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Sorry I can't answer your question Aspen, I've even got difficulty identifying a light back chick :blush: Hope some one will be able to answer your question.

 

Emmy

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Thanks!  I haven't thought to check that one.  Some people say lightbacks have horn colored beaks, but it sure looks black like a normal chick in those pictures.  I wonder if it really is?  I have one I am wondering about being lightback but it had a normal black beak.  Sure is a different color than it's grey siblings though, and not fawn.

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Thanks for the info.  Glad to hear from someone who has had them.

 

I'm really thinking this is a lightback female chick.  She is different than her brothers - lighter (silver looking) on top and quite white underneath - where she is clean.  The nest is very messy and the chicks are the dirtiest I have seen yet, so it may be a while before I get pictures up.

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Thanks for the info.  Glad to hear from someone who has had them.

 

I'm really thinking this is a lightback female chick.  She is different than her brothers - lighter (silver looking) on top and quite white underneath - where she is clean.  The nest is very messy and the chicks are the dirtiest I have seen yet, so it may be a while before I get pictures up.

Lightbacks look very different- IMO. But can sometimes be confused with Silvers (Dominant Dilutes). Some people think they look like fawns- I dont agree at all.

 

They should have a darker head, almost fawn back and white belly with black markings. Lightback, Fawn and Cream

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Same group slightly older:

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Here is a lightback female:

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I have had people look at my pictures and say fawn but when I knew it was a grey in real life, so there is a similarity.  But this girl (she has to be a girl if she is LB in this case) looks different than her brothers for sure, but is also grey.

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