Anyone know what breed these little bantams might be?

[CelesteBattin]

I was hoping I might be able to get some help with IDing these three little bantams. They’re part of 50 assorted bantam chicks I’ve been raising. The rooster is the sweetest thing but I just have no idea what color/breed he or these two hens are. The other birds are mostly Cochin bantams, Brahma bantams, and Japanese bantams. I ordered them As “Hatchery Choice Bantams” through Tractor Supply just shy of two months ago. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Gray Farms]

Old English Game bantams

 

[CelesteBattin]

Old English Game bantams

That’s what I was leaning towards, too. Do you have any guess on colors?

 

[Gray Farms]

Splash
Blue
Blue Mottled

 

[Ladybird CA]

Self blue pullet, blue cockerel, blue pullet

 

[Ladybird CA]

Didn't see the dark feathers, she is splash, Gray Farms is right

 

[CelesteBattin]

I could definitely see that. I guess what really threw me off was that the only OEGB varieties in this assorted bantam mix were supposedly BB Red, Barred, Blue, Crele, and Red Pyle. Is it common for hatcheries to just sub in additional colors like that? I don’t mind at all! I think they’re beautiful no matter what color they are. I’m just very new to ordering from hatcheries! I went through Tractor Supply’s website and they shipped from Hoover’s Hatchery

 

[Ladybird CA]

I noticed that yesterday too, they have individual breeds listed and then when you look at their assorted packages such as assorted cochins for example, they have several colours of cochins but no red frizzle listed but then there is a picture of a red frizzle on the assorted cochins picture. So they likely have breeds that just aren't listed because people are getting some that there is no explanation for.

 

[CelesteBattin]

Okay I’m glad I’m not going crazy over here haha. I was really confused as to why I couldn’t find anything similar to my own under the breeds they had listed!

Also, if you are considering ordering their assorted bantam package I might recommend against it. I went with it because I was hoping for a decent mix of the 18 or so listed color/breed combinations that they claimed could be included but instead I ended up with a mere 4 or 5 different color/breed combos: roughly 1/3 of my 50 birds were BTW Japanese Bantams, about 1/3 were Buff Cochin Bantams, just shy of 1/3 were Buff Brahma Bantams, and then I received these three little OEG Bantams as well. So very little variety.

The birds all arrived very healthy and are thriving but I really wish I had just hand-picked my own colors/breeds so I would have had a better mix.

 

[Ladybird CA]

I think with hatcheries it's a toss up of whatever is available at the time. Assortments are meant to fill orders of extra birds that hatch. For example I had many assortment orders with Ideal poultry- sometimes there was almost 1 or 2 each of a breed so lots of variety but there was a time where I only got 2 varieties in an order of 25 chicks. The time of year that you order also could influence what you get as well although it is spring time so I would think there should be lots of variety.