what are these 8wk hens and 12wk cockeral?

[dallandrafae]

I need your help to help identify the breeds of these lovely additions to my family. first is the cockeral.

Then we have jasmine:

Then Tufty:

And finaly Blossom:

so what are my birds? anyone any ideas?

 

[arcatamarcia]

Tuffy and Jasmine are Easter Eggers. I'm don't know about the others.

 

[dallandrafae]

what are easter eggers?

 

[Flip-N-Flogging]

I would guess ee, ee, tophat/ee? And some sort of columbian rock mix?

 

[debid]

Are you in the US?

They all look like mixes with some Ameraucana or Arucana in the lineage (that's what we call an Easter Egger -- a mixed breed bird likely to carry a blue egg gene).

I think the first one must be part Orpington by the body shape.

 

[dallandrafae]

I'm in Glencoe in scotland. any sugestions are helpful.

 

[debid]

Ah, the standards are different there and that explains the tufted heads. Perhaps someone with more knowledge about birds across the pond will weigh in...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Even though you are in the UK, I do not think those birds are in any sense pure for a breed. Note that none really look quite like any of the others. Tufty has dark skin like a silkie mix, some have crests and others do not, most have mufs & beards, but Tufty does not, there are at least two different types of combs, slate legs on the cockeral & Tufty, others have yellow legs, at least tyo quite different body types, ...

I don't see any that yell "ORPINGTON!" at me, but it is possible that there is some orpington blood in the mix.