Can you help me?

[cajungirl0717]

Hey y’all! We bought these little chicks on August 4 from Tractor Supply. I posted about them Here. When I had visited the Tractor Supply on the Monday of that week, they had bins separating the breeds. But when we went back on the Wednesday, there was only one bin, with potentially 3 different breeds and no signs. And the lady wasn’t 100% sure. She told me they were all Dominiques, but after lots of research on here and other sites, I think the yellow one may be an Australorp, and the dark ones Mystic Onyx. What do you think? They are about 14 says old (lady said they were 1 week when I went on August 2). The dark ones feet are dark at the bottom and had dark skin when I look at their bellies.
Also I think Fancy is a female based on an old wives tale about tail feathers developing at 1 week. None of the others have them.

ETA: Clucky, Aloysius and LeDoux have 5 or 6 toes.

 

[Mamatomany123]

Clucky may be a Dominique. The others I'm not sure of. I would worry that since they through them all in the same bin you may end up with some males. The tail theory is false.

 

[nuthatched]

Too early for gender, and breeds are getting harder since there's so many new crosses every year.
Old wives tales are just that.

 

[Tclloyd0812]

Hey y’all! We bought these little chicks on August 4 from Tractor Supply. I posted about them Here. When I had visited the Tractor Supply on the Monday of that week, they had bins separating the breeds. But when we went back on the Wednesday, there was only one bin, with potentially 3 different breeds and no signs. And the lady wasn’t 100% sure. She told me they were all Dominiques, but after lots of research on here and other sites, I think the yellow one may be an Australorp, and the dark ones Mystic Onyx. What do you think? They are about 14 says old (lady said they were 1 week when I went on August 2). The dark ones feet are dark at the bottom and had dark skin when I look at their bellies.
Also I think Fancy is a female based on an old wives tale about tail feathers developing at 1 week. None of the others have them.
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I don't really believe you have any Mystic Onyx chicks as most are born with 5 toes, though not all would be born with 5 toes depending on genes of the parents. The one with the yellow is either Australorp or Barred Rock or even a Dominique or Jersey Giant.
The solid black, I'm not sure... they could be the Mystic Onyx, a solid black Australorp chick (which isn't very likely because most have a bit of yellow), or they are a Dominique and haven't gotten their white colors, mine don't usually get theirs for about 3 weeks. It's hard to tell, and I can't say for sure what I think they are.

Tractor supply lacks in variety, so I'm doubting some of the breeds I mentioned, but every tractor supply is different and I've heard they have more of a selection now. They also have pretty birds but not all of them carry the exact qualities they should as their certain breed (not bad qualities, they just mass produce and don't choose their parents as well as other hatcheries or a local breeder would, therefore a chick could be lacking toes like the Mystic Onyx or even have colors you wouldn't normally see in a certain breed). They could even be a mix depending on the standards of tractor supply or if they sell mixes at all.

Is their skin black (not just their feet)? How many toes on each one's feet?

I noticed Fluffy has some white on its wings, and LeDoux has colors coming in as well (from what it looks like).

 

[Tclloyd0812]

Hey y’all! We bought these little chicks on August 4 from Tractor Supply. I posted about them Here. When I had visited the Tractor Supply on the Monday of that week, they had bins separating the breeds. But when we went back on the Wednesday, there was only one bin, with potentially 3 different breeds and no signs. And the lady wasn’t 100% sure. She told me they were all Dominiques, but after lots of research on here and other sites, I think the yellow one may be an Australorp, and the dark ones Mystic Onyx. What do you think? They are about 14 says old (lady said they were 1 week when I went on August 2). The dark ones feet are dark at the bottom and had dark skin when I look at their bellies.
Also I think Fancy is a female based on an old wives tale about tail feathers developing at 1 week. None of the others have them.
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HOLD ON!!!! Clucky has FIVE TOES on at least one of its feet....!!!!
This points to either a mix with a Mystic Onyx (they don't usually have the white on the face like Clucky) or a mix of some other breed with 5 toes!!!!!!

 

[Tclloyd0812]

You may have a mix! Or they really are Mystic Onyx, but just low quality??? Or different colors on Clucky?

 

[Tclloyd0812]

Hey y’all! We bought these little chicks on August 4 from Tractor Supply. I posted about them Here. When I had visited the Tractor Supply on the Monday of that week, they had bins separating the breeds. But when we went back on the Wednesday, there was only one bin, with potentially 3 different breeds and no signs. And the lady wasn’t 100% sure. She told me they were all Dominiques, but after lots of research on here and other sites, I think the yellow one may be an Australorp, and the dark ones Mystic Onyx. What do you think? They are about 14 says old (lady said they were 1 week when I went on August 2). The dark ones feet are dark at the bottom and had dark skin when I look at their bellies.
Also I think Fancy is a female based on an old wives tale about tail feathers developing at 1 week. None of the others have them.
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Another breed I just thought of would be black sex links. But that wouldn't explain the 5 toes on Clucky, so he is probably a different breed.
Sorry for so many replies, I am just trying to solve the mysterious chicks' breeds!

 

[cajungirl0717]

Clucky may be a Dominique. The others I'm not sure of. I would worry that since they through them all in the same bin you may end up with some males. The tail theory is false.

Thank you! I have a feeling the most of the others are male. 2 behave more like what I’ve read males behave. I have warned the kids that we cannot keep them all if they are male

 

[Mamatomany123]

Thank you! I have a feeling the most of the others are male. 2 behave more like what I’ve read males behave. I have warned the kids that we cannot keep them all if they are male

I have a few hens who were such buttheads (and still are). I swore they were boys but nope, just buttheads.

 

[cajungirl0717]

I don't really believe you have any Mystic Onyx chicks as most are born with 5 toes, though not all would be born with 5 toes depending on genes of the parents. The one with the yellow is either Australorp or Barred Rock or even a Dominique or Jersey Giant.
The solid black, I'm not sure... they could be the Mystic Onyx, a solid black Australorp chick (which isn't very likely because most have a bit of yellow), or they are a Dominique and haven't gotten their white colors, mine don't usually get theirs for about 3 weeks. It's hard to tell, and I can't say for sure what I think they are.

Tractor supply lacks in variety, so I'm doubting some of the breeds I mentioned, but every tractor supply is different and I've heard they have more of a selection now. They also have pretty birds but not all of them carry the exact qualities they should as their certain breed (not bad qualities, they just mass produce and don't choose their parents as well as other hatcheries or a local breeder would, therefore a chick could be lacking toes like the Mystic Onyx or even have colors you wouldn't normally see in a certain breed). They could even be a mix depending on the standards of tractor supply or if they sell mixes at all.

Is their skin black (not just their feet)? How many toes on each one's feet?

I noticed Fluffy has some white on its wings, and LeDoux has colors coming in as well (from what it looks like).

The 4 dark ones do have black skin. Aloysius and Fluffy do have a bit of white under their chin coming in. LeDoux has brown. And yes sorry I edited after I posted about the toes (I see you noticed