from teh factory, as it were with even some photo shop thrown in to change the effect.

Perhaps the OP can share if she thinks her baby has yellow or white legs in person?

 

[aoxa]

I believe you, I have personal experience with only 3 and they all had pinky-white legs (all hatchery stock). I always have a hard time with photos from the get-go as the color saturation, shadows, reflective light and background can all influence the perceived color and then layer on we look at the photo with our various computer screens that also infuence the color to some degree. Looking at feathersite, there are some chicks that are obviously pinky-white and a light sussex chick with a splotchy colored background that has very bright yellow appearing legs which I am sure are an artifact of all of the above listed problems and possibly yellow legs from teh factory, as it were with even some photo shop thrown in to change the effect. Perhaps the OP can share if she thinks her baby has yellow or white legs in person?

Pink-whtie legs as chicks? I have a chick I'm thinking of right now (not SS) that had very yellow legs as chicks. Now they are pink. Weird yes?

Day old

Yesterday @ 6 weeks

 

[dretd]

Pink-whtie legs as chicks? I have a chick I'm thinking of right now (not SS) that had very yellow legs as chicks. Now they are pink.
Weird yes?

Day old

Yesterday @ 6 weeks

Thanks for the photos--very cool to see the change. I guess I will have to completely throw out looking at leg color in any chick identification photos from now on.

Can't tell you how many times I have seen a comment from someone saying a chick couldn't be an Orp (I have never had them so can't/won't comment on them) or other white legged breed because it has yellow legs. In comparison to my Welsummers with yellow-yellow legs top and bottom under and over, I considered my SS chicks to be pretty pale but maybe I am delusional.

I wonder if this early color is really more of a staining from the yellow-colored compounds in the yolk that has just been absorbed rather than pigment in the skin and those compounds are metabolized out over the first few weeks of the chick's life revealing the pigments or lack thereof? Sort of like a jaundiced baby is yellow-looking becasue of excessive bilirubin and the yellow goes away once the body gets rid of the compund?