Black Stars and Barred Rocks are not on Ideal's "rare" list. So it can't be those. We think the ones we thought were Cuckoo are really Barred Hollands. But we'll see!
I couldn't find any pictures of that breed around the age we have, so I don't know. But I think Fayoumi and Campine are much closer. Since this pic was taken, they have lost almost all brown in the head, and have a very defined white neck with white spots blending into black as you go back from...
These are our "rare pullet special" chicks from Ideal, hatch date 2/1. Hoping we might get a better idea of what they are. We have some guesses, that I'll add to the post, but don't let it sway you Our guesses come from what they looked like as day olds, and from the color of feathering so...