What breed is this chick?

[TheGoldenGoose]

So I ordered 5 chicks offline a couple weeks ago and got 6. I know the 5 I ordered, 3 australorps a silver laced wyandotte and a gold laced wyandotte. But I do not know what breed the extra chick is. Can someone help me identify her breed?
P.s. I use the wing feather technique for identifying if theyre male or female

 

[RustyBucketFarmGirl]

So I ordered 5 chicks offline a couple weeks ago and got 6. I know the 5 I ordered, 3 australorps a silver laced wyandotte and a gold laced wyandotte. But I do not know what breed the extra chick is. Can someone help me identify her breed?
P.s. I use the wing feather technique for identifying if theyre male or female

Hard to say at this point. I bought mine at Meyer Hatchery in Ohio and they have a chick inditifucation took on their website. It’s public and was fun to look up all my girls and figure out which was which since i have a man fed flcok of 10.

 

[chickendreams24]

Feather sexing only works if a bird is particularly bred for this trait.

At best it is only a guess on other breeds that weren't bred for it, I'm sorry to say. It would be nice if it were that easy to sex chicks but then hatcheries wouldn't need to pay people with lots of experience vent sexing and even they make occasional mistakes.

What hatchery did you use? Do you have pictures of the chick when it arrived?

I'm guessing speckled Sussex maybe. Many chicks look similar when very young and it is likely that it will not be identifiable for several weeks yet.

 

[chickendreams24]

Looking again I'm now second guessing that it's a speckled Sussex as I see no marking on the bavk of it's unfeathered head. Speckled Sussex chicks should have a chipmunk like stripe at hatch and before feathering.

 

[Alexandra33]

Looks much like a Production Red.

~Alex

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Production Red


Feather sexing only works for specifically bred hybrids. (sex links) so you will need to wait until around 6 weeks, then post pics of the comb.

 

[TheGoldenGoose]

Thanks so far everyone!

Not that type of feathering technique, where males look one way and females look another from their colors. The one where when they’re a day or so old you spread their wings out. The way the feathers are look different based on sex.

 

[chickendreams24]

Yes that is the type of sexing I was referring to and I believe the other poster also meant this type of sexing and just miss spoke. While sex links are generally color sexable the proper mating of 1 slow feathering breed crossed with a quick feathering breed(I forget which is which as far as male and female) does indeed produce a feather sexable sex linking.

This does not work unless the trait has been specifically bred for.

 

[chickendreams24]

Those birds in the video are also too old for feather sexing which is generally done in the correctly bred birds between day old and 3-4 days old.

While I understand your thinking it will work as many people that get into chicks can and do think it will it is not accurate. Even just a day in the difference of when the birds hatched will affect the feather growth of them. This may be useful as a helpful tool if you are familiar with a line you have been breeding for a while and know well but it is by no means fool proof.