Please identify my 4 new chicks

gumamelachick

In the Brooder
9 Years
Mar 5, 2010
37
4
24
East Bay
So I went to my feed store for chick crumbles and dog food and ended up with 4 new chicks. I already have 5 four week olds I just moved to the coop, and the brooder box they were in looked soooooo empty.

The guy at the store didn't know what breeds they had ordered
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but he said that they were likely 85% female. He orders from Belt Hatchery, so they could be:
Standards (Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire Red, Barred Rock, White Leghorn, Black Sex-Link, Golden Sex-Link),
Heavy Breeds (Black Australorp, Buff Orpington, Golden Laced Wyandotte, Silver Laced Wyandotte),
and I doubt they ordered any of the "Specialty Breeds" like Easter Eggers, Delawares, Danish Brown Leghorn, Jersey Black Giant, Light Brahma, Welsummer, or Cuckoo Maran, but it's on their order list so I'm throwing it out there.

My others have grown so fast I don't remember them being this small. The all yellow chick looks a little bigger than the others. How big are bantam chicks? Noticably larger? Also, are any of these roosters? I'm new to all of this so I'm not good at sexing, but I know some breeds can be sexed according to markings or leg color when this young.

#1 Here's the big yellow one, and a couple of pics of yellow chick with another chick for size comparison
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#2 White with black/grey on wings
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#3 the chipmunk
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#4 Black one with a white spot on it's head
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Everyone here seems so wise... and definitely helpful. Any insight would be greatly appreciated by this newbie. Thanks!
 
Black one with white dot - Barred Rock

Yellow ones - Possibly Buff Orpingtons

Chipmunk one - Probably a brown leghorn or something?

Splashy one - Not sure yet.
 
#1 possibly a white rock?

#2 looks like a buff

#3 Rhode Island Red/New Hampshire Red or Red sex link (I just had some hatch that looked exactly like this - rooster is RIR and hens are RIR/New Hampshire Red

#4 I'm thinking Australorp
 
I ended up with a Cornish X from TSC. I initially thought it was a leghorn, but nope he's a little 'meatball' CX!!! just a warning!!!

1- ^? he seems big!!!
2-?
3-first thought was EE or welsummer. (new2chooks- maybe hers is a Wel. Roo?!) what type of comb does it have?
4-BR (or looks like my cuckoo marans too!! BR- adult leg color is yellow)
 
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Could be. Here's my rooster, Moose, when he was a chick. He's on the left, next to the BR cockeral. The 2 on the right are my pullets.
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And when he started to feather in:
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#3 possible speckled sussex? i have a couple in the brooder that look similar to the "chipmunk" they're either sussex or welsummers.
my similar "chipmunk"
 

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