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    Cochins

    Those are beautiful Cochins. You should get all blue offspring from these parents, going by blue color genetics. Mottling is a recessive gene, so needs two copies to express itself. The chicks from this cross would have only one copy, so they would not be mottled themselves but crossed with a...
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    Young Buff Orpington (Little Over 9-11 weeks)

    So far it is looking to be a pullet. Watch the comb/wattles for growth spurts.
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    Lavender Marans variations in colors ?

    The father doesn't look pure lavender to me, since he has lemony hackle and saddle feathers. But it might just be the picture. If he does have that yellow tinge to those feather, he is not pure lavender and has some other color genetics going on in addition to the lavender gene. Also, though...
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    What are these?!

    Barring and cuckoo work off the same color genes. The difference is that barred birds have been bred to have even parallel barring with crisp bars of white on a black ground color. In cuckoo, the barring is less even and more muddled, and the bars are often more gray than white on a duller...
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    Are people without pets weird?

    A lot of people live in apartments and choose not to keep pets. That's not weird. It's thoughtful. And some people are allergic to animal dander. I think disliking all animals is weird, but not people who don't keep pets for whatever reason.
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    Another gender challenge.

    The chick does have some comb and wattle development, but I'm leaning pullet because of how even the blue coloring is on this bird. Around 12 weeks, it will get red shoulder feathers if it is male. So it may take a while longer to be sure.
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    Gender and breed help on "BR" please

    It depends on where the eggs came from. If from a hatchery, then maybe a mistake was made. If from a backyard breeder, then the black one is probably a mix of some kind. In the second photo, the chick on the right is male.
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    What breed is she?

    She's an Easter egger.
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    So I had purchased some chicks from Mc Murrays hatchery and they included a few free ones

    They were breeding Easter eggers and still are. The hatcheries didn't use the term Ameraucana until after that breed became standardized, and they played no part in that. Only birds sold by color variety by the hatcheries are likely to be purebred Ameraucanas. Price differences usually tell...
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    So I had purchased some chicks from Mc Murrays hatchery and they included a few free ones

    The orange bird in the background in the first picture is a cockerel, in case you didn't know. The other cockerel is in the fourth photo and has already been pointed out. The black pullets are all probably Whiting True Blues. The white one with single comb and no beard looks to be a Whiting...
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    Rooster Blues?

    Roosters sometimes alert hens to danger and a few might attack a predator, but mostly they are not effective for flock protection. The dominant hen tends to take over those responsibilities anyway when there is no rooster around.
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    What chicken breed?

    They are not great layers at the best of times. More of a pet or fancier breed with lots of personality.
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    Is my baby a rooster?

    It is too early to be sure, but my guess is that it is a boy, based on color pattern.
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    What chicken breed?

    She's a silver duckwing Old English game bantam. The white legs make that breed easy to spot.
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    Sexing chicks

    The dark faces of this variety cover red, so it is more difficult to tell the gender. You're looking at comb size alone. They do look small for 12 weeks old. Age is important when judging comb size. But for now, I think they all look to be pullets.
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