Step right up, Guess the Barnyard Mix parentage, win a prize! Help?

[mvktr2]

Interesting incubation this was. Hit 106 twice, 108 and 110 once each. Started to throw the eggs away a couple of times but figured I'd see what was gonna happen. ALL 12 HATCHED, including 1 - 2 days after the others! LOCAL EGGS ROCK!!!!

Anyway these were free local eggs from a neighbor, 6 blue/green & 6 brown eggs. Known breeds in his flock.
Australorp
Buff Orpington
Dominecker (sp)
Americauna
Mostly mixed breed roosters (very beautiful including some with Game blood in them) with a couple of pure bread Dominecker and/or Cuckoo Marans and/or Barred Rocks. There are NO Aricauna/Americauna Roos in the flock.
Otherwise unknown origins on hens & roos with possible black star & no RIRs.

Please let me know if you recognize the breed of any of these chicks or can guess as to possible heritage. Any sexing thoughts would be appreciated also though I'm guessing useless on mixed breedings like this.

Thanks & Schlante,
Phillip

Ps whatever they are I think they're quite colorful and will look good in the monotoned flock I currently have!

Chick #1 - Cinnamon face, cinamon tones on body, grey body yellow legs
Egg color Unknown - Either Brown or Easter Egger

Chick #2 - Black with cinnamon face, white spot on top of head, & brown/yellow legs yellow/orange beak
Egg color unknown - suspected Brown
Isn't the white spot on head indicative of certain breeds, Australorp?

Chick #3 - Black with white spot on top of head, yellow/brown/grey legs, dark beak
Egg Color unknown - suspected Brown
Isn't the white spot on head indicative of certain breeds, Australorp?

Chick #4 - Yellow body with mohawk marking on back of head plus yellow legs. Otherwise unmarked
Egg Color - Brown Thoughts I'm guessing he's just mixed parentage perhaps a Buff Orp mom & game influenced dad

 

[mvktr2]

Chick #5 - Obvious Americauna influence Yellow legs & Easter Egger stripes with yellow fluff elsewhere
Egg Color - Blue/Green

Chick 6 pic 1

Chick #6 pic 2 - Very Cinnamon with dark patch on back and grey with grey/yellow legs yellowish beak
Egg Color - Unknown - Brown or Easter Egger

Chick #7 - Dark Grey/Black with cinnamon face and cinnamon/brown legs dark beak
Egg Color - Unknown - Brown or Easter Egger

Chick #8 - Grey, solid grey with yellow grey legs and yellow black beak
Egg Color - Unknown - Brown or Easter Egger
This one is a total mystery!

 

[mvktr2]

Chick #9 - Reddish yellow chick, more so than RIR chick I've hatched in the past, with yellow feet & Beak
Egg Color - Brown
I'm guessing this is a heavy Buff Orpington influence

Chick #10 Pic 1

Chick #10 Pic 2 - Easter Egger influenced sourced from a Blue/Green egg. yellow down with stripes, yellow beak & feet
Egg Color - Blue Green

Chick #11 Pic 1

Chick #11 Pic 2 - Super Cinnamon colored with tons of it all over including face with dark patch on back otherwise dark brown/grey tones prevail with dark yellow/orangish beak and legs
Egg Color - unknown suspected brown This and the Grey are the most interesting chicks.

Chick #12 - Dark Brown and mostly black coloring with brown/yellow leggs with yellow reddish brown beak
Egg Color - Blue Green comes from Americauna, but very different from the greyish blue Americauna hens (no Americauna roos in the flock)

 

[write2caroline]

Could they be pure bred Heinz 57's??

57 varieties of possibilities?

Do I win??????

lol
Caroline

 

[lovinlife]

I agree. They're too much of a mix to really determine an exact breed. None of them would be pure breds (except maybe if you just happened to have the Dom roo and the Dom hen get together).

It'll be interesting to watch them grow up and change into beautiful birds.

 

[OSUman]

the one that is solid black with a white dot on its head might be the Pure barred

 

[speckledhen]

You have a bunch of EE and or Dom crosses--look at all the flat combs! Now, a Dom has a rose comb (if by "dominecker", you mean a real Dominique and not a BR or BR cross like some folks do) and an EE has a pea comb (usually). I'm saying EE since true Ameraucanas are not common, and if they're hatchery birds, definite EEs.

There are no pure Barred Rocks or Dominiques in that batch. Look at the combs, not the colors of the chicks. They may have to get larger to know if they are pea combs or rose combs, they're too small now.

Honestly, you can't find out the exact crosses of those till they're older, and even then, maybe not. Heinz 57 all the way.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I'm not even going to guess- just wanted to say congrats on the cute babies! Amazing they hatched with those temps!

 

[mvktr2]

I realize there's probably not a pure-bred one in the bunch. However I'm not sure of what all is in the parent flock, I by no means provided a complete list. As for the 'barred' styled roos he told me what he had 2 of the 3 I listed above, just can't remember which ones, probably rocks & marans. I was just wondering what traits yall might identify in the various chicks which might hint at possible parentage. For example the white dot on the head as referenced by OSUman. 4 or maybe even 5 have a wht/light colored dot on the head. One thing's for sure those were some tough eggs!

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I was amazed with the number of brown/grey/odd colored legs. I only saw a few of his stock while visiting with him in the side yard while they were free ranging. Others he just mentioned having as we spoke. No matter I'll be happy if they produce eggs and I get a setting hen or 2.

Off to look at chick pics at the henderson chicken page!

Schlante,
Phillip

 

[speckledhen]

All Barred Rocks, Cuckoo Marans and Dominiques have the head spot, however, so do the black sexlink males (RIR x Barred Rock or sometimes RIR x Cuckoo Marans or Dom)