What breed are these chicks?

[13LuckyChicks]

Is there any way to identify a Cream Legbar from an Easter Egger or a Prairie Blue Bell? Hoover sent a box of chicks to my feed store - they didn’t band or identify any of them. It was a box of EE, PBB, Sapphire Olive Eggers, and Legbars. I had specifically ordered a Legbar and was hoping I got one. But I’m afraid I will never know what these little mutts are! Especially if none of them develop a crest.

 

[BastyPutt]

The darker chipmunks are likely to be your legbars, if they are in there.

The rest vary a lot, but the dark gray has the potential to be a blue olive Egger, or the sapphire.

 

[13LuckyChicks]

The darker chipmunks are likely to be your legbars, if they are in there.

The rest vary a lot, but the dark gray has the potential to be a blue olive Egger, or the sapphire.

The dark chipmunks have yellow feet too. Maybe that bodes well for Legbars?

 

[BastyPutt]

The dark chipmunks have yellow feet too. Maybe that bodes well for Legbars?

Id put some bucks on it

Regardless, a nice little egg basket you are going to have there.

 

[13LuckyChicks]

So. These are the dark chipmunks and the lighter, yellow chipmunk at 5 weeks. The lighter seems to be a Sapphire Olive Egger (Hoovers hybrid is supposed to have a crest). The darker? I wish they were Legbars, but they look too orange! And no crest (but my adult legbar doesn’t have a crest either).

 

[Coop-de-doop]

Is there any way to identify a Cream Legbar from an Easter Egger or a Prairie Blue Bell? Hoover sent a box of chicks to my feed store - they didn’t band or identify any of them. It was a box of EE, PBB, Sapphire Olive Eggers, and Legbars. I had specifically ordered a Legbar and was hoping I got one. But I’m afraid I will never know what these little mutts are! Especially if none of them develop a crest.

The darker brown chipmunk striped ones look like legbar pullets, as long as they have straight combs!

 

[Coop-de-doop]

So. These are the dark chipmunks and the lighter, yellow chipmunk at 5 weeks. The lighter seems to be a Sapphire Olive Egger (Hoovers hybrid is supposed to have a crest). The darker? I wish they were Legbars, but they look too orange! And no crest (but my adult legbar doesn’t have a crest either).

The dark ones look like my starlight green egger did at that age! But one of them ended up laying a brown egg anyway lol

 

[13LuckyChicks]

The dark ones look like my starlight green egger did at that age! But one of them ended up laying a brown egg anyway lol

Of course. Have a Green Queen that lays a cream/beige egg. What did your pullets look like at this age? And now? Hoovers doesn’t have many pictures.

 

[13LuckyChicks]

The darker brown chipmunk striped ones look like legbar pullets, as long as they have straight combs!

They do have a straight comb and yellow legs. But they aren’t very gray on their breast.

 

[Coop-de-doop]

Of course. Have a Green Queen that lays a cream/beige egg. What did your pullets look like at this age? And now? Hoovers doesn’t have many pictures.

Here’s some pics. I thought for the longest time I had a rooster. Sure enough, she’s a hen! They say there’s a 5% chance they will lay a brown egg. I got mine from Hoover’s Hatchery.