Mixed babies from my Blue Leghorn Mumma

[ChelsAndBabies]

Hello all First time posting and incredibly anxious to do so but here we are! Heads up, long post

My naughty miss Rebel was going across the road into the grass to "forage" and had unknowingly started a big nest that I found as she started to try and sit overnight so I found and moved them and her to our baby house. She has hatched these beautiful 16 babies and now we have the dilemma of working out who's fathered the majority and if they are all her eggs or potentially some from the neighbour's chickens.
Some babies have come out masked, some black, some orange with patterned wings, some yellow-white with patterned wings and feathered legged & footed and all beautiful

We have a mixed flock (Isas, Australorps, Sussexes, Rhode Island Reds, Leghorns and a few others as well as bantam versions of several) and the roosters in the area are a Pile Leghorn, Rhode Island Red, and the neighbours two are mysteries (she said she isn't sure and that she just got Frizzles and some bantams-breeds not specified and her flocks are mostly from them).

These babies were born on Sunday the 8th and Monday the 9th of September (2 weeks old now) for age reference.

If anyone can help with an idea of breed or genders yet it would be greatly appreciated

 

[JedJackson]

That's very unusual for a Leghorn to sit and hatch out eggs! Looking closer at her, I doubt she actually is a Leghorn, because her legs are white, not yellow. But that's another matter.

If the eggs were all hers then she was definitely getting around, as they say. But I think the eggs probably came from a few different hens, unless they all looked the same.

All the feather legged chicks will have at least one feather legged parent.

Any with those pale dots on the back of the head have at least one barred or cuckoo parent, and will themselves be barred or cuckoo, which is mostly the same thing.

I see a few red or tan ones without feathered legs that probably have a Rhode Island red parent.

Two or three look quite small and could be part or full bantams.

I think you're just going to have to wait and see how they turn out. It's likely that you'll never know the exact parentage, especially since the make up of the neighbor's flock is unknown.

 

[LaFleche]

Congratulations on this cute surprise!

I agree with @JedJackson and think you will just have to wait a few more weeks as they are much too young to start educated guesses.

 

[The Chickens' Maid]

Aww, she looks so proud of herself please keep us updated as they grow!

 

[Chubbicthe2nd]

Wow they're cute