What do we think I have? Hoover Hatchery Dual Purpose Assortment

[Shipgirl]

I purchased the dual purpose assortment from Hoover hatchery, 10 pullets and 5 unsexed. I’m guessing I have Barred rocks or cuckoo marans, maybe buff Orpington or rainbows.

What do you guys think? Guesses on breeds? Included pics from when I first received them at 3 days old and they are 10 days old now.

 

[triciayoung]

I purchased the dual purpose assortment from Hoover hatchery, 10 pullets and 5 unsexed. I’m guessing I have Barred rocks or cuckoo marans, maybe buff Orpington or rainbows.

What do you guys think? Guesses on breeds? Included pics from when I first received them at 3 days old and they are 10 days old now.

 

[triciayoung]

Welcome. One of them looks like my Delaware did when she was a chick.

 

[Shipgirl]

Welcome. One of them looks like my Delaware did when she was a chick.

Delaware is one of the possible breeds I could have received.

 

[triciayoung]

Delaware is one of the possible breeds I could have received.

You definitely have some barred rocks but a few look like my Australorps did when they were chicks. This is fun. I went back and looked at my chickens as chicks. Thank you

 

[Shipgirl]

You definitely have some barred rocks but a few look like my Australorps did when they were chicks. This is fun. I went back and looked at my chickens as chicks. Thank you

Fingers crossed. There are 2 black ones that look like they could be Australorps or jersey giants maybe (fingers crossed for Australorps, but there’s not much white on them so don’t want to get my hopes up) , 6 I think could be barred rocks or marans, 4 that are the yellowish with the darker stripes down the back, and 3 that are lighter yellow.

 

[NatJ]

I purchased the dual purpose assortment from Hoover hatchery, 10 pullets and 5 unsexed. I’m guessing I have Barred rocks or cuckoo marans, maybe buff Orpington or rainbows.

What do you guys think? Guesses on breeds? Included pics from when I first received them at 3 days old and they are 10 days old now.

Barred Rocks or Cuckoo Marans: probably yes (black chicks with yellow dots on top of their heads). But if they turn out to be males, then they might also be Black Sexlinks (males have the yellow dot and white barring, females do not.)

To tell the Barred ones apart, try checking the color on the bottoms of their feet. Marans should have white soles, Rocks (or Black Sexlinks) should have yellow soles.

The ones that have stripes of yellow and buff on their backs, and are growing white feathers, are probably some kind of Red Sexlink (usually sold as ISA Brown, Golden Comet, Golden Buff, Red Star, and similar names.) If they are Red Sexlinks, then they are pullets, (because sexlinks are color-sexable).

 

[Shipgirl]

Barred Rocks or Cuckoo Marans: probably yes (black chicks with yellow dots on top of their heads). But if they turn out to be males, then they might also be Black Sexlinks (males have the yellow dot and white barring, females do not.)

To tell the Barred ones apart, try checking the color on the bottoms of their feet. Marans should have white soles, Rocks (or Black Sexlinks) should have yellow soles.

The ones that have stripes of yellow and buff on their backs, and are growing white feathers, are probably some kind of Red Sexlink (usually sold as ISA Brown, Golden Comet, Golden Buff, Red Star, and similar names.) If they are Red Sexlinks, then they are pullets, (because sexlinks are color-sexable).

The breeds are any that are listed in the catalog as dual purpose. I was thinking red sexlinks, but they aren’t listed which is why I was thinking maybe their rainbows- since they can look all different.

https://www.hoovershatchery.com/catalog.html

 

[Shipgirl]

Barred Rocks or Cuckoo Marans: probably yes (black chicks with yellow dots on top of their heads). But if they turn out to be males, then they might also be Black Sexlinks (males have the yellow dot and white barring, females do not.)

To tell the Barred ones apart, try checking the color on the bottoms of their feet. Marans should have white soles, Rocks (or Black Sexlinks) should have yellow soles.

The ones that have stripes of yellow and buff on their backs, and are growing white feathers, are probably some kind of Red Sexlink (usually sold as ISA Brown, Golden Comet, Golden Buff, Red Star, and similar names.) If they are Red Sexlinks, then they are pullets, (because sexlinks are color-sexable).

 

[NatJ]

The breeds are any that are listed in the catalog as dual purpose. I was thinking red sexlinks, but they aren’t listed which is why I was thinking maybe their rainbows- since they can look all different.

https://www.hoovershatchery.com/catalog.html

Given that, yes I agree Rainbow is more likely than the other options. I suppose you will be able to tell better as they grow.

On Hoovers website, if I look at "dual purpose" chicks, I find the Black Sexlinks and Cinnamon Queens but not the other sexlinks. Cinnamon Queen would be one of the few red sexlinks that don't grow white wing feathers.

So I don't know how flexible they are when deciding what breeds to put in an assortment like yours.

For the photos of chick feet: those look yellow to me, so not Marans. It looks like one of them has a lot more white in the feathers than some of the others. That one is probably a Barred Rock male. Purebred Barred Rocks have more white in males, less white in females. The ones with less white in their feathers could be Barred Rock females, or Black Sexlink males.