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7/20/12 at 8:06pm

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Seven out of nine bantams from MPC made it out to West Texas safely. I ordered the clean legged bantam assortment, as I don't think the more heavily feathered breeds would do well in our heat. Here's their morning huddle:

I can pick out the WCBP chicks and I know most of the others are EE's, but I'm not too sure about a couple of favorites. Could you chime in with some guesses, please?

Here's Lily at 5 days (maybe a lighter colored EE)?

And this is Clover-I am totally new to chickens, so I have no idea what she is, except cute and very bold ;)

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7/20/12 at 8:07pm

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7/20/12 at 8:25pm

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Very cute, good luck and enjoy them.

Married mother of 3 amazing kids, 2 boys and a girl. I love animals, I have 3 dogs, a dogue de bordeaux, a shih tzu and a goldie. I have recently got a kitten, he is an exotic short hair, a persian without all the hair. My new addiction, silkies. I have my first silkie chicks, 2 are partridge and 2 buff and 1 that has turned into a beautiful Colombian cockerel. I have recently added 2 blues a...

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7/20/12 at 11:15pm

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Awww! Way too cute. Mine came from MPC this past Tuesday and one of them is the assorted polish and two are assorted silkies. I just went on to the MPC website and looked at every related photo to compare coloring and markings. It looks like my 2 silkies are blue and the polish looks to be a white crested blue polish. Looks like you have two polish, very similar to mine, maybe related?? Here's a picture of my little Phyllis:

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7/20/12 at 11:56pm

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Whats MCB? Can we have a link to see what breeds they are?

The first one I'm hesitant to guess, but so far grey EE is my guess

Bottom one is a 100% EE, typical coloring :) just a darker one

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7/21/12 at 7:22am

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http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog/Day-Old-Baby-Chicks/Assorted-Non-Feather-Legged-Bantams-p783.aspx

MPC is My Pet Chicken, and the link for their bantam assortment is posted above. I too thought Clover might be another EE, but her legs are a different color, so that threw me. Do their legs come in brown, too?

Thanks for replying =)

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7/21/12 at 1:48pm

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