Identify my flock.

SamLockwood

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My bird are now 9 weeks old (you can look at some older pics from last month here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/new-member-from-north-georgia.1550229/)

On the guinea side of the flock, I think I have 5 to 6 males based on relative size, the calls they make, and so on.

For example, I think these 9 week olds here are males.
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While the guinea in the sandbox on the right is a female.
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On the chicken side of things, most of the birds appear to be legbars (partridge cream legbars).

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9 weeks old. Most are varying shades of dark gray with yellowish speckled feathers around the neck. Breast feathers tend to be reddish-brown. They all have crests ranging from this rather subtle one ones that stand straight up and spread out wider than their heads.

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This one is unique in that she's a medium gray with reddish feathers on her head & breast.

Two of the birds are varying shades of light gray. They're somewhat shyer (at least when I take the camera o out). You can see one slinking away behind the 2nd guinea in the top picture. Here's a better picture at 7 weeks old:
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I'm thinking they're some sort of olive egger mixed from a legbar and ?

Next up I have three birds that are black & speckled white. All have leg & foot feathers, while two also have developed what looks like either a neck ruff or a beard.
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9 weeks old. I'm thinking an olive egger based on a cuckoo maran or a straight cuckoo maran?

Next up is this lovely black & silver bird. Somewhat camera shy. From the pictures I've seen I'm definitely going with olive egger on this one. I'd love to figure out the exact strain because it's a gorgeous bird.

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Last is the most difficult to get pictures of. Not because she's shy (the friendliest bird in the flock, in fact), but because she's constantly moving and REALLY fast.

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She's the one on the left at 5 and half weeks old. She's not got much in the way of tail feathers. I'm thinking black copper maran.


And, for no reason at all, here's a picture of chicks & keets at 6-1/2 weeks old about to scare the hell out of the cat.
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Next up I have three birds that are black & speckled white. All have leg & foot feathers, while two also have developed what looks like either a neck ruff or a beard.
That's a beard.
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9 weeks old. I'm thinking an olive egger based on a cuckoo maran or a straight cuckoo maran?
Probably an Olive Egger, or possibly an Easter Egger. Yes, they could be Marans-mixes.
Marans do not have beards, so the ones with beards are definitely not pure Marans.
 
Probably an Olive Egger, or possibly an Easter Egger. Yes, they could be Marans-mixes.
Marans do not have beards, so the ones with beards are definitely not pure Marans.
I'm not even sure the beardless one is a pure Maran, either. I suspect all but the "partridge" colored birds are hybrids, it's just fun to speculate what their origins are as they develop.

As this one gets older (this is from about a week later), I'm starting to lean easter egger. She's getting more orange / gold feathers along her neck & breast:
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