Breed of white and black chickens?

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I have these white chicks with black splotches, and I don't know what breed they are. Some are half cochin bantam, resulting in feathery feet, but I'm hoping their coloring can give clues as to their other parent. However, this is unreliable because siblings of theirs who took after the cochin's coloring are solid black, I guess, though chicks from separate kinds of mothers have the same funny coloring. For example I have a good guess that one of these white and black chicks is half barred rock, because it came from the same kind of egg as two other chicks, one of whom is obviously the son of the only barred rock in the flock, a hen. (See the picture with the three chicks. The white and black ones have the feathered feet, and the gray one is the barred rock. The latter must have been sired by a full sized roo, because he is much bigger and has clean feet.) but the white kid looks the same as the chicks who do not have his barred rock mother. As another twist, their black sister is fibro melanistic?! Where did that come from?
 

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So you have one big flock with more than one roo? If so you'll only likely know the mom if you can identify eggs. Roosters can cover many hens, and while possibly when they're older there could be a decent guess, genetics are unpredictable among mixed breeds and when you hatch eggs from them it's kind of a toss up. The breed of chicks you have is a lovely backyard mix that'll hopefully be good foragers and good layers
 
So you have one big flock with more than one roo? If so you'll only likely know the mom if you can identify eggs. Roosters can cover many hens, and while possibly when they're older there could be a decent guess, genetics are unpredictable among mixed breeds and when you hatch eggs from them it's kind of a toss up. The breed of chicks you have is a lovely backyard mix that'll hopefully be good foragers and good layers
My friend does, I got these eggs from hers. I knew you would be a case of barnyard scramble, but I was hoping for a few clues- if these white chicks look something like a breed you are familiar with lemme know.
The above pics are old- I'm about to get new ones.
 
Here's better photos, and also three of another pullet that I am wondering about. She's from a different flock that I'm not at all familiar with.
 

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Here's better photos, and also three of another pullet that I am wondering about. She's from a different flock that I'm not at all familiar with.
Unfortunately they're very likely just backyard mixes. It's nothing to be ashamed about, but you're not going to have any purebreds among them unless for sure they have one rooster with a hen of the same breed and they know she said that egg. I'm guessing they all free range together, not set up in breeding pens/enclosures?

Color genetics will very wildly in backyard flocks (which ime is why they're so much fun) especially since it's hard to predict what the parents genes can hold, even if they're from the feed store they could have genes in there you wouldn't see in show quality breeding stock.

I don't see any breeds in your babies, I would guess the white/black ones are paint (not silkie mixes, just likely had a parent with a black gene and a parent with a dom. white gene) and the other looks red which could be from a ton of different mixes (also just FYI that white one on the last pic looks like a boy)
 

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