Did some mixes slip in with our partridge chanteclers?

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We bought 13 chicks that are supposed to be partridge chanteclers, but the lady had a few other varieties of chick in the same box and wasn't 100% sure about all of them.

All the pictures I can find of PCs are brown and black, but a few of the chicks we have, while the feather patterns are the same, are black on white.

Here is a picture of what I mean. Can anyone (especially anyone with partridge chanteclers) shed some light on this?
 

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I have one partridge chantecler, and all the other partridge Chanteclers I've seen are darker. I'm not an expert on chanteclers, but I think I would second your suspicion on it not being full chantecler.
 
Ya I'm not familiar with partridge chanteclers but that chick doesn't have a partridge pattern.
You are correct that partridge should be brown and black. Partridge are gold base hence the brown.
Any of the chicks without brown aren't partridge.
 
I am not sure what the other breeds were - she had quite a variety in her yard, but the chicks were from eggs that she bought, not her birds.

Here is an updated pic (from today). There are two of the white-breasted ones. They are both boys, as far as I can tell, and heavier than the other chicks.
Do the other chicks in the pic all look like partridge chanteclers to you? It is a little hard to find reference photos of the immature birds. Some of them seem to have a little crest on their head - like the bird on the far left and far right of this photo. Is that normal for the breed?
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Can't see the one on top left too well but doubt it is since none of the others are partridge chanteclers

I am confused by your reply, do you mean that none of these look like PC's?

Edited my post for clarity. As I said, the lady bought them as hatching eggs, she didn't breed them herself.
 
Correct.
None look like partridge chanteclers.
PC do not have crests.
Doesn't even look like any two look the same.
I'm guessing all are mixed breeds.
Sorry
 

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