What breed is this?

[cforrester]

This is our new and first little baby He/she is 2 days old. Any ideas what breed it may be?

 

[iwiw60]

I almost want to say black australorp, but at only 2 days old it's merely a guessing game at this point in time...best of luck with your new fuzzy-butt!!

 

[One Chick Two]

This is our new and first little baby

He/she is 2 days old. Any ideas what breed it may be?

Congratulations!!!

I am not sure if your little one is an Australorp- possibly... but IMO, he/she also somewhat resembles (at this time) a baby English Black Copper Marans. The French version has feathering shanks and feet, the English version, no feathering.

This baby was two days old, and it was a male. The males often show more white on the face than the females.

 

[Basskids08]

This is our new and first little baby He/she is 2 days old. Any ideas what breed it may be?

Congratulations!!! I am not sure if your little one is an Australorp- possibly... but IMO, he/she also somewhat resembles (at this time) a baby English Black Copper Marans. The French version has feathering shanks and feet, the English version, no feathering.[COLOR=005CB1] [/COLOR] This baby was two days old, and it was a male. The males often show more white on the face than the females.

The posters chick don't have feathers on legs, so it can't be a BCM! Like OP stated it is young and can change! But it does resemble an Australorp,!

 

[One Chick Two]

The posters chick don't have feathers on legs, so it can't be a BCM! Like OP stated it is young and can change! But it does resemble an Australorp,!

Not wanting to be argumentative, but I agree to disagree.

Actually, featherless shanks and feet can still be a BCM... just not a French Black Copper Marans. A featherless shank BCM would be a Black Copper Marans, in the English standard. English standard calls for clean legs. They are not as popularly known as most people breed for the French version of leg feathering. Here's a link that mentions them:

http://www.whitmorefarm.com/marans

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=English+Black+Copper+Marans&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Could be an Australorp though...

 

[Basskids08]

The posters chick don't have feathers on legs, so it can't be a BCM! Like OP stated it is young and can change! But it does resemble an Australorp,!

Not wanting to be argumentative, but I agree to disagree.

Actually, featherless shanks and feet can still be a BCM... just not a French Black Copper Marans. A featherless shank BCM would be a Black Copper Marans, in the English standard. English standard calls for clean legs. They are not as popularly known as most people breed for the French version of leg feathering. Here's a link that mentions them:

http://www.whitmorefarm.com/marans

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=English+Black+Copper+Marans&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Could be an Australorp though... 

I agree with you, but the chances poster got these from a breeder of French / English Marans is little and I only say that because they only have one and breeders and hatcheries alike usually sell more than one!

 

[One Chick Two]

I agree with you, but the chances poster got these from a breeder of French / English Marans is little and I only say that because they only have one and breeders and hatcheries alike usually sell more than one!

Sometimes a single English standard BCM chick, juvie or adult can show up in certain feed stores (...at least in our area, anyway...) when a breeder of the French version doesn't wish to keep a non-feathered chick that pops up (its often from breeding one parent with little or no feathering on shanks to a normal to well-feathered parent to control over and under feathering).

 

[Griffinsong]

Hmm, the comb throws me off, that is not a single comb.

Maybe it is a black Rosecomb Bantam?

 

[cforrester]

Thank you all! I know it's highly possible it could just be a mixture of breeds. We had gotten 4 eggs from a local person to incubate ourselves but this one the only one to survive to hatch. If it helps any, this chick hatched from a light brown egg. And the person we got the eggs from don't know what breed of chickens they have either.