Please help identify

[Sherrirod]

I might be asking the impossible. We got 22 eggs to incubate from a farmer friend. 15 hatched on June 19th at the time of this posting. He has many different kinds of chickens and says he doesn't know what most of them are. I did see several Barred Rock, Marans and Jersey Giant hens (because I had those I could recognize them), along with many I couldn't identify. His rooster is straight up beautiful!! He said it was a mix of a number of things and he had no idea what it resembled. (I think there may have been more than one rooster running around.) I know they are all mixes, but I would like to identify what their mother may have been in order to determine eggs, hardiness and typical personality. Unless they are early layers, I will probably have to decide which to cull before I get to see the eggs. Keeping them all into winter isn't an option. There was nothing unusual or identifiable from the eggs, except that two of them were very thick. They were hard to candle.

I've identified several of my 15 hatching chicks as black sex link due to the BR hens and a non-barred roo. There are 2 barred males and what looks like 7 black iridescent females with red/gold coming through at the neck. The problem is that one of them has a much larger comb that the others leading me to assume it is mis-identified. I couldn't get to his (I assume) feet because the big chickens were coming in and creating a panic. How does one teach a chicken to hold still???




Next are 2 white chicks with splotches. Because of the combs I am assuming one is male and the other female, but am lost as to breed. I didn't see any Brahmas or Sussex but that doesn't mean they didn't have any. I had my husband ask him and he said he didn't have any, but his girlfriend has chickens, and he doesn't seem to know or care what she has.


There are also two brown ones, again big and little comb. They are marked almost alike, you just can't see it in the shaded pic.


Also 2 of them seem to be all black except for a bit of white at the very bottom edge of the wing that you can't always see.


Here is another shot of the 2 black ones as opposed to the ones I think are sex links. The white is leghorn and the grey a Sapphire gem. They are from the 2 week older group.)


Thanks for any help you can give me!

 

[JedJackson]

More than likely they are mixes of different breeds from a hatchery, and they mostly sell layers. So I think they will all lay well.

The male in the first picture could be a black sex link cross, or an Australorp cross.

The white and black ones could be Delaware crosses. One male, one female.

The red ones are most likely Rhode Island red crosses. The one with the larger comb could be male but shows no male specific feathering yet. That should come in around 12 to 14 weeks, although it can be earlier or later.

The black ones, probably Australorp crosses, and the blue could be, too.

The pure white one, maybe a Leghorn cross.

The last picture, the black one looks to be close to a black sex link in color, so it could be a cross of that or it could be a RIR crossed onto an Australorp or barred rock. The two barred ones are probably males and barred rock crosses.

 

[Sherrirod]

More than likely they are mixes of different breeds from a hatchery, and they mostly sell layers. So I think they will all lay well.

The male in the first picture could be a black sex link cross, or an Australorp cross.

The white and black ones could be Delaware crosses. One male, one female.

The red ones are most likely Rhode Island red crosses. The one with the larger comb could be male but shows no male specific feathering yet. That should come in around 12 to 14 weeks, although it can be earlier or later.

The black ones, probably Australorp crosses, and the blue could be, too.

The pure white one, maybe a Leghorn cross.

The last picture, the black one looks to be close to a black sex link in color, so it could be a cross of that or it could be a RIR crossed onto an Australorp or barred rock. The two barred ones are probably males and barred rock crosses.

Thanks. I'll look up Australorp and Delaware. I do remember that he said he had Rhode Island Reds and Red Rocks which I think are the black sex links.

 

[Greta S]

I am not an expert in chickens AT ALL, but I had an Easter Egger rooster that looked a lot like your white ones (photos 2 & 3). Apparently they are different because the females have more of a “pattern” in their coloring. Here is a picture of mine. Again, I might be wrong. I currently can’t differentiate between some of my chicken breeds and have given up.