5 day old chicks - guesses on breed and color?

[suburbanoutlawchick]

Our broody successfully hatched 8 chicks, 5 days ago, from a variety of fertile eggs from a friend's barnyard. The breeds she has are - auracana, Easter egger, lavender orpington, white cochin, blue hamburg, red shouldered yokohama, and a mystery black breed (I'm guessing Java, JG, or Australorp). She also had BCMs, but none of these chicks hatched from a dark egg, though there's a chance the rooster crossed with a different breed of hen. Any ideas on what I've got here and what colors they seem to be? There seem to be 2 different types that are black - 3 that are almost all black with dark smokey gray wings, and one that is a darker black contrasted by cream on chest and belly. The others are cool gray with eyeliner, pale yellow with just a hint of silver on its back, warm gray with reddish brown back, and golden with a chipmunk stripe.

I'm excited to see how they feather out, but just curious if anyone has ideas in the meantime ;-)

 

[The Moonshiner]

Sounds like you have a bunch of mix breed chicks.
Be pretty hard to figure out which chicks have which parents. You'd have to have a complete list of what rooster and what hens they have then maybe narrow some down by features as feathered legs or not, comb types, etc. etc.

Adult colors/patterns would also be hard to say at this point.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

agree with @The Moonshiner

 

[Gray Farms]

Very likely to be all crossbreds. Won't be able to tell their color until they get theirs adult feathers in. And then they may not fit a specific color or pattern being crosses.

 

[suburbanoutlawchick]

So, you're saying I just have to be patient? Dang ;-)

 

[Gray Farms]

yup, afraid so.

 

[suburbanoutlawchick]

Update! Pretty sure we've got 4 cockerels and 3 pullets (lost 1 baby early on). What do you think? Guesses on breeds? I think the ones that looked smokey black as chicks are maybe Blue Hamburgs (1 cockerel, 2 pullets) and the black chick with cream tips is maybe a Black Jersey Giant (she's huge and has yellow soles). I'm particularly curious about the one with the dove gray tail and (maybe?) red lacing. I think I see saddle feathers and the start of pointy hackles... Thoughts?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Update! Pretty sure we've got 4 cockerels and 3 pullets (lost 1 baby early on). What do you think? Guesses on breeds? I think the ones that looked smokey black as chicks are maybe Blue Hamburgs (1 cockerel, 2 pullets) and the black chick with cream tips is maybe a Black Jersey Giant (she's huge and has yellow soles). I'm particularly curious about the one with the dove gray tail and (maybe?) red lacing. I think I see saddle feathers and the start of pointy hackles... Thoughts?

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The bird in the first and the lavender bird in the third picture look to be your cockerels.

 

[drumstick diva]

agree

 

[JedJackson]

Update! Pretty sure we've got 4 cockerels and 3 pullets (lost 1 baby early on). What do you think? Guesses on breeds? I think the ones that looked smokey black as chicks are maybe Blue Hamburgs (1 cockerel, 2 pullets) and the black chick with cream tips is maybe a Black Jersey Giant (she's huge and has yellow soles). I'm particularly curious about the one with the dove gray tail and (maybe?) red lacing. I think I see saddle feathers and the start of pointy hackles... Thoughts?

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Of the new pictures:

1. Blue Hamburg, probably cockerel but not 100%.
2. Blue Hamburg or maybe Hamburg cross, pullet.
3. Bird on the left looks like a Yokohama cross. Lean toward it being a pullet. Bird on the right is probably a cross breed, too, involving either the Araucana or Yokohama and probably the blue Hamburg. This one is likely a cockerel.
4. Probably Jersey Giant or JG cross. Likely a pullet.
5. Blue Hamburg and Yokohama cross. I think both are pullets, but the Yokohama could be a slow developing cockerel. Time will tell.
6. White bird in the middle could be a Hamburg/Yokohama cross. The comb is small but red at an early age. So probably a cockerel.

I think it would be wise to wait a few more weeks on some of these before make a final judgement on gender.