Help with ID on some Roosters

[BeekeeperChick]

I purchased chicks from two hatcheries last August/September. From the list of breeds I ordered, can y'all help identify the breeds of a few of my roosters. A list of the breeds I ordered to select from included below.
There are five roosters and I need to thin my herd. Knowing what breed will help.
Thank you all in advance for any insight. Happy Chicken Keeping!

Female F2 Olive Egger
Female Black Laced Red Wyandotte
Female Easter Egger
Female Dark Brahma
Blue Egger Female Surplus
Female Black Laced Silver Wyandotte
Assorted Marans
Americana
Sapphire Splash
Sapphire Gem
Assorted Colored Egg Layer

 

[talkinboutchickens]

Very very unsure about the first few. But i know roosters 4, 5, and 6 for sure.

4: blue copper maran
5: black copper maran
6: americana/Easter egger, possibly olive egger

 

[talkinboutchickens]

At first, for the first guy I thought sapphire gem, but those are way lighter in color, almost a lavender-ish color with barring for the roosters. So possibly an OE instead. The dark blue rooster with chocolate eyes looks like a blue jersey giant to me. The splash one doesn't seem like any on the list. Not even the splash maran, which has a bigger build and different colored legs. Possibly an OE mix? But idk for sure.

 

[BeekeeperChick]

At first, for the first guy I thought sapphire gem, but those are way lighter in color, almost a lavender-ish color with barring for the roosters. So possibly an OE instead. The dark blue rooster with chocolate eyes looks like a blue jersey giant to me. The splash one doesn't seem like any on the list. Not even the splash maran, which has a bigger build and different colored legs. Possibly an OE mix? But idk for sure.

The barred rooster looks like a Cuckoo Marans, but I did not order that breed. The white rooster that is splashed with black is on the small side as are the hens (they look just like him) Thank you for your ID help! For sure the guy standing at the base of the jungle gym/pyramid thingie is the Black Copper Marans! Thank you, he fits the description perfectly.

 

[redinator]

If any of those guys fit into your breeding plans I'd remove one or two with the worst temperament first, then wait a couple weeks.

Once they're removed the hierarchy of the flock will change. A previously well behaved cockerel may become aggressive if they take the top spot.

Remove another 1 or 2 at and wait, continue the process until you have the best rooster(s) remaining.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Marans are white skinned/shanked, the barred bird has yellow legs. Additionally as he shows only one copy of the barring gene you can see that he is mixed rather than being a result of a pure breeding of two barred parents. Well, as mentioned above, Sapphire gem males tend to be a bit lighter in coloration, it's not a set in stone rule because, again, they are mixed and that can throw all kinds of variants into how the genes are expressed. Of what you have listed and looking at him overall, that is the most likely identity but it's not certain
Olive egger and 'americana' have no one standard appearance.. as they can result from any number of mixings and crossings. The spelling of the latter is used to misrepresent them as the true breed ameraucana in a bit of false marketing employed by many hatcheries

 

[BeekeeperChick]

If any of those guys fit into your breeding plans I'd remove one or two with the worst temperament first, then wait a couple weeks.

Once they're removed the hierarchy of the flock will change. A previously well behaved cockerel may become aggressive if they take the top spot.

Remove another 1 or 2 at and wait, continue the process until you have the best rooster(s) remaining.

Right now the top guy is the red one, then the barred (he stays, he's like a puppy), the Black Marans stays, so now it's really the white floppy comb guy on the jungle gym or the all black guy that are on the elimination list. All of them are wonderful gentlemen to the ladies and myself (and let me handle the without issue) of course they run each other around. And little speckled guy is going, he is too small and is getting picked on a lot, even by the old hens.

Thank you! I appreciate the idea to remove slowly, I'd like to see the BCM not be so meek and picked on, it's not bad but he is low on the pole.

 

[BeekeeperChick]

Marans are white skinned/shanked, the barred bird has yellow legs.

Good catch! Thank you!!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

One more question with the potential of throwing a huge wrench into working from your list, did you receive exactly the number of chicks ordered or were there any extra/ free chicks thrown in?

 

[redinator]

Is this "the white floppy comb guy on the jungle gym" you're talking about? He looks very similar to may Easter Egger (Americana) mine has a more grey base color. If you want some blue egg genes in your flock I'd keep him around.