Rooster breeds

[Chargermike14]

Help!!

we have 3 roosters and do not know what breeds they are. we bought some assorted chicks that included Prairie Bluebell Eggers, Welsummer, Barred Rock and Ameraucana. Barred Rock are obvious so no picture of him. Now we are wanting to start hatching and not sure what rooster to put with the hens to keep the egg colors the same. And of course, none of the roosters look like the roosters the hatchery had posted when ordering.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

The first two appear to be some sort of cross, maybe easter eggers. Can you get better pics, closer perhaps?

 

[Chargermike14]

Better pictures with the sun out

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I would definitely say the bottom two are EE or EE crosses. My old rooster looked just like the bottom one

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Ok, the two reddish ones are easter eggers, and the first one looks like a birchin marans. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Ok, the two reddish ones are easter eggers, and the first one looks like a birchin marans. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.

He's built like the Maran roosters I see

 

[Chargermike14]

Thank you,
Looking up pictures, it could be a Maran. So if we put the Maran with the Barred Rock hens, their chicks should have darker eggs than a barred rock roo and hen would correct?

and the EE roo can be with all of our color laying hens and maintain the colors with their chicks?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

If I remember correctly, I think technically the male decides the color eggs his offspring will lay. Like male goats and sheep with milk taste. But my rooster 'laid' green eggs and one of his daughter wound up with brown eggs, soo....

 

[Chargermike14]

When we first bought chickens, we were told that the rooster didn’t matter. If the mom laid green eggs her kids would to ect. Same thing happened, our green egg laying hens little ones all lay tan eggs from the roo in the picture that looks like a Maran.