Post Pics of Your Polish HERE. Chick vs Adult Colors!!!

[JordanFamily]

I'm starting a project of trying to get the chocolate and chocolate cookoo into the standard size Polish and would like anyone that has pics of the different colors of Polish as chicks, to post them here and tell what color they ended up being, so I know what color my chicks are going to be. I will start by adding a few of my own and you can tell me what color you think they might be. I have a buff laced hen, WC chocolate hen, white hen, WC blue hens, and WC black hen in with a WC chocolate frizzle Roo and a chocolate cookoo frizzle Roo. So those are the colors the chicks could be... What do you think... And please post your own photos of the colord you have. Thanks
This chick I think is going to be buff laced...... / Oh correction must be a white... because buff laced is a recessive gene.

Blue???

Maybe chocolate??? Looks more of a brown color on it's back then the blue chick...

 

[JordanFamily]

Anyone At All??? I know there are some Polish breeders out their with chick photos so please post them so we can learn what different colors look like as chicks... PLEASE!!!!

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

Here is a picture of Two of ours

The one on the right is a Silver laced polish that turns out like the third and fourth picture.

The one on the left turns out to be a Gold laced polish.

Basket of Polish the brown ones are Gold Laced and the Silver are Silver Laced.

Silver laced Pullet

Silver laced cockeral

 

[JordanFamily]

Thanks Doug.. BEAUTIFUL birds

Anyone else?

 

[Crunchie]

If the only two roosters you have are choc or choc cuckoo, you're not going to get a buff laced. The first chick could be white if it's from your buff laced hen or it could be a khaki from your choc hen. The second chick looks to be a black, but it is hard to see in the picture. What are his wing tips feathering out to be? Blue can range from very light to very dark, but * usually * it's going to look lighter than that when they are that young. It could also be cuckoo. Your third chick looks like it could be chocolate to me, too. But it could also be a choc cuckoo or a mix (you could get a chick that looked like that from a choc x blue).

I have a mess of chocolate & a choc cuckoo in the brooder now...I gotta head to the barn to body clip a horse right now, but I'll try to get a few pics up for you. May be tomorrow a.m., though. It's gonna be a long night out in the barn!

But, if you need pure chocolates and cuckoos/choc cuckoos for your project, you need to separate your choc & black hens out with your choc & choc cuckoo roosters. Take the buff laced, blue, & white out of your pen. Otherwise you're just going to end up with a lot of mixes. Take your third chick, for example. It could be a chocolate (from your chocolate hen or black hen), or it could look chocolate and actually have come from your blue hen. You don't really want to introduce the blue into your project, if what you're after is chocolates & cuckoos. The possibilities I posted above are only a fraction of what you might get. You are mostly going to get mixes from those birds you have in your pen now. Put the choc & choc cuckoo roosters over choc and black hens and you will get black, choc, khaki, cuckoo, chocolate cuckoo, and khaki cuckoo, but all colors will be pure.

Ok, it's 46 degrees outside. Changed my mind on clipping the horse.

Here's a couple of pictures:

Black on the left, chocolate on the right. About 4 days old.

Chocolate cuckoo, about a week and a half old.

The choc cuckoo will look like a chocolate at first, then after about 5 -7 days you'll start seeing the barring as the wing feathers come in. Same if it's a regular/black cuckoo. It will look black, then the barring will start coming in with the first feathers.

 

[JordanFamily]

Thanks Crunchie... I guess I have two whites then and I think the rest are blue or mixed and maybe cuckoo... Here are some more pics I took today of all 6 of my chicks I have right now. They are 6 days old. What do you think on colors now? And do any look like frizzles to you?
chick 1 White I guess???

chick 2

chick 3 Another White I guess???

chick 4

chick 5

chick 6

 

[Chicken0Boy]

I am thinking about breeding Polish also. Do they do well free-ranging & can the rooster protect the flock well?

 

[JordanFamily]

Quote:
They can't see that well because of the feathers on their head so are easily killed by preditors so you have to keep and eye on them and give them plenty of cover such as bushes if hawks live around you. The roos are just as blind if not even more so since they have more feathers on their heads. They are however fun to watch and pretty calm tempered.

 

[crysmom]

I'm getting a bunch of white crested polish hatching eggs (some are frizzle) so I'm subscribing to the thread so I can look at your chick pictures

 

[wolftracks]

This thread is exactly what I needed to find.
I have only ever owned WCB as far as Polish go and now I have a Buff Laced roo. I don't know the color genetics that I'd like to on poultry. I really want to learn it though. Books are good, but when you can get a question answered for you that helps so much.
I've been looking for hens or pullets for my roo and I was wondering if there are other colors I can work with. I don't have my black hens any longer, but would it be a color to work with? I have only been looking for buffs.
Please keep it coming in here, cause I really want to try to get this down.