Any ideas on these 5 week old chicks??!!

Porterranch

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Apr 23, 2012
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Okay,, so these are my 5 week old "girls" I got them from a kindergarten class, and they all came from brown eggs! The 2 white ones are starting to get black dots, The black ones have black spots on the beaks. The grey one has a grey dot on the beak. the tan one in the middle is tho only one with I think its called a pea comb. Thanks for any and all help!
 
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Okay, I have searched breeds, and am guessing,
2 Delaware, 2 barred rock, 1 cuckoo bantam, 1 buff Orpington, 2 red type ( can't figure out which). Does anyone agree with that? And do any look like boys?
 
I don't see delaware or a bantam. If they hatched these eggs themselves, the chances they are all girls are not very good. Just FYI.

Two barred rocks, an orpington, two production reds (mixed red production breeds), possibly white rocks. No idea what the funky grey chick is - does it have feathered legs? Could be a dark bramha. Lucky!

Better individual pictures of all the chicks would help a lot.
 
I am sure they are not all girls! But one can hope for majority. The grey one has grey legs as well, no feathers on the legs. On one website the only one that was grey with grey legs was a cuckoo bantum. I will post better individual pics.
 



Okay, here are individual pictures, the chicks are not too keen on being held, I guess I need to work on that more!! So I did the best i could, one of the black ones and one of the red ones not shown! I wish I could download the pics from my ipad!! it would be much easier!
okay so also not in order, I had a hard time just getting these darn things up here!!
pic #1 hot cocoa
pic #2 lilly
pic #3 all of them (sorry, dont know how to delete just one photo
pic #4 peaches
pic #5 hot cocoa
pic #6 snowy
pic #7 lilly
pic #8 and #9 spotty ( sorry for the duplication)
pic #10 and 11 penny
I would love any help, thanks!! (penny is the one with the pea comb)
 
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Penny - boy
Snowy - boy
Peaches - boy
Lilly - girl
Hot cocoa seems to be a girl too...

I'm going to guess that your barred birds are mixed breed. Hot cocoa looks a lot like a picture I saw of a BR/buff orp cross, except of course if it was a BO cross there would be buff coloring. But I'm guessing that's a mix with whatever the white birds' parent is. Will be a really pretty bird (already is!).
 
Perhaps the grey and black ones are silver cuckoo marans? The two black ones hens, and the grey one rooster?
 
I'm thinking they're all mixed breeds.

Here are my guesses:

pic #1 hot cocoa Boy
pic #2 lilly Boy
pic #3 all of them (sorry, dont know how to delete just one photo
pic #4 peaches Boy
pic #5 hot cocoa Boy
pic #6 snowy Girl
pic #7 lilly Boy
pic #8 and #9 spotty ( sorry for the duplication) Girl ?
pic #10 and 11 penny Boy
I would love any help, thanks!! (penny is the one with the pea comb)

Sorry, I'm thinking lots of boys there.
 

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