6 New chicks' possible breeds?

[ChickenTenderz]

My Black Australorp went broody. Since we don't have a rooster, I got her some hatching eggs. The person I got the eggs from has Blue Australorp hens but her rooster is a mystery...she knows he is half Blue Australorp but unsure of his father. Possibly silkie since he has 5 toes and some feathering on his legs but he also has barred hackle feathers and a single comb and Blue normal (not silkie) feathers. Sorry I didn't think to take a pic of him.
I know they are really just a barnyard mix but anyway here are the 6 babies that hatched, any idea what they are mixed with? I will post more pics as they grow. Some of them have 4 toes & some 5 toes, a few have a feather or two on their legs. Guesses welcome on what they will look like as they grow up....
What are the chances of them having silkie feathers?

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

My Black Australorp went broody. Since we don't have a rooster, I got her some hatching eggs. The person I got the eggs from has Blue Australorp hens but her rooster is a mystery...she knows he is half Blue Australorp but unsure of his father. Possibly silkie since he has 5 toes and some feathering on his legs but he also has barred hackle feathers and a single comb and Blue normal (not silkie) feathers. Sorry I didn't think to take a pic of him. Anyway here are the babies that hatched, any idea what they are mixed with? I will post more pics as they grow. Some of them have 4 toes & some 5 toes, a few have a feather or two on their legs.

if the rooster is a half silkie, he would have standard feathers.

 

[ChickenTenderz]

New baby pics. Down to 5 chicks, one went missing last Sunday. (We suspect the neighbors dog) They are now almost 3 weeks old, we stole them from their mama for some cuddle time so they will be tame

 

[ChickenTenderz]

We have been bringing the chicks in for snacks (cooked egg yolk) and snuggles. Mother hen always calls them to her when we bring them back to the coop, BUT tonight she was up on a roost bar with the other hen and ignored them when they ran around chirping and looking for her. I finally got them settled together in a nesting box by themselves after a few failed attempts at getting her to go back to the normal corner with her babies. It isn't getting very cool at night here (upstate SC) but the babies are only 4 weeks old and not fully feathered. Will they be alright? Will she step in if another hen is picking on them?
Attached is a pic from a recent snuggle time.

 

[Chicalina]

Bring the mother in for cuddle time too as you are breaking the bond between them when you chicknap her babies. Or put a chair in and cuddle them in the run.

Or she may just be weaning them now (and you are hastening it potentially).

There is at least strength in numbers and they can huddle together for warmth at night. I'd avoid removing them from the flock for anything but a few minutes or you might affect their integration and with mama chicken becoming indifferent to them, they need to be flockcepted as fellow birds by the rest.

 

[ChickenTenderz]

Oh no! We were just trying to help them not be wild like the last chicks hatched by a broody. I didn't even think we would be breaking their bond. I thought of it as giving her an hour to take a break from them.
Our (different hen) broody left her chicks at 6 weeks last year and her chicks are some feral birds!

I did go down and check on them this morning. All 5 babies were sitting on the highest roost bar out in the run, our 5 hatchery teenagers were on the roost below them, and all 9 hens were out scratching around in the run.