What colour will this chick grow up to be?

[Keeperofmunchkins]

This is one of the Booted Bantam chicks I have just hatched from mixed colour ebay eggs. The seller showed the possible parent birds as black, black and white columbian, mottled black and white, blue buff, buff white, and porcelain. None of these fit this little chick.

A lot of Booted Bantams are millefleur with a kind of golden to dark reddish tone, but millefleur chicks I've seen don't have the stripes and eyeliner.

So what colour is this chick going to be? It's a mystery.
It's name is Hazelnut by the way.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

This is one of the Booted Bantam chicks I have just hatched from mixed colour ebay eggs. The seller showed the possible parent birds as black, black and white columbian, mottled black and white, blue buff, buff white, and porcelain. None of these fit this little chick.

A lot of Booted Bantams are millefleur with a kind of golden to dark reddish tone, but millefleur chicks I've seen don't have the stripes and eyeliner.

So what colour is this chick going to be? It's a mystery.
It's name is Hazelnut by the way. View attachment 1744381 View attachment 1744382
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Generally chicks that color end up partridge or speckled like sussex, so it may be a mottled buff cross. You will need to wait and see how it turns out.

 

[Mybackyardpeepers]

This is what mine looks like now.

 

[Ladybird CA]

I agree, probably partridge

 

[Mybackyardpeepers]

This is from off the internet, but what my chick that looked like yours is turning out to be. I posted a picture of her but you can't really see her pattern.

 

[Keeperofmunchkins]

Yes thanks everyone, I think it will be gold partridge.

Someone said to me that with this colour of chick, you can often tell if it's a boy or a girl based on the pattern of the stripe down the back and the 'eyeliner'. Strong clear dark line eyeliner plus a complete clear stripe from the head down the neck and back = female. Blurry eyeliner and a faded stripe that isn't complete down the back of the neck = male.
On this basis they said my chick looks male.

Is there any truth in this method of sexing and if so, how accurate is it?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Yes thanks everyone, I think it will be gold partridge.

Someone said to me that with this colour of chick, you can often tell if it's a boy or a girl based on the pattern of the stripe down the back and the 'eyeliner'. Strong clear dark line eyeliner plus a complete clear stripe from the head down the neck and back = female. Blurry eyeliner and a faded stripe that isn't complete down the back of the neck = male.
On this basis they said my chick looks male.

Is there any truth in this method of sexing and if so, how accurate is it?

This is used often to sex welsummer. I don't know if it applies to all partridge colored birds or not, especially mixes. Should be interesting to see if it does or not.

 

[Keeperofmunchkins]

Yes I'm hoping for a girl but I don't mind either way.