Identify chicks' breed, color and sex

[FoxySonia]

Hi,
I got 53 bantam chicks (and 1 standard, a Salmon Farerolle pullet) from Ideal Poultry, some to keep (pullets) and the rest to sell. They hatched on April 28 and I received them on April 30. Three chicks died within the first 72 hours (2 Sultan, 1 black Silkie, 2 blue quail d'Anver?, 1 barred Old English Game bantam, and 1 mystery chick?, that wrongly identified as 1 white Silkies, 1 black Silkie, 1 blue Silkie, 1 Easter Egger bantam, 1 golden neck d'Uccle and 1 mille fleur d'Uccle, which is what is being sent as replacement). Here's link to album where you can see the photos of the 6 chicks that died, so they can be correctly identified: https://photos.app.goo.gl/GGi4L34ZgCF1Z5x58
One of the white Silkies came with a fungal eye infection that spread to surrounding skin, and to a couple of other chicks, including another Silkie. After 4 days of spraying twuce a day with an antifungal spray it's already getting better, and the bare skin is getting covered by feathers. The rest of the chicks are doing well, seem healthy, energetic, and at just 4 weeks they have most of their feathers and spend a lot of time away from the brooder plate and heat lamp.

Anyway, I've been able to identify most of the chicks breed, and few as cockerels because of more prominent comb, and a few as pullets because of smaller/flatter comb. The Silkies I can't guess their sex, the previous 3 Silkies I own that were sold to me as 6 week old pullets, turned out to be cockerels that started crowing at 4 1/2 months old. Going through the list of chick breeds I got, there are just 2 breeds I'm not sure I'm identifying correctly: blue quail d'Anver and blue mille fleur Old English Game bantam. I can't find any photos of 4 week+ old blue mille OEGB. I also have golden neck OEGB, and buff Sebright, and their feathers colors look almost identical.

Here's list of chick breeds I have:
1 white Sultan bantam (after 2 died / a pullet?)
3 mottled Cochin bantam (I think 3 cockerels, or 2 cockerels and 1 pullet?)
3 white frizzled Cochin bantam (3 cockerels?)
1 black Silkie (after 1 died / cockerel)
2 blue Silkie (1 cockerel and 1 pullet?)
3 white Silkie (1 came with fungal eye and skin infection / 2 cockerels and 1 pullet or 1 cockerel and 2 pullet?)
2 Easter Egger bantam (skitish ones / 2 pullets?)
3 white crested black Polish bantam (shy ones / 1 cockerel and 2 pullets?)
3 blue laced red Wyandotte bantam (3 cockerels / 1 tiny and 2 much bigger)
2 blue quail d'Anver (after 2 died?, 2 pullets?)
2 golden laced Sebright (2 pullets?)
4 buff Sebright (2 cockerels and 2 pullets?)
4 golden neck Old English Game bantam (shy little guys, cockerel, pullet?)
4 blue mille fleur Old English Game bantam (very curious and sweet, cockerels, pullet?)
3 golden neck d'Uccles (2 cockerels and 1 pullet?)
3 mille fleur d'Uccles (3 cockerels or 3 pullets?)
3 barred Old English Game bantam (after 1 died / curious but skirish / 2 cockerels and 1 pullet?)

Please check out the photos and give me your guess as to what sex you think they are, and which ones you think are the blue quail d'Anver and blue mille fleur OEGB. Thanks

White Sultan Bantam (pullet?)

Mottled Cochin Bantam (2 cockerels, 1 pullet?)
- Chick 1 (cockerel or pullet?)

- Chick 2 (pullet?)

- Chick 3 (cockerel)

White Frizzled Cochin Bantam (3 cockerels)
- Chick 1 (cockerel?)

- Chick 2 (definitely a cockerel)

- Chick 3 (cockerel or pullet?)

Silkies
- Black Chick (cockerel)

- Blue Chick 1 (cockerel?)

- Blue Chick 2 (cockerel or pullet?)

- White Chick 1 (cockerel or pullet?)

- White Chick 2 (pullet?)

- White Chick 3 (cockerel or pullet?)

Easter Egger Bantam
- Chick 1 (pullet?)

- Chick 2 (pullet)

White Crested Black Polish
- Chick 1 (pullet?)

- Chick 2 (cockerel?)

- Chick 3 (pullet?)

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Bantam
- Chick 1 (cockerel)

Blue Quail Belgian D'Anver
- Chick 1 (pullet?)

- Chick 2 (pullet?)

To Be Conitinued

(Will add more photos soon, of the rest of the chicks.)

 

[sassychickens76]

This is interesting. Would you like to be tagged in my progression thread for my chicks?

 

[Chicalina]

That's a lot of chicks!!

With the silkies you are right it is just not possible to sex them this young. Comb is not indicative this early on in silkies.

 

[Painted Calls]

Looks like you've got breeds correct. It's a few weeks too early for sexing. A couple already look like they may turn out to be cockerels, but I in no way feel confident saying that's true at this age. A lot of these birds are also breeds that take longer than most to sex. Wait 4 weeks and post updated photos. The Cochins should be evident by 6 weeks.

 

[Amer]

The chicks are way too young to determine gender. Looks like you identified all the breeds correctly except the d’Anvers. I’m afraid I don’t know what that is (blue laced red Wyandotte?) Blue quails are bearded, mostly grey, with yellow around the face like this

 

[Amer]

Good job on that undertaking, determining the breed of those chicks is a challenge.

 

[Amer]

It looks like one of your dead ones had been a blue quail d’Anvers however.

 

[FoxySonia]

Have tried to edit my post to add the rest of the photos, and add new photos of the chicks at 8 weeks old, but haven't been able to do so using web browser or the BackyardChickens App as I can't find the option to edit. So I will post them on a comment, but it's too late to do it tonight.

 

[Amer]

Have tried to edit my post to add the rest of the photos, and add new photos of the chicks at 8 weeks old, but haven't been able to do so using web browser or the BackyardChickens App as I can't find the option to edit. So I will post them on a comment, but it's too late to do it tonight.

Unless you have a Premium Feather Membership, you can't edit a post after 24 hours.

 

[Ladybird CA]

Did you order specific breeds or an assortment? Either way looks like you have a nice variety