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Need help with identifying colors!

dracquailys

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So I ordered some eggs that were a mixed batch. Can anyone give me some guesses on the colorations? All in fun:)

The possible colors:
- Fawns
- Blues
- Pearls
- Fees
- Blue fawn (separating this in particular because this was the focus of the batch)
- Italian speckled

P.S. I promise I’m not squeezing the last one LOL, just was extra squirmy so the photo had to be split up <3

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This grew into a fawn blue tuxedo (thieving otter farms has a nice pic in their website sans the tuxedo), but could be a homozygous blue as well (white bird).

Your charcoal striped yellows will probably be blue something.

Light yellow chicks tend to carry the fee gene (pearls, falb fee).

If you have some red stripes it could be a rue carrier.

The dark brown stripy chicks are probably pharoah.
 
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This one puzzled me exceedingly, notice the grey/charcoal stripes, not black. Grew up to be this guy:

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Which I think is blue over Rosetta. I don’t have any blue pharoah so can’t comment there. Here’s the adult if that yellow chick, another puzzle!

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Blue fawn tuxedo is my best guess. Half the fun is guessing the colors then crossing them to see what you get! Enjoy!
 
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And just for fun 2 pharoah chicks, the top is normal, the bottom is falb fee (wild plus fee gene). The bottom one is lighter and has less overall color (more gray tones), pretty subtle but you can still tell this young!
 
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And just for fun 2 pharoah chicks, the top is normal, the bottom is falb fee (wild plus fee gene). The bottom one is lighter and has less overall color (more gray tones), pretty subtle but you can still tell this young!

Thank you so much for all the help and input! Your falb fee looks a lot like the third baby (I accidentally double-posted the pic haha), I've always wanted one so crossing my fingers! I'm thinking the first one might be a blue fawn. The second maybe pearl fee? Fourth could be some sort of blue pharaoh or Italian speckled, and the fifth, although you can't see too well, has noticeably more ginger/reds present than the third and even has a dorsal stripe of it so I'm a little stumped there.

I'll do an update when they're more feathered to so everyone can see what they ended up being!
 
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