Any ideas of the breeds here? 10 week chicks.

Sometimes, we just have to keep that freeloader around, and we'll be happier chicken keepers for it. If you like her, keep her. No second guessing.
Well...she is definitely working the angles.

The hatchlings were locked out of the coop tonight and huddled at the door...the wind must have blown the door closed.

Since I don't handle my broody hatches as much as I used to with the heat lamp brood, my hatchlings tend to be more human fearful.

Of course the others wanted to run away, a couple made pecks at me, except Little Blue...she let me pick her up and open the door and put her in the roost. The rest quickly followed her example...no hassle for me tonight.

It's begun.

Thanks for the advice.
Lady of McCamley
 
They all look like Easter egger mixes to me (other than the barred rock in the one pick. lol). I'd say it's likely that the people you got the eggs from had an Easter egger rooster in with their laying hens, and the ones you can't identify are the result of that cross.
I spent some time looking at them...and I think Blue you've nailed it. An EE roo with layer crosses.

Another poster recognized the Blue Bird as a Sumatra with EE...and she showed me photos and had a really knowledgeable reasons for the EE blood and the Sumatra.

So...knowing that an EE roo could be at work...

My guess is #3 with the rose comb is a Wyandotte (maybe partridge or gold laced) hen with the EE roo. The Welsummer mix...possibly EE roo too as I think I see some EE type "ticking" coming into the neck...then we have the identified Blue Bird as Sumatra/EE.

Interesting. I wonder if I'll get any colored eggs? Or is that generally only with pea combs and slate legs.
Lady of McCamley
 
IMO would be reasonable to rule out EE influence- lacking any of the usual traits- beard, pea comb, didn't come from colored eggs, legs are yellow... just too many coincidences to be all lacking at once.

The one hen with strange comb could be from a line of repeated rose comb bred to single comb. When that's done, sometimes the rose comb dramatically changes and varies in appearence including some with a mostly single looking comb with a strange rose combish small part.

Was tempted to guess pencilled or partridge rock as part of her mix but the rose combs makes me lean to wyandotte mixed with not-wyandotte.. especially as the other one has a clear rose comb. The reason for thinking pencilled/partridge is because she has faint, incomplete pencilling on her feathers however pencilled or partridge or even laced wyandotte still can be a reasonable guess as if the birds are not pure for the necessary genes for pencilling, partridge, lacing can and will produce similar markings on these two and also the slight half moon spangling on her sister's breast. If those two were bred to something single laced, most likely there would be a lot of offspring showing clearer but still incomplete pencilling, single and double lacing.

One is showing darker red tint so perhaps some RIR influence, the other one is more golden, perhaps gold laced was in the mix also. This mix would explain the clear yellow legs as well. Welsumer could work as well they do have a gene that darkens the brown tones to the feathers- the dark egg trait is easily lost through crossing.

Third one looks like a sebright mix to me- that dark upper neck feathers, slight darkness to her facial skin, and long tail does show up in sebright cross/mixes. Especially if her skin is flesh or white(if soles are white, she has white skin- which sebrights have)
 
Okay...so we are in agreement, pretty much, that they are mixes...no doubt about that in anyone's mind.

I think #1 is a Wyandotte mix...partridge, gold laced, unlaced, something Wyandotte. I looked really closely at her rose comb with photos of Wyandotte pullets, and they are identical and she has a lot of that body shape. Mixed...with what? That the Good Lord alone may only know and the roo with the smile.

#2 I think is very likely a Sumatra mix...One detail I forgot was she looked like she had a black comb for the longest time and it only now is turning reddish...typical according to the person who commented through a separate inquiry of a 2nd or 3rd generation Sumatra mix. This person also stated that the extra coloring typically comes from an EE roo...possibly the one with the smile on #1? #1 really did look like an EE chick when she hatched...even with what might have been a bit of extra fluff at the cheeks (very Alvin), but they have finally fallen away with the down.

#3 is a Welsummer mix...in the photos due to the flash I can see more clearly the outline of Welsummer markings than I do with naked eye...but they are severely muted by something else...RIR is my guess.

Ameraucana was supposed to be in the bloodline, but it may be so far back that it's not showing much. Time and eggs will tell on that one, but I'm not holding my breath on getting anything other than brown eggs...actually I will be elated if I get regular eggs regularly...that game bird blood was a surprise but hopefully far enough back that no harm no foul. (pun intended...sorry).

Lady of McCamley
 
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