Trying to figure out breed of these 2 week old chicks?

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It may be easier to figure out when they get older.

This site has pictures of many chicks breeds, so it might help:
https://hoovershatchery.com/id-my-chick.html
(Of course, there exist some breeds that they don't have, but it can be a starting point.)

A few details that you can compare with breed descriptions:
One has a rose comb (first picture, left side).
Two have single combs (first picture, front chick and rightmost chick).
Those three have clean legs (no feathers on the feet and lower legs).
I think their legs and feet are yellow, perhaps white, certainly not green, blue, or black.

The fourth chick has feathered feet, and dark skin (blue or black legs, I'm not quite sure which). I'm not sure of the comb type.

None of them are Silkies, Frizzles, Polish, or Naked Necks (aka Turkens).
 
I've figured out that the bantam with feathered feet has blue feet. What breed might it be? Blue Cochin?
 
I've figured out that the bantam with feathered feet has blue feet. What breed might it be? Blue Cochin?

Probably not. Google images of blue cochins: they are a grayish-blue color all over, with darker laced edges on the feathers. (They're also "supposed" to have yellow feet, although wrong-color feet can occasionally happen in any chicken breed.)

If you post more photos every few weeks as they grow, eventually someone will say "I know what that is!"

At this age, chicks of some breeds look a lot alike.

What country are you in? Different chicken breeds are common in different countries.
 
The two with more brown might be a Speckled Sussex (has a dark marking on the head) and a Sexlink (has a yellow head). Sexlinks come with many different names: Gold Sexlink, Brown Sexlink, Red Sexlink, Gold Commet, Red Star, ISA Brown, and more. (The one kind of sexlink that chick cannot be, is a Black Sexlink.)

[I could easily be wrong on these, but they are common breeds, so fairly likely.]

I'm pretty sure the one chick has a rose comb (wider and flatter than the single comb that the other large chicks have), but I'm having trouble coming up with a breed/color combination. Wyandottes are common and have rose combs, but I don't think that chick is the right color for any of them. Brown Leghorn sometimes comes with a rose comb, but I think your chick is more gray than a Brown Leghorn should be.

The one with feathered feet, I keep thinking either d'Uccle or Cochin, but then I get stuck on the color--I'm not finding any color, for either one, that I think looks right. And both are "supposed to" have yellow legs. (D'Uccle would have muffs/beard, which is feathers on the side of the face. I can't tell for sure, but it looks like it might have those.)

I would guess Easter Egger, except that they almost never have feathered feet. Easter Egger just means any chicken that lays blue or green eggs, that doesn't fit any established breed standard. They're sold under various names--like "Araucana" or "Ameraucana," even though they really aren't--and often have a color similar to that chick. They even have dark legs a lot of the time. But feathered feet on an Easter Egger is quite rare--not impossible, but unlikely.

Looking through various online hatcheries can sometimes help--they often have photos of many different breeds as chicks, and usually list details like "feathered feet" or "rose comb." Each hatchery has a slightly different selection of breeds, so if you know which hatchery they came from, you would have a better chance of figuring them out. But most hatcheries have the same common breeds, with a varied selection of rare ones.
 

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