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I recently got 6 chicks from TSC, they are supposed to be two Barred Rocks and two Jersey Giants . They are 3 weeks old and two are mostly black with black legs and small white tipped wing feathers. (3&4)One is beginning to look like a Wyandotte (1) except for it’s comb and one kinda looks like a Australorp (2) The other two are Americanas . Here is a picture of the day I got them and then today.
 

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GrammyW said:
I recently got 6 chicks from TSC, they are supposed to be two Barred Rocks and two Jersey Giants . They are 3 weeks old and two are mostly black with black legs and small white tipped wing feathers. (3&4)One is beginning to look like a Wyandotte (1) except for it’s comb and one kinda looks like a Australorp (2) The other two are Americanas . Here is a picture of the day I got them and then today.
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Welcome. I may be wrong, but I think 1&2 look like barred rocks and 3&4 are Jersey Giants.
 
Good idea to write the numbers on the photos for clarity!

GrammyW said:
two are mostly black with black legs and small white tipped wing feathers. (3&4)
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Those two look like they could be Black Australorps, or Black Jersey Giants, or Black Sexlinks, or pretty much any other kind of black chicken with single combs.

You could look at the bottoms of their feet to rule out some of the options: Australorps should have white soles, Jersey Giants should have yellow soles. Black Sexlinks could go either way, but I think yellow soles are more common than white for them.

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One is beginning to look like a Wyandotte (1) except for it’s comb
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I agree, that does have the coloring of a Gold Laced Wyandotte.
Since Wyandottes do sometimes produce single comb chicks, instead of the rose combs they are supposed to, you might have a wrong-comb Wyandotte there.

GrammyW said:
and one kinda looks like a Australorp (2)
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I think #2 could be any of the breeds I mentioned for #3 and #4.
Chick #2 looks male to me, and I think #1 also looks male.

GrammyW said:
...they are supposed to be two Barred Rocks...
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There are no Barred Rocks in your photos. Barred Rocks would have white barring that goes across their black feathers.

The white feathers in the wingtips are fairly common for any kind of black chicken. They usually get replaced by black feathers during one of the molts before the chick finishes growing up.
 
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NatJ said:
Good idea to write the numbers on the photos for clarity!


Those two look like they could be Black Australorps, or Black Jersey Giants, or Black Sexlinks, or pretty much any other kind of black chicken with single combs.

You could look at the bottoms of their feet to rule out some of the options: Australorps should have white soles, Jersey Giants should have yellow soles. Black Sexlinks could go either way, but I think yellow soles are more common that white for them.


I agree, that does have the coloring of a Gold Laced Wyandotte.
Since Wyandottes do sometimes produce single comb chicks, instead of the rose combs they are supposed to, you might have a wrong-comb Wyandotte there.


I think #2 could be any of the breeds I mentioned for #3 and #4.
Chick #2 looks male to me, and I think #1 also looks male.


There are no Barred Rocks in your photos. Barred Rocks would have white barring that goes across their black feathers.

The white feathers in the wingtips are fairly common for any kind of black chicken. They usually get replaced by black feathers during one of the molts before the chick finishes growing up.
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Great post, thank you @NatJ
 

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