Anyone Know What Color These Chicks Are?

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One of our bantam hens went broody in a stall and had an excellent hatch, they'll get moved to the nicer stall as soon as they can all walk. 10 chicks out right now with the late eggs in our incubator right now. The hen is a bantam easter egger x dun old english bantam cross. All her chicks appear to have our old english dun roo as their father (the only other roos present were a blue birchen silkie and a dark blue birchen satin). The first three photos are of a khaki and a dark chipmunk, and the hen. The last photo is of the chicks we were wondering the color of. Although I'm starting to think the chicks in the last photo are dun and the dark colored chipmunks we got are another color... could someone confirm this?
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Hi! Sorry I didn't know, just a question and a thought. Has she hatched that many chicks before? If she hasn't I would monitor her once chicks get too big to fit under her. I've seen posts here where the hen started liking her chicks once they couldn't fit under her but still needed her warmth.
 
Hi! Sorry I didn't know, just a question and a thought. Has she hatched that many chicks before? If she hasn't I would monitor her once chicks get too big to fit under her. I've seen posts here where the hen started liking her chicks once they couldn't fit under her but still needed her warmth.
This is her first time going broody but if there's any issues with the chicks we have a brooder set up for our incubator chicks (silkie chicks) all we have to do is turn the heat plate on and wait a little.
 
UPDATE! One chick (a khaki) is dead (in case anyone wanted to know) and we have 11 chicks left. At the moment it looks like the reddish colored chipmunks are duns and the dark colored chipmunks are silver duckwings like their bantam EE grandfather.
 

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