What chicken breed is this?

[dialuann]

Hi,
Does anyone know what breed these chicks are? I am quite certain that the eggs that they hatched from were brown. The chicken breeds we have are:
Rhode Island Red
Sid Taylor
Brahma
Golden Comet
Wyandotte
(The mom that hatched them is the hen beside them in some photographs—a Rhode Island Red!)

 

[The Moonshiner]

What's a sid taylor?

 

[kattabelly]

What's a sid taylor?

They're a strain of black game fowl, apparently (I had to look it up)

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

Are those the only birds that could be the parents?
Was there a previous rooster, or other chickens that interacted with yours within a few weeks of the eggs being layed?

To my current knowledge, one of the parents would have to carry dominant white for the chicks to be paints.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Are those the only birds that could be the parents?
Was there a previous rooster, or other chickens that interacted with yours within a few weeks of the eggs being layed?

To my current knowledge, one of the parents would have to carry dominant white for the chicks to be paints.

Golden Comets have dominant white

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

Golden Comets have dominant white

Do they?
I did a quick lookup before commenting, and one hatchery says they use Rhode Island White, and other websites kept saying RIW are recessive white

Apologies for the bad info

 

[The Moonshiner]

Do they?
I did a quick lookup before commenting, and one hatchery says they use Rhode Island White, and other websites kept saying RIW are recessive white

Apologies for the bad info

You can't hardy believe what some hatcheries say about their birds genetics or exactly what birds are used in some hybrids.
Seems you have some knowledge about genetics. Look at female gold comets. They have RIR sort of pattern but with white instead of what should be black. Like paints they got a dominate white gene from one parent. We know 2 different kinds of birds need to be used to make them red sex links. Gotta figure both sides aren't recessive white so one side has dominant white.
I do believe real RI Whites are recessive but that wouldn't add up for one RI White parent to produce every comet female to have white in tails and wings etc.
Hope that makes sense for you.

 

[dialuann]

What's a sid taylor?

Yes—they are a type of gamefowl! Above is a picture of a rooster.

 

[JedJackson]

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Yes—they are a type of gamefowl! Above is a picture of a rooster.

Beautiful. If you have a rooster like that, crossing him with a Golden Comet would give chicks just like in your pictures. Not that they couldn't be something else. Depends on what other rooster breeds you have.

 

[JedJackson]

You can't hardy believe what some hatcheries say about their birds genetics or exactly what birds are used in some hybrids.
Seems you have some knowledge about genetics. Look at female gold comets. They have RIR sort of pattern but with white instead of what should be black. Like paints they got a dominate white gene from one parent. We know 2 different kinds of birds need to be used to make them red sex links. Gotta figure both sides aren't recessive white so one side has dominant white.
I do believe real RI Whites are recessive but that wouldn't add up for one RI White parent to produce every comet female to have white in tails and wings etc.
Hope that makes sense for you.

No, the hatcheries are not using purebred Rhode Island whites to make sex links. I don't know why they say that when it's obviously not true.