Are we Japanese Bantams?

[IcarusSomnio]

I bought a Japanese Bantam hen at auction with five chicks. Four 'white/buff' (they USED to be white, now their buff/tanish) and one black-brown one. All had feathered shanks. I lost three unexpectedly. They just got weak and keeled over

I'm wondering if the remaining two are Japanese Bantams or some sort of cross breed? Something completely different? Hen was black-tailed white. I never got any pictures of her, she was a 'OH DEAR GOD IT'S A HUMAN RUN!' kinda hen. Loud too O-O

One makes the usual: Peep peep peep! noise but the other makes a kind of clucky-gobbly noise...?
Like hen like chick, these two are a real pain to catch and hold.

Sorry about the quality of the pics, snapped them with my web cam. Cameras in the car ^^':

Chicklet 1, the bigger one:

Chicklet 2, the smaller one:

 

[ve]

Japanese are not featherleged.I think they are mixes( may be with Cochin).Or they can be pure Cochin bantams .Post pictures when grow-up.

 

[jerry2009]

yup definatly no japanese...and not even cochins either cause there tails are too upright...probably just a mix...

 

[tiki244]

They seem to have short legs so they must be a japanese mix.

 

[austinhart123]

im going to say either poorly bred cochins (just cuase their tails are upright doesnt mean they arent cochins, just a bad example of the breed) or cochins mixed with japs

 

[IcarusSomnio]

When I got them the hen was brooding them, so I'd guess they where her eggs that she hatched. I did get them at auction so for all I know they could be some sort of whatever-rooster-happened-to-be-around Siljapacochin

They where such cuties when they where little and white. Now everyone seems to be going through the ugly duckling phase as they get their 'real feathers' in.