Help me identify these chickens

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My husband picked up these and the brown ones are supposed to be brown leghorn pullets (17 weeks) and the other I’m not sure (it is 11 weeks). Can anyone help me one of the leghorns seems like a cockerel but doesn’t have the right coloring?
 

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Not certain what the first bird is, but the second two are light brown leghorn pullets. One is just maturing earlier than the other and will lay soon if she has not already started.
 
The first one looks like an Easter Egger (probably bred to be an Olive Egger - "Starlight Green Egger") pullet and the other girls I would say look like Brown Leghorn pullets to me as well. Egg color will tell you more.
 
That is great to hear, I was worried that it was a rooster with its comb being so different than the other
 
That is great to hear, I was worried that it was a rooster with its comb being so different than the other
Nah, with leghorns you have to go with feather development. It’s a trait of the breed that both males and females have very large combs, since they are optimized to do better in hot climates than other common breeds.
 

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