Help needed please!!

[JackieAt]

Please can someone help me identify what the 3 chicks are we have hatched courtesy of our broody Orp.
3 eggs from the same hen/cockerel apparently, we think Sid and Salt are brother and sister but Pepper is a one off!!!

Any clues as we have no idea. Not bantums, they are now 9 weeks old. came from normal size eggs

[Hilary B]

ooooer!!

Dunno about Sid and Salt, but Pepper looks a lot like a male Cuckoo Maran would at that age.

[Bramble-Poultry]

NOT from teh same hen and cock - pepper is a maran - gonna be a beauty

the others are a cross of some sort - not sure what though - legbar perhaps ....

[Apple Betty]

I agree with B-P, Pepper is definitely a maran, the long tailed one looks like Legbar and the other with black bits showing looks a bit Light Sussexy.

[JackieAt]

So we basically have 3 different birds then
I have looked at Marans and thought pepper looked similar...lets hope 'it' doesn't get too big or there will have to be some extensions made for the hen house. We already have an orpington, amber star and black rock...

[di]

I'd also say the middle one in the first pic looks to have a bit of Legbar going on....the punk hairstyle is very similar to ours,also the stained look on it's back.(I dropped some spaghetti hoops on one of our boys back when he was little...thought it was taking forever to go away,until I realised the other one was getting similar markings)

[JackieAt]

hence the name 'Sid' as in Sid Viscious from the Sex Pistols way back when!!!

[Bramble-Poultry]

ahhh - very good - like it

[Bephlam]

Oooo...I'd guess Maran too...and perhaps the others have some legbar about them?

They are cute though...!!