What Breeds do you think I have here? 3.5 weeks old hatched from a barnyard mix

[Owlalwaysbeme]

 

[nuthatched]

Mixes.

 

[Owlalwaysbeme]

Mixes.

I understand they could be mixed but with what?

 

[ShrekDawg]

I understand they could be mixed but with what?

There’s really no way of telling. They’re likely mixes of mixes. And chicken genetics are complicated. I had chicks that came out looking nothing like the parents. Barring when neither parent or grandparents were barred, etc. It’s complicated. If you know what breeds they had there we can MAYBE guess but even then it’s just a guess.

 

[NatJ]

I understand they could be mixed but with what?

Do you have any information at all? What breeds are in pen where the eggs were collected? What color the eggs were?

Given the amount of black feathers and dark skin, they could have some ayam Cemani in them. Or Svarthöna, which is also called "Swedish Black."

But they could just as easily by multi-generation mixes with Silkie a few generations back to account for the dark skin, and some kind of black chicken more recently to account for the feather color.

The ones that are mostly white are genetically about the same as the others, plus one gene that turns black feathers into white (commonly found in some white chickens, and in chickens that are red with a white tail like Gold Comets or Isa Browns.)

 

[Owlalwaysbeme]

Do you have any information at all? What breeds are in pen where the eggs were collected? What color the eggs were?

Given the amount of black feathers and dark skin, they could have some ayam Cemani in them. Or Svarthöna, which is also called "Swedish Black."

But they could just as easily by multi-generation mixes with Silkie a few generations back to account for the dark skin, and some kind of black chicken more recently to account for the feather color.

The ones that are mostly white are genetically about the same as the others, plus one gene that turns black feathers into white (commonly found in some white chickens, and in chickens that are red with a white tail like Gold Comets or Isa Browns.)

They were all hatched from light and dark brown eggs with the exception of one that was from green egg. The only two breeds that were listed were Australorps and Marans but then the remainder of the description said, several other breeds pure and mixed. So unfortunately, don’t know what the remaining breeds are just trying to come up with the best guess on what they could possibly be mixed

 

[NatJ]

They were all hatched from light and dark brown eggs with the exception of one that was from green egg. The only two breeds that were listed were Australorps and Marans but then the remainder of the description said, several other breeds pure and mixed. So unfortunately, don’t know what the remaining breeds are just trying to come up with the best guess on what they could possibly be mixed

In that case, the Australorps or the Marans could account for the black feathers. The dark faces and combs do sometimes happen in mixes with breeds that have black feathers.

if they continue to have very dark skin (including face) when they grow up, then probably a bit of Silkie or Ayam Cemani or Svarthöna or Mystic Onyx or something of the sort. But if the faces get red when they grow up, then it's just an oddity that happens sometimes when they are young.

If they actually were mixed with Ayam Cemani, I expect the listing would say that, because those were very expensive a few years ago, so the seller would probably expect it to attract attention even in a mix now. So even though the chicks look like they could easily be Ayam Cemani mixes, I would tentatively rule that one out just because of the seller not mentioning it.