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[Chickielady]

Worked all day yesterday in the green house, new compost, fertilizer, weed pulling, then planting the new veggie starts:

Yellow Paddy Pans (4)
Muncher Cucumbers (6) and outside I planted 4 Buttah Zuchinni, covered the row with plastic...then went indoors and moved birds from the baby brooder to the teen ager brooder that has the run outdoors....moved ducks, cleaned up their mess (

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Then went in the green house, potted a tray of 24 plugs & planted Lettuce in it...and a tray of 24 and planted Blue Lake green beans...today I am supposed to do another couple trays with Sweet Meats Squash...but I hurt all over !!!

Guess I did too much !

I am gonna stay inside with a fuzzy blanket & a good novel today !

 

[ochochicas]

Their combs are very tiny still and appear to be single. They could be the same breed. The store told me they were all different breeds, but I'm sure they could be wrong. I might have to wait until they are older to see what color eggs they lay. Hopefully they'll both be pullets. Here is another pic of the face.

 

[BGMatt]

Their combs are very tiny still and appear to be single. They could be the same breed. The store told me they were all different breeds, but I'm sure they could be wrong. I might have to wait until they are older to see what color eggs they lay. Hopefully they'll both be pullets. Here is another pic of the face.

Too stocky to be leghorns, especially hatchery leghorns. I'd agree with the above comment from Chickielady about them being the same breed. I would imagine they're White Plymouth Rocks, they can on occasion have the grey down color.

 

[ochochicas]

Thanks Matt! I'd be happy with two Plymouth Rocks. I just hope they are both pullets since I'm pretty sure the barred rock we got is a cockerel. I'd hate to have to put two in the freezer. Yesterday when I went to a different feed store they lady there told me the chicks with darker gray coloring are usually cockerels. Oh well, I'll just have to wait a few more weeks.

 

[Chickielady]

Thanks Matt! I'd be happy with two Plymouth Rocks. I just hope they are both pullets since I'm pretty sure the barred rock we got is a cockerel. I'd hate to have to put two in the freezer. Yesterday when I went to a different feed store they lady there told me the chicks with darker gray coloring are usually cockerels. Oh well, I'll just have to wait a few more weeks.

Cockerels of what breed ?
Doesn't anyone there have a list of what they ordered from the hatchery ?
Maybe you can ask someone in management ?

In my experience, not very many feed stores order white rocks, unless they were requested by a shopper and not picked up......but Matt is correct that they are too heavy to be Leghorns.
I am trying to guess what breeds a feed store normally orders......................?

As long as they for sure have a S/C, then I would agree with Matt that they are White Rocks, but watch how stocky they get compared to others their own age & see if they maybe are White Giants.
I doubt it, but maybe...I can see no other hatchery breed they could be.

 

[BGMatt]

Cockerels of what breed ?
Doesn't anyone there have a list of what they ordered from the hatchery ?
Maybe you can ask someone in management ?

In my experience, not very many feed stores order white rocks, unless they were requested by a shopper and not picked up......but Matt is correct that they are too heavy to be Leghorns.
I am trying to guess what breeds a feed store normally orders......................?

As long as they for sure have a S/C, then I would agree with Matt that they are White Rocks, but watch how stocky they get compared to others their own age & see if they maybe are White Giants.
I doubt it, but maybe...I can see no other hatchery breed they could be.

Wrong leg color for Giants. Thought they might be cornishx but they'd be bigger and less feathering at that age. Coule be some weird hybrid or sexlink too, I don't keep up on those. Rocks are pretty common though, and I know both the dark down and yellow down can be present. The darker down is what the old timers called "stay white" a silver based white that won't yellow as much in the sun or with corn.

 

[Chickielady]

Wrong leg color for Giants. Thought they might be cornishx but they'd be bigger and less feathering at that age. Coule be some weird hybrid or sexlink too, I don't keep up on those. Rocks are pretty common though, and I know both the dark down and yellow down can be present. The darker down is what the old timers called "stay white" a silver based white that won't yellow as much in the sun or with corn.

But some "white giants" from hatcheries are yellow shanked...the dark giants are dark shanked & yellow soled, the whites are all yellow.
Weird, huh ?

What is even stranger is they show dark chicks, which do not even look like black jersey giant chicks,
So, you think these little black chicks shed all their black down & fledge white ?

http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/white_giants.html

Weird.
I have my doubts.
and yes, not stocky & bald enough to be CornishX

 

[BGMatt]

But some "white giants" from hatcheries are yellow shanked...the dark giants are dark shanked & yellow soled, the whites are all yellow.
Weird, huh ?

What is even stranger is they show dark chicks, which do not even look like black jersey giant chicks, 
So, you think these little black chicks shed all their black down & fledge white ?

http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/white_giants.html

Weird.
I have my doubts.
and yes, not stocky & bald enough to be CornishX

Their chick picture is one black and one white. The Giants just like the Langshans in White are very dark gray as chicks.

The chick on the right in this picture is a great example, the chick on left is a splash.

 

[Chickielady]

You know Matt, There was a few folks a few years back working on crossing the giant with a Cornish...the idea was a slower growing but larger meat bird, one that could support it's weight & perphaps reproduce.

In my mind's eye I could picture the meat bird of the century, almost weight & girth of a Beltsville SW.
Imagine !
I have not heard a thing about how the breeding went.
I have even PM'd the guy, but he is not on BYC any longer.
IF you ever come across this subject, please let me know...it is intensely interesting.

I think TC was watching this story develope as well as I.

 

[Chickielady]

Their chick picture is one black and one white. The Giants just like the Langshans in White are very dark gray as chicks.



The chick on the right in this picture is a great example, the chick on left is a splash.

Their's are much darker and look for all the world to be auto sexing as well, like a double barred bird...like Silver Cuckoos are.
Not gray, but black & yellow and one sex much lighter...they must have silver in them, don't you think ?
Course none of this helps her figure out what breed she has, all in all they probably are White Rocks, by shear popularity of the breed (Rocks)
As Illia has said many times, Almost all breeds developed in the USA (today) are bred off the backs of the Plymouth Rock...