Even though we already know what ’s inside the sturdy shipping box , opening the lid and revealing the tiny tweedle lives inside is more exciting than open any gift . After determining that thechickshave get safely , inspecting for pasty butt , and introducing them to estrus , water and provender , the question we require ( as the immediacy wanes ) is , “ OK , which one ’s which ? ”
I ’m not sure why we ’re so intent on identifying which dame belongs to which breed . Maybe it ’s the human want to classifyall the things ! A lecturer has asked , “ late , I purchased three Black Sex Link doll and a Black Australorp chick . Is there any way of life of tell apart them apart ? ”
Know Your Chicken Breeds
If your chick decree includes a handful of differentbreeds , learn as much about each of their physical characteristics as possible . Are the chicks known to be brusque and circular , or tall and thin ? Is one breed a different color than its paired sexuality ? Does a strain have patterns or color variation in its fuzz ?
Compare Them To Photos
Thousands of chick and chicken photos are available online for compare . However , a photograph of anAustralorpyou find online might look a mass dissimilar than your Australorp . Why ? If yours and the net - famed came from different hatcheries , their genetic composition are course more divers , leave to more variety in physical characteristics . Your respectable stakes is to compare your wench or chickens to photos from the hatchery where you purchased your new wad .
When I ordered my most late batch of chicks , I resize photos from My Pet Chicken ( where my flock originated ) , and then I pasted chick photo next to the biddy pic for each breed on a blank written document , printed them out and put them on my electric refrigerator . This made for simple comparison the day my chicks arrived .
Order Breeds With Big Differences
With dozens of chicken breeds to pick out from , in many different colors to boot , ordering a various flock is easy to do . If they ’re diverse enough , you ’ll know which is which the moment you pry open up the shipping box .
Sometimes You’ll Never Know
If your chicken came from a feed store , the people working might not have intercourse for sure what they ’re sell . And , they can also be very unseasonable . One of my friends pick up five female Red Stars ( a sexual urge link ) at a feed store — or so she was told . Sex data link are hybrids of two fuse breeds that grow females of one color and males of another color . Having had a Red Star myself , I guessed that she actually had Rhode Island Reds establish on their deeper feather color . As time passed , it was open she did n’t have sex links because three of them were roosters .
To answer the referee ’s question , a Black Sex Link female chick is completely black , but an Australorp female chick is black on the top with a buff colour on her neck opening , chest and bottom . The Australorp will feather out with mordant iridescent feathers , and the Black Sex Link will be sinister but with brown neck opening / hackle feathers . The departure between them should be obvious from the start . If not , the referee plausibly does n’t have the breeds he think . However , as long as they grow into the healthy egg layers he bear , their actual heritage is n’t really that of import .
