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Poultry and Pets => Chicken Chat => Topic started by: LittleRedHen on August 03, 2013, 16:38

Title: What Kind of Chick is This, Please?
Post by: LittleRedHen on August 03, 2013, 16:38

Our hen is hatching out fertile eggs today and one chick is buff with a wide dark brown stripe on its head and travelling down its back.  Does anyone know what kind of chick this is?  We also have a black chick and a yellow chick.  So excited!  Two more eggs to go!

Title: Re: What Kind of Chick is This, Please?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on August 03, 2013, 23:33

Is it a pure breed or hybrid?

1.  Welsummer?
2.  Babcock Browns (hybrids)

Title: Re: What Kind of Chick is This, Please?
Post by: LittleRedHen on August 04, 2013, 08:58

Thank you for replying!  It looks just like the chicks in your pictures.  It is not a pure bred - father is a Cochin. He is running with Leg Horns, Orpingtons, Speckledys and Warrens (I think).  All five have hatched out now and they all look different!  He must have been a busy boy!

Title: Re: What Kind of Chick is This, Please?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on August 04, 2013, 09:03

In that case, you could have invented a new breed!  :lol: 

It could be from any of those hens, but warrens are the most closely related to the babcock browns which is my 2nd picture. 

It will be interesting to see how they all turn out!  Hope they are not all cockerals!