Help working out breed please?
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Awww! So good! No idea but that's made my day though!
valeriebutterley
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Sorry, no idea, lovely chick though.
valeriebutterley
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Could throw a very wild guess and say bantam buff Sussex.
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I have no idea either, although my first thought is that it looks a bit big for a Dutch, unless thats a bantam Ancona? Its got yellow legs, so not a Sussex, at least not a pure one. I have raised buff crosses before, crossed with white birds, and the resulting plumage is that lovely dark buff, which I have heard described as cinnamon!
I have been posting on another forum and the suggestion that everyone seems to stick with is New Hampshire Red... It is part of the list of hatching eggs that I could get from the place I got them from (Hens for Pets in Nottinghamshire). I know it is definitely a pure breed of a type of Bantam, just not sure which lol Although New Hampshire actually does make sense to be fair now, providing Peckford will be getting darker... The only thing that does not work for NHR is the fact that they are not suppose to be good flyers, and Peckford definitely is a good flyer already,... Probably got good tips of the 3 Anconas hatched in the same week.
I do know it's not an Ancona because 1) not the same colour as the other three chicks and different tail too 2) the egg was different colour too.
Thanks all
I do know it's not an Ancona because 1) not the same colour as the other three chicks and different tail too 2) the egg was different colour too.
Thanks all
Have you sent pics to Hens for Pets to see what they say?
If they don't keep their breeds separate, but allow them to crossbreed, she could be anything really. Lovely new hybrid breed!
If they don't keep their breeds separate, but allow them to crossbreed, she could be anything really. Lovely new hybrid breed!
Yes I have, and she's come back to me straight away about the Anconas (without me asking about breed actually )when I sent her pictures of the chicks about 1 week old to show her. We were pretty excited about the new experience so I wanted to say thank you more than anything else. She couldn't see enough of Peckford to say about him.
So I sent her some better pictures of Peckford later on when there were more feathers, but no reply. I have asked again in case she'd not seen my message, no still nothing. I am not sure how she keeps them to be fair... But on the website, there's no mention of crossbreeds for the hatching eggs they sell.
The lack of replies is why I am now asking the question on here and in the Backyard chicken forum.
In a way I am glad I am doing this anyway because I have already learnt so much more thanks to all you lovely members of this great forum and the BYC forum
So whatever Peckford ends up being, I'll deffo be better informed about our goods friends chickens (and quails)
So I sent her some better pictures of Peckford later on when there were more feathers, but no reply. I have asked again in case she'd not seen my message, no still nothing. I am not sure how she keeps them to be fair... But on the website, there's no mention of crossbreeds for the hatching eggs they sell.
The lack of replies is why I am now asking the question on here and in the Backyard chicken forum.
In a way I am glad I am doing this anyway because I have already learnt so much more thanks to all you lovely members of this great forum and the BYC forum
So whatever Peckford ends up being, I'll deffo be better informed about our goods friends chickens
(and quails)
Ahh! Nearly a teenager!
ah ah Well after 2 weeks away on holiday, I have come back to completely different chickens,.. I thought that I wouldn't find them that much changed because my daughter had sent plenty of photos and videos,... but wow how wrong could I be???
Peckford used to be the smallest one and now he/she's the biggest one out of 4 chicks (what's the teenage term for a chick??? ;-) )
Well after 2 weeks away on holiday, I have come back to completely different chickens,.. I thought that I wouldn't find them that much changed because my daughter had sent plenty of photos and videos,... but wow how wrong could I be??? Peckford used to be the smallest one and now he/she's the biggest one out of 4 chicks (what's the teenage term for a chick??? ;-) )
Tweetypie
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I love the colouring of this chick, so pretty. PS Is it now a chicklet 10
PS Is it now a chicklet 10
Chicks become growers at about 7-8 weeks, and should be fed growers feed from then. Gradually increase the proportion of growers feed rather than swapping it over straight away.
Hen-Gen
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With you there, Marigold. I remember it as crumbs to growers at 8 weeks and growers to layers at 18 weeks.
By the way, one of my 19 week old Cream Legbars has started laying. Youngest I've ever known. I would prefer it if she concentrated on bodying up and producing a good, strong bone structure.
So September 1st it will be two Cream Legbars to one neighbour, two Barnevelders to another and two Araucanas and four Dominiques for me. Glad to be getting back to normal to be honest. Bring on November when I can get those blaating lambs into my freezer .............!
By the way, one of my 19 week old Cream Legbars has started laying. Youngest I've ever known. I would prefer it if she concentrated on bodying up and producing a good, strong bone structure.
So September 1st it will be two Cream Legbars to one neighbour, two Barnevelders to another and two Araucanas and four Dominiques for me. Glad to be getting back to normal to be honest. Bring on November when I can get those blaating lambs into my freezer .............!
The 4 little chicks born in the week commencing the 9th July have grown so fast! The three anconas are called Tilly, Tom and Tiny - Tom being a rooster And the red one is Peckford (we thought it was going to be a boy at first but we were wrong,... So it's actually Miss Peckford 
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Miss Peckford actually has some blue feathers on her tail now,... which you can't really see on the photo. Still not sure what breed it is, but it doesn't really matter... She's a great little chick all the same
And the red one is Peckford (we thought it was going to be a boy at first but we were wrong,... So it's actually Miss Peckford 10 Miss Peckford actually has some blue feathers on her tail now,... which you can't really see on the photo. Still not sure what breed it is, but it doesn't really matter... She's a great little chick all the same
