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In the Brooder
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We ordered a batch of 20 sexed chicks from Hoover Hatchery's rare breed assortment a few weeks ago as a fun little winter project since we had some extra brooder space, and there are 3 that we can't seem to ID for the life of us, as they don't appear to match any of the possible breeds that can be included in the assortment.
One of them has quite a large poof on her head and has white and black feathers, while the other two have smaller poofs and are a bit darker. We thought that the three of them were all the same breed when they were smaller, but we're starting to think that the one with the larger/white poof is not be the same as the other two as they have developed quite differently.
According to Hoover's Hatchery, the breeds that could have been included in the assortment are as follows:
Partridge Plymouth Rock
Midnight Majesty Marans®
Sapphire Olive Egger™
Speckled Sussex
Blue Andalusian
Silver Lakenvelder
Cuckoo Marans
French Black Copper Marans
French Cuckoo Marans
French Wheaten Marans
Welsummer
Barnevelder
Prairie Bluebell Egger®
Starlight Green Egger™
Olive Egger
Salmon Faverolles
Cochins, Turkens
Blue Laced Red Wyandotte
Columbian Wyandotte
Light Brahma
Buff Brahma
Dark Brahma
Lavender Orpington
We've gone through pictures of every single one of these breeds as chicks and could not find a single one that looked anything like these three, so we're stumped. Is it possible that they included a few chicks that weren't actually supposed to be in the assortment? We thought that the one with the white poof could be a White Crested Black Polish, but her little poof doesn't seem to be as large as a Polish would normally have at 3 weeks old.
We ordered a batch of 20 sexed chicks from Hoover Hatchery's rare breed assortment a few weeks ago as a fun little winter project since we had some extra brooder space, and there are 3 that we can't seem to ID for the life of us, as they don't appear to match any of the possible breeds that can be included in the assortment.
One of them has quite a large poof on her head and has white and black feathers, while the other two have smaller poofs and are a bit darker. We thought that the three of them were all the same breed when they were smaller, but we're starting to think that the one with the larger/white poof is not be the same as the other two as they have developed quite differently.
According to Hoover's Hatchery, the breeds that could have been included in the assortment are as follows:
Partridge Plymouth Rock
Midnight Majesty Marans®
Sapphire Olive Egger™
Speckled Sussex
Blue Andalusian
Silver Lakenvelder
Cuckoo Marans
French Black Copper Marans
French Cuckoo Marans
French Wheaten Marans
Welsummer
Barnevelder
Prairie Bluebell Egger®
Starlight Green Egger™
Olive Egger
Salmon Faverolles
Cochins, Turkens
Blue Laced Red Wyandotte
Columbian Wyandotte
Light Brahma
Buff Brahma
Dark Brahma
Lavender Orpington
We've gone through pictures of every single one of these breeds as chicks and could not find a single one that looked anything like these three, so we're stumped. Is it possible that they included a few chicks that weren't actually supposed to be in the assortment? We thought that the one with the white poof could be a White Crested Black Polish, but her little poof doesn't seem to be as large as a Polish would normally have at 3 weeks old.