Rhode Island Red?

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Okay, these are 2 different chicks. The first 3 pictures are of one (subject of this thread) and the next 5 are of the other. The last one is the 2 together. All the darker chicks that might be in the pictures are blue orpingtons. So what are these 2?! I thought the more yellow tone one is a buckeye. But maybe not?
 

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Hmmm, I don’t know. Chicks are pretty hard to identify. Do you have an invoice or something of what you ordered? That might help you!

Is this one a Lavender Orpington?
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Hmmm, I don’t know. Chicks are pretty hard to identify. Do you have an invoice or something of what you ordered? That might help you!

Is this one a Lavender Orpington?
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It's a blue (BBS) Orpington. Supposed to be, at least. I ordered 4 BBS Orpingtons one male and 3 females, and I lost the one. But I have no clue if that one was the male or not. Time will tell. Then these other 2 are my freebies, one is supposed to be male, the other female. But they don't tell you which breeds they are or even really the possibilities. Or which is the male/female. They just pick from whatever was left after orders were filled that day.
 
RIR is a solid guess, I also got the Meyer free chicks (meal maker and homestead helper cockerel) and my meal maker was an EE pullet while the cockerel was the same breed as yours. Super cute with their white wings and red backs. They sent the same breed last year as well. I raised both the cockerels up and ended up processing them, I had other better behaved and better looking cockerels to pick from. Assuming both of mine were RIRs based on adult color, and their bright yellow legs. Also their decent growth and weight after processing.

The one from last year, processed and plucked at 19ish weeks he was 4lbs.
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And what he turned into
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This year's, apparently I didn't get any more photos of this one before processing it at ~13 weeks, the carcass was a tad under 3lbs. I remember this one being a jerk.
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And the buckeye pullet I also got this year. Note the pea comb, if your mystery lighter chick has a pea comb then likely a buckeye, if a single comb then likely a RIR or similar production red breed.
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RIR is a solid guess, I also got the Meyer free chicks (meal maker and homestead helper cockerel) and my meal maker was an EE pullet while the cockerel was the same breed as yours. Super cute with their white wings and red backs. They sent the same breed last year as well. I raised both the cockerels up and ended up processing them, I had other better behaved and better looking cockerels to pick from. Assuming both of mine were RIRs based on adult color, and their bright yellow legs. Also their decent growth and weight after processing.

The one from last year, processed and plucked at 19ish weeks he was 4lbs.
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And what he turned into
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This year's, apparently I didn't get any more photos of this one before processing it at ~13 weeks, the carcass was a tad under 3lbs. I remember this one being a jerk.
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And the buckeye pullet I also got this year. Note the pea comb, if your mystery lighter chick has a pea comb then likely a buckeye, if a single comb then likely a RIR or similar production red breed.
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You are a lifesaver, lol. Thank you! I'm not sure if the one has a pea comb, that's actually why I'm second-guessing myself about it being a buckeye. I have 2 buff brahma bantams, and I wasn't great at knowing they had pea combs at first either. These are the best pictures of its comb I've currently got.
 

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You are a lifesaver, lol. Thank you! I'm not sure if the one has a pea comb, that's actually why I'm second-guessing myself about it being a buckeye. I have 2 buff brahma bantams, and I wasn't great at knowing they had pea combs at first either. These are the best pictures of its comb I've currently got.
Looks more like a single comb to me so probably one of the production red types. Time will tell.
 

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