What color? Polish and maybe some mix

abrownrigg

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We have 1 Polish rooster, 3 Polish hens, 2 silkie roosters and 1 barred rock hen. (Pics below.) All raised together and so far the roosters have been good with each other so we've kept them all. They are my kids pets that they wanted be surprised with their mixes but I think most are simply Polish. (Not for show or selling.)

By looking at the egg size I don't think any of them were from the barred rock but then again the polish eggs have been increasing in size for a while. None of them have feathered legs. The two dark chicks have darker legs but their skin is light, not silkie colored. All hatched either white or yellow except the two black ones. The one black seems to be getting gold lacing like the hen who was broody. Sorry that pics aren't great. I had two toddlers in the coop with me and mama hen kept trying to climb on me or peck my phone. There are 9 chicks total but some are pictured a few times.

Also, anyone have picks of crosses between polish, silkies and barred rocks (any combo)?
 

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Any silkie cross chicks could have feathered legs and extra toes. That being said I think Egg Sheeran is Dad to the babies.
Chicks from phantom would be sex link I believe so boys would be barred and girls black with leakage like the bigger chick in pic 5. And would have hatched from a brown egg.
I believe polish lay white so if you knew what your broody was sitting on we may have a answer to a few
 
Any silkie cross chicks could have feathered legs and extra toes. That being said I think Egg Sheeran is Dad to the babies.
Chicks from phantom would be sex link I believe so boys would be barred and girls black with leakage like the bigger chick in pic 5. And would have hatched from a brown egg.
I believe polish lay white so if you knew what your broody was sitting on we may have a answer to a few


Thanks! I've found they've been a mix of cream and light brown eggs. Phantoms were bigger at one point so easier to tell which ones were hers. Here is a pic of the eggs with first three the day after they hatched.
 

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I love EGG SHARON great name!!!:):)
My 13 year old named him. She even made a comment on one of his music videos on YouTube about him so now I keep getting random responses emailed to me. (My kids have their own emails but all of them forward to me.) He started out as the little tiny runt we didn't think would make it but has turned into a fantastic rooster. He even comes running and crowing for me at the window or when I'm outside if the others are getting into trouble.
 
Got much better pics while the kids were sleeping. All have 4 toes and no leg feathers. All but the two dark ones (B & C) had yellow legs when hatched but I can start seeing them turn more of a slate color. Chick B with some coloring has lighter legs than C who still all black. They all hatched between March 28 and April 8. (Note the picture with the whites, F, G, H, and I, has one chick missing but I couldn't track who was who so didn't take add another picture.)
 

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