Help with breed identification

[NerdyBird]

I have 4 of these birds that I purchased at TSC in July 2021. The chicks were labeled as silver laced wyandottes and I was unsure at first, but quickly knew for certain that they were not SLW when they started getting juvenile feathers. One is a rooster and the other 3 are hens (as far as I know) and the comb on the rooster is more obvious. My question is... what the heck do I Have?!? The hens and rooster all have black beaks, black shanks and black feathers with a green/purple sheen throughout. I'll attach pictures of the rooster and one hen and hopefully someone can help me out. I thought Australorps or black Jersey Giants, but they all appear to have rose or pea combs. I'm no expert in combs, so I could be mistaken. And they are still relatively young, so there could be further development in time.

 

[NerdyBird]

I'm assuming they are just very low quality hatchery Wyandottes. I can't think of any other breed that would be from a hatchery, be LF, be black, and have rose combs.

I was thinking along those lines. And I'm sure that they're very low quality hatchery breeding. They were too good of a deal to pass up, $0.50 each. It's no big deal, I have no designs on breeding them, unless they prove to be good layers. I only keep chickens for eggs. It's just been driving me nuts because I couldn't figure out what breed they were. Black shanks and beaks like an Australorp, but rose combs. Thought my best bet would be to ask the masses on here so I could at least have some idea of what other people believed them to be. Thanks for all your help and I greatly appreciate it.

 

[nicalandia]

Possibly so. They aren't breeders for me, except if I want some barnyard mix. Just been bugging me because I haven't ever had any chickens with rose combs and had no idea what they were

You can keep crossing them with Wyandottes to get a very good type and color. Not many people have Black Wyandottes, or Black Barred Rocks or Black Leghorns

 

[nicalandia]

Black Plymouth Rocks, you mean? I'd love some black wyandottes, personally.

Yes, I meant Black Plymouth Rocks with Yellow Shanks and all

 

[Painted Calls]

Pics of the the whole birds, standing naturally are most helpful for ID.

That being said, they appear to be black Wyandottes.

 

[The chicken nurd]

Yep black Wyandottes
I also see at at least 1 cockerel in the pictures

 

[NerdyBird]

Yep black Wyandottes
I also see at at least 1 cockerel in the pictures

Thanks! This is my first set of Wyandottes, so I'm not too familiar with their characteristics. I figure they're just hatchery quality and that's why they have incorrect shank color.

 

[nicalandia]

it does not look like a Black Wyandotte, and while is quite hard to have a completely black bird with clean yellow shanks(they are not extended black, they are Birchen based with melanizers), the male shown on this thread is clearly a Wyandotte x Black breed cross. the Rose comb is dominant so it will be shown F1, and a gold laced Wyandotte crossed with a Extended black bird the rooster would be all black due to the melanizers(Ml and Pg)

 

[NerdyBird]

Pics of the the whole birds, standing naturally are most helpful for ID.

That being said, they appear to be black Wyandottes.

Thanks! I'll try to update and add more pics of the entire bird for clearer identification.

 

[NerdyBird]

I have 4 of these birds that I purchased at TSC in July 2021. The chicks were labeled as silver laced wyandottes and I was unsure at first, but quickly knew for certain that they were not SLW when they started getting juvenile feathers. One is a rooster and the other 3 are hens (as far as I know) and the comb on the rooster is more obvious. My question is... what the heck do I Have?!? The hens and rooster all have black beaks, black shanks and black feathers with a green/purple sheen throughout. I'll attach pictures of the rooster and one hen and hopefully someone can help me out. I thought Australorps or black Jersey Giants, but they all appear to have rose or pea combs. I'm no expert in combs, so I could be mistaken. And they are still relatively young, so there could be further development in time.

Update with more pics: