Newbie...help please!!

[bumpercarr]

I had a few chickens that I inherited a few years ago and didn't replace them as they died off. About two weeks ago, I bought 7 chickens (6 hens, 1 rooster) from the FFA kid that won Grand Champion at the county fair. The problem is, I think one of the "hens" is a roo and I can't identify the breed/mix of one of them. All of them are about 4 months old. Can anyone help? Here are some pictures.

Suspected roo:



Better shot of his/her saddle area:




This is a picture of the one that I know is a roo. Both of them were hatched at about the same time in April. This roo is about 2 inches taller than the one I suspect is a roo.




The one I can't identify has 5 toes, so I suspect some sort of Silkie mix. It also has feathers on it's feet and is probably a bantam.



I haven't gotten any eggs yet, I think it will be another few weeks before I can get any. I also have two RIRs and a supposedly Barred Rock that looks more cuckoo than barred. Anyway, any help is appreciated. I think they are pretty, but the second roo will have to go as I don't have enough hens to keep two roos happy

 

[willowbranchfarm]

Yes the top one is a rooster and bottom one hen.

 

[hdowden]

top is a cockerel and the bottom looks like a cochin and dorkin barred mix pullet

 

[bumpercarr]

I don't think the lady that hatched this chick had any Dorkings, she did have both Cochins and Silkies though. I went to her place to look at her chickens (sadly) first, but wouldn't buy any because her place was filthy with feed bags all over the place and no rhyme or reason to her pens...about 1/2 of her chickens were running loose while the other 1/2 were penned up. I don't see how she would have any clue who had bred with who. All looked very bad, like they had lice or fleas. Turns out the young man I bought these from picked up some chicks from her this spring and this young lady is one of them. She's much lighter than the two Marans roosters (I call them Marans because I don't know what else to call them, I realize that the yellow legs makes them something else) and also lighter than the "barred" rock hen. I would almost call her color a lavender from what I've seen in pictures and have read, she's really pretty but is at the bottom of the pecking order which makes her a little bit flighty. She's also the smallest of the bunch. I'm hoping for a broody hen, and if this one is either silkie or dorking, she should be broody.

 

[BlueCamas]

YOu have a Black sex-link cockerel and a mixed pullet.

 

[ramirezframing]

she looks like a silkie araucana mix that I have. except mine has a little crest and no tail and 4 toes, but has the white legs and red face and the same feather pattern

 

[bumpercarr]

I took the rooster back and traded him in for two sex-linked pullets. The unidentified hen can be either americauna, silkie, cochin, marans or game mixed in some way. That is basically what the chicken lady (as we call her) had in her flock. Nice to know that the rooster is probably a sex-linked. I will need to spend some time investigating what sex-linked will do for me.