The Five"Buff Orpington Hens" of Mystery

baseballpajamas

Hatching
10 Years
Aug 9, 2009
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Hi, a Newbie here. Can folks help with breed and sex of our mystery birds?

We're a little baffled by the five "Buff Orpington hens" we received as hatchlings in mid-May.

What we seem to have is: One definite buff orp hen, with minimal comb and wattle. One possible buff orp hen, with red comb and wattle. Three other birds, much redder, with green-black tail feathers...New Hampshires? One of these cock-a-doodles every morning, but are all the red ones roos, or maybe just the one that crows?

Pictures taken with flash, so color a little inexact.....

Group picture of all five "Buff Orpingtons":
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(or view here with notations)

Bird 1:
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Bird 2 (buff with minimal comb and wattle):
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Bird 3:
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Bird 4 (buff, with red comb and wattle):
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Bird 5 (sorry it's not standing):
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#2 is a pullet, the rest are cockerals. I would guess New Hampshires, but I have never had them so I'm not certain.
 
The 3 darker ones and one light are boys. Other light is girl.I think dark ones are B uff Orpington mixed with RIR-legs are white.
 
Yes, you have 1 pullet and the rest are roos. The buff colored pullet & roo look like buff orpingtons - the other three are either RIR, production reds, or new hampshires - you can ask the place you bought them from as to which of these 3 breeds they carry.
 
The darker birds are Roosters. I don't know what breed they are because those birds have white legs and RIR, production red, and new hampshire all should have yellow legs and a Buff Orpington rooster wouldn't be that dark.
They might be a Orpington Cross.

Chris
 

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