Adopted 3 hens, help me guess

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I have three new hens I adopted and I have my assumptions but would love to hear what you think.
I'm confused about the white one because I was told she's a Buff. But, all my neighbors who have buffs and seeing photos online she doesn't have that light faded brown color. She's more of a creme shade.


The one in the middle I think is an Ameracauna. She lays blue eggs.

The last one on the far right, which is so beautiful I call her cleopatra the Egyptian goddess:p I think is an aracauna. I'm not too familiar with this breed so I'm really wanting to know. I noticed she doesn't have the dangly waffles. Or feathers around her neck.

Help! I need to know so I can stop driving myself crazy with guessing. :lol:

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I have three new hens I adopted and I have my assumptions but would love to hear what you think.
I'm confused about the white one because I was told she's a Buff. But, all my neighbors who have buffs and seeing photos online she doesn't have that light faded brown color. She's more of a creme shade.


The one in the middle I think is an Ameracauna. She lays blue eggs.

The last one on the far right, which is so beautiful I call her cleopatra the Egyptian goddess:p I think is an aracauna. I'm not too familiar with this breed so I'm really wanting to know. I noticed she doesn't have the dangly waffles. Or feathers around her neck.

Help! I need to know so I can stop driving myself crazy with guessing. :lol:

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and Cleopatra was not a goddess, she was a Pharoah. (I guess according to their mythology, that would mean by default she was considered a goddess?)
 
x2 on the colored birds.

I wonder if their beards may have been picked out. They don't have wattles to speak of, which is a bearded bird trait, and their necks look awfully bare, and there's a flap of skin there on Cleopatra. The beards do grow on a skin flap.

The white bird looks like a mix of some sort, btw.
 
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Maybe delaware/mix? Looks like a dual purpose breed. (The white one)

Oh, if one of the parents was a white leghorn (dominant white) and bred to a buff orpington, you could get a bird that is white with buff leakage, which I think I see in the picture?

Doesn't really look like BO body to me though, anyone else?
 
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Thought i'd put my two-cents in... Beautiful birds!!! the middle one looks like my welsummers hen without the comb or waddle...interesting(an ameracauna/EE?) The one on the right,Cleopatra, looks just like my friend's Ameracauna/ easter-egger hen....which, i've always thought is just beautiful, and they lay blue or green eggs. :)
 
The white one could be an Amber White, which is a cross between a Rhode Island Red and a Rhode Island White. They are sometimes white, or sometimes a yellowish color. They can also have random darker feathers grow in (yellow or tan). They lay tan eggs.
 

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