What Breeds Do You See?

[kees]

What standard-sized pullets do you see? The bantams are 2 blue silkies from My Pet Chicken. The other 4 are the Very Rare Surprise Me(s).

 

[rural mouse]

Easier to say what I do NOT see:

Ayam ceyami
Black copper marans
Chocolate orpington
Double laced barnevelder
Silkied anything (beyond the 2 mentioned)
Golden Cuckoo marans
Frizzled anything
Olive egger (maybe...depends upon what they use to breed them)

That leaves:

BBS orpington (brown/tan eggs)
Blue splash Marans (dark brown eggs)
Lavender dream EE (blue/green eggs)

The black one likely an orpington, the light one either the EE or a splash marans or orp (if splash, should have black/blue spots like ink smudged fingerprints, can be only 1 or 2 feathers).

It's possible I missed some identification points. Pretty sure on what they're NOT. May have to wait for eggs to know for certain.

 

[kees]

I’ve added photos of each pullet as I’d like assistance in figuring out which specific bird is which breed. Thanks in advance!

 

[rural mouse]

It appears that the upper left is silkied, so the blue silkied bantam makes sense. I'm seeing feathered feet on the lower right black one, but it's blurred there, so hard to tell. If she does have feathered feet, then Marans is likely.

The light one in the upper right has white skin/feet so either marans or orpington are likely. I know nothing about the lavender EE, so can't eliminate that one. The darker head feathers do fit a splash bird (the marans and orps).

The blue in the bottom right...looks like has white feet (check soles with the dark wash legs), so again either orp or marans.

The challenge with the marans is they can be either feather footed or clean legged. You could look into their specific breeding lines to see if there are more specific characteristics or see if they talk about differences between breeds.

At this point, the simplest options: check the website for each breed specifically yourself (you have the birds and can go look at them for specific characteristics) or wait for them to lay eggs. Shell color will go a long way toward figuring it out. Marans lay DARK brown eggs. Orpingtons lay brown/tan eggs.