Jersey Giants? Barred Rock? I'm not sure on a couple. Pullets or Roos?

Sparklesms

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I ordered 5 straight run Black Jersey Giants from the local feed store, which ordered from Welp, I believe they said. Got them on May 21, so they're just over 4 weeks old.
They all looked pretty much the same when we got them, but as they got their feathers in, one started looking much different. It's comb was much larger and redder, and it started getting grayish bars on the black feathers. I'm thinking barred rock, but the bars are kinda faint and not like most of the pics I'm finding, especially not a roo which I'm thinking it is because of how early it's comb developed. It also has yellow eyes and yellow legs, and it's bigger than the others.

The others I'm not positive about either.
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Possible Barred Rock roo.


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Not sure, looks funny around the eyes. And has white on the tips of some feathers.


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Roo? Hopefully JG?


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JG pullets?
 
Bird 1: Dominique cockerel?
Bird 2: Australorp pullet?
Rest of birds I’ll go with your assessment. I’m no expert though. I’m just throwing out a guess.
 
1 and 3 look like cockerels to me.

As far as breed goes, I cant figure out what 1 is. Usually in barred chickens, the males are lighter, so I have no idea. It can’t be a Dominique, because the comb is wrong.

For the black chickens, you can look at the bottoms of their feet. I copied and pasted this from google:

The legs of Australorp chicken are black, the bottoms being pinkish-white. But the legs of Jersey Giant chicken are black, and the bottoms of their feet is yellow.
 
Hmmmm so then what are my 2 black birds? I thought both were australorp but maybe I have 1 australorp and 1 Jersey giant?
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1 and 3 look like cockerels to me.

For the black chickens, you can look at the bottoms of their feet. I copied and pasted this from google:

The legs of Australorp chicken are black, the bottoms being pinkish-white. But the legs of Jersey Giant chicken are black, and the bottoms of their feet is yellow.

They all have yellow feet, so hopefully I'm good that way!
 

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