We payed for buff oringtons but they look like white leghorns...

[pne123]

what do you think?

 

[btrent94]

THOSE ARE DEFINITELY NOT BUFF ORPINGTONS OR ANYTHING OTHER WITH THE BUFF COLOR

... THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT YOULL GET MORE EGGS NOW, AND THEY WILL BE WHITE !! ... lol this might not be exactly what you looking for but its what you got lol

 

[pne123]

Crap. we wanted BO cuz we wanted them "friendly" for the kids and we would also get eggs.
here is what they looked like at day olds along w/, hopefully, RIR

 

[pne123]

so do you think i am right that they are white leghorns or are they white rocks or something else?

 

[ArizonaNessa]

Could be white rocks but I think White leghorn is more likely but on a happier note I think that little red one is a rhode island red. As for the white ones, if the earlobes turn red then its a white rock but I think the leg color is wrong for a white rock. Don't quote me on that.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Leg color for White Plymouth Rocks and White Leghorns is the same. (Yellow). White Orpingtons on the other hand would have white legs.

 

[rebbetzin]

When my Orpingtons were chicks they were a deeper gold color, not yellow.

If you compare the photos of the chicks, you can see even at one day, the shape of the body is not that of a Buff Orpington. The back is sloped downward in the yellow day old chick, and when it is older, the tail is held downward in white chicken. The Buff Orpingtons have a level back with an upright tail even when very young.

 

[Chris09]

pne123:
sorry to say that not a Orpington..
White Orpingtons and Buff Orpingtons are to have shanks and toes that are pinkish white and the beak should be pinkish white to. It isnt a Leghorn eather it might be a Rock or Rock cross.
Chris..

 

[FisherMOM]

IF they are White Rocks, they are mellow chickens, unlike leghorns. But leghorns are much better egg layers.

 

[Danigirl3]

I have both white leghorns and rocks about the same age. Yours looks more like my rocks than my leghorns. Which to me they look a lot alike. I tell mine apart because my rocks are pretty beafy compared to the leghorns. I think the leghorns when they are older will stand taller (as in more errect) and will be lankier. My guess, I'm not expert.