2 Please help identify my hens from MM

ChicknLover

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These hens are from the Meat-n-Egg Combo from MM, I am trying to figure out what I have if any of you can identify them it would be great! Descriptions are of photos left side top to bottom then right side

2 "blue" with gray legs, the feathers are light gray w/dark gray outlined (she wants to sit in nest already
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1 large green legged silver tan & brown with a red wing, (Americauna?)

1 pheasant colored yellow legs, golden head & neck

1 yellow legged, rose comb, black w/some irradescent green & brown on back and wing.

1 black (Astrolop?)

1 grey legs w/spots and pink toes, grayish white w/black speckes all over

3 all white with yellow legs (only one is pictured)

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Here are my guesses.

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You're blue girls look just like my Lucinda and she is my most favorite girl. Handle them often and they will stay with you forever! I think the others may be a GLW, a partridge wyandotte and I am not sure about the white ones.

Good Luck

Here is what Murray says about the color blue: THE COLOR BLUE: A unique genetic feature of this breed is the constant recurrence in the offspring of not only all blue chicks, but also the black, white, and black-white colors used in the original matings many generations ago to produce these blue birds. All of these chicks carry the blue genes and when mated black on white or with other blues in turn produce many blue offspring. In our breeding flocks, however, only blue males of the finest color are used.
Approximately 50% of the baby chicks will be all blue. The other 50% will be black, white, and black/white combinations.
 
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Those three are my favorites, they are very inquisitive and fly up onto me, and seem to like to be handled. THANK YOU!
 
BeckyLA Do you think the EE is a Roo? It seems more upright than the others but I haven't see the spurs develop yet, but its comb is reddish.
 
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The partrige one (second up on the left) is a easter egger.

I have one each of the blue andalusian and splash andalusians that I'd been trying to identify myself. Thanks! They are two of my favorites, bigger, more independent and freindlier than the others. The blue likes to be pet, and they are always escaping from the coop together to free range. I also have one like your black one, but she is smaller than the Andies, so I don't think she is the same breed.

My girls:
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I love this game
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top left blue andalusians
top right black australorp
2nd left EE
2nd right splash colored blue andalusian
3rd left EE (yellow legs though..)
3rd right blue Andalusian
4th left EE? (again w/ th yellow legs, maybe Golden laced wyandotte...)
4th right cornish rock

Andalusians are great, you lucky duck!!
 
Thanks for responding, the blue's and the splash are really friendly, I go out to their yard to give "treats" and they fly up and land on me! (or sneak behind me and try to steal the snack!) They are very sweet, I did have the splash escape, I had to really look at all the bird netting over the top of their pen and I found a hole, I fixed it with zip ties, I figured she went after a bug or something, I left food and water outside the pen for a week -worried she would find her way out again! The black one may be either one of these andlusians (sp) or an astrolop, I found a white feather on her wing though? The black is friendly too, but not as much as the blues or splash.
 
Wow--everyone seems happy with their andalusians--I was a little worried because I had ordered some chicks that are due next week that are andalusians. I had heard they were "standoff-ish".
 

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