Help ID my flock

You have a Cuckoo Marans, a Production Red, and a Buff Orpington/Buff Orpington mix. The Cuckoo Marans is a rooster, but the other two are hens.

You can tell a true Rhode Island Red from a Production Red by the overall color. True RIRs are a deep mahogany all over their bodies, with some black on their wings. On the other hand, Production Reds are a lighter, rather brick red in color. They often have black in their tail feathers and other portions of their body, instead of just on the wings.

Both Production Reds and RIRs can be differentiated from Red Sex-links in that RSLs have white in their tail feathers and wings.
 
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