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

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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?

No problem at all. I first noticed this in my polish crosses. Almost all of my EEs had yellow legs at a day old, and by 3 weeks have finally started to change to either green, pink or slate.

None kept the yellow.