Breeds, please?!

[jlkcamper]

We bought our 6 hens from a local farmer just over a week ago; ever since then, my husband & I have disagreed on what they are. So I turn to my knowledgeable new friends at BYC

to help identify them.

We have 4 red hens:

And 2 black hens:

We have gotten 14 eggs from them since bringing them home last Saturday evening, and have loved watching them! I haven't named them yet...still watching them to learn their personalities. We just call them "The girls" for now.
We built our coop, but it is still a work in progress...in fact, we had to finish enclosing it last Sunday just to put them in it!

 

[draye]

Just a guess here: Production Reds and Black Australorps.

 

[chickenlover54]

New Hampshire Reds, a Black Sex Link, and an Australorp

 

[jlkcamper]

Thanks! I know they're not the best pictures and it can be hard to tell. I was guessing New Hampshire Red, but the black ones just had me

My hubby says Gold Star for the reds & Sexton (???) for the blacks. I'd heard the term Red Star before, but never Sexton. He swears that's what the farmer told him.
Needless to say, we're both new to this, so neither of us are claiming to know much

 

[Sparklee]

The first photo looks just like a regular backyard New Hampshire that has molted at least once. A couple of mine looked like that after their first molt. Not all of them molted into a bird with that much shafting. The black in the tail is a clue that she's a New Hampshire, too. She looks good.

 

[Nicole01]

The black ones look like RIR to me. I've seen them that dark.

 

[chickenlover54]

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lol SQ RIRs are Mahoganey, not Black

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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~Aspen

 

[pinkwindsong]

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are you saying black sex link becasue it has a bit of dark red to the feathers? I can tell the australorp, but I was wondering about the red int he one ?
trying to learn too
thanks )O(
Pink

 

[PepsNick]

I am kind of thinking that the "BSL" could be a FBCM/BCM?

The others do look like hatchery New Hampshires.