PLEASE HELP ME... What do I have?? Ordered "Rainbow Layers".

[zebandamber04]

We ordered the "rainbow layer" collection from McMurray hatchery. Now we want to know what we have... Do you have any idea?? Make your best guess!!

Image #1 Group shot. What's the black one without white on it's face? What's the pure black one with redish tint in the wings?

Image #2 Silver color with a yellow head.

Image #3 Mostly black with a little white underneath.

Image #4 Black chick with redish tint.

Image #5 Brown chick... this one has stumped me. It could be so many things... I think...

Image #6 Redish brown

Image #7 Redish brown

 

[Mahonri]

#2- SSH
#4- Partridge Rock?
#5 You've got a speckled sussex or welsummer or LBLH.

 

[jossanne]

OK, I'll take a couple of guesses.

#2: silver-spangled hamburg for sure
#3: australorp or black minorca
#4: maybe a black star? never had one before, so I'm not sure
#5: looks a lot like my brown leghorns
#6 and #7: rhode island reds

 

[Fresh Eggs]

4 IS a Black Star!!! I had some of those from mm and they looked like that!!!!

 

[zebandamber04]

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What is SLW??

 

[zebandamber04]

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I thought Rhode Island Red's would be more Red....

 

[jossanne]

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What is SLW??

silver-laced wyandotte. that's not what it is, though. it's a silver-spangled hamburg. looks exactly like all the mmh hamburgs i've had.

 

[zebandamber04]

Anybody else have any guesses??

 

[jossanne]

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I thought Rhode Island Red's would be more Red....

McMurray's Rhode Island Reds are a production variety of red, so they're not as dark mahogany as breeder RIR's. Yours look just like the RIR's I got from McMurray last July.

 

[Mahonri]

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What is SLW??

silver-laced wyandotte. that's not what it is, though. it's a silver-spangled hamburg. looks exactly like all the mmh hamburgs i've had.

Yes, you are correct.