Alex - it has been a while, so I hope you get this! I could REALLY use some help identifying my SS from my LBL. Both are about 4 days old from a hatchery. Chick One has Yellow Shanks but also has a bib. Chick 2 has white shanks, but no bib! First 3 pics are chick 1. The next 4 are chick 2. Last pic is side by side. The circled one is Chick 1.There's oftentimes a significant difference between Brown Leghorn/Welsummer (I lumped them together because these breeds truly are indistinguishable until later on) and Speckled Sussex chicks. Even within hatchery birds, actually. I've owned many Welsummers from various sources, as well as SS, and numerous Spangled/Black Breasted Red Old English Game bantams (same colors, same concept).....never had trouble telling them apart. Spangled birds usually sport a stark white or yellow bib (marking where their first white plumage will emerge), whereas wildtype patterns normally don't.
You should see the overstock bin at Meyer.....always full of at least 40 beautiful SS, all bibbed and gorgeous. Yet again, never struggled to determine the differentiating features between spangled and wildtype breeds thrown in when selecting peeps.
Here are just a few of my Spangled OEGBs:
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Welsummers from a couple years ago:
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Of course, there will always be exceptions. Just something I've noticed so far.
~Alex
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