What did Meyers send me? Rare breed assortment

The silver ones with feathered feet are probably splash Marans, as the blue copper Marans should come with leg bands. The one on the right in the photo of the two clean legged yellow ones looks like a splash Ameraucana. I was thinking lavender, but those should be banded. I don't think the one on the left is the same breed, I don't see any muffs on that one. That one could be a lavender Orpington. The two yellow and black splotched ones look mottled, but the only mottled breed they could be is Exchequer Leghorn, and I think they're too dark for that. The one who didn't want its picture taken looks like a Light Brahma, which isn't in the assortment, but could be one of the free chicks.

At this point it's basically a guessing game 😂 The other ones you're gonna have to wait until they start getting more adult feathers. Their combs will also be a good indicator, though I think most of them have single combs, which won't help that much. All the other feather footed ones have to be Brahma, Cochin, or Marans, which will narrow it down a bit. None are Polish, as they don't have the little top hats.

Please update when they start getting more feathers, I'd love to see what they turn out to be!
 
The silver ones with feathered feet are probably splash Marans, as the blue copper Marans should come with leg bands. The one on the right in the photo of the two clean legged yellow ones looks like a splash Ameraucana. I was thinking lavender, but those should be banded. I don't think the one on the left is the same breed, I don't see any muffs on that one. That one could be a lavender Orpington. The two yellow and black splotched ones look mottled, but the only mottled breed they could be is Exchequer Leghorn, and I think they're too dark for that. The one who didn't want its picture taken looks like a Light Brahma, which isn't in the assortment, but could be one of the free chicks.

At this point it's basically a guessing game 😂 The other ones you're gonna have to wait until they start getting more adult feathers. Their combs will also be a good indicator, though I think most of them have single combs, which won't help that much. All the other feather footed ones have to be Brahma, Cochin, or Marans, which will narrow it down a bit. None are Polish, as they don't have the little top hats.

Please update when they start getting more feathers, I'd love to see what they turn out to be!
I really appreciate you taking the time to write that out!
I’ll be sure to update here 😊
 
This little one somehow dodged the photoshoot earlier. Any thoughts? 😊@HorseGirlAbby @gimmie birdies

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Snapped a few pictures while I had them all contained while cleaning their pen - they’re 4 weeks today.

I think I have 2 cream legbar cockerels in the first pic, and not sure about the other two? There’s one with that barred feathering turning a “wheat” color with feathered feet I think might be a golden cuckoo marans? The two in the first picture have clean legs though.

Bottom pic is the Swedish flower hen cockerel on the right, I’m not sure the breed of the cockerel on the left.

There are still quite a few I’m not sure of on breed, but I’ve been really happy with the mix and quality of the birds!

There is one that has stayed much smaller than the rest, I believe a splash Marans. She had quite a bit of pasty butt early on, but aside from being small, she’s otherwise keeping up with the rest.

I believe I also got a Splash Ameraucana, and two Swedish Flower Hens.

I’ll try to update with more pictures soon for help IDing!
 
Picked up my Meyers order this morning! I ordered 10 female + 15 straight run of the rare breed assortment, plus the two freebies. All 27 arrived upright! I’ve never had chicks shipped before and was a nervous wreck - the tracking never updated and I was so worried they were stuck in Cleveland!

I had called my local PO earlier in the week to let them know they were coming, and they called me first thing this morning (as I was already pulling into the parking lot 🤣)

So ≈ 48 hours from hatch to my brooder, not too bad! None appear to be struggling as of yet.

One came banded for ID, but I otherwise haven’t had any luck with the chick identification page photos Meyers offers (by my own inexperience).

What does it look like I’ve got here?

Got the most of these, 10 I think - feathered feet:
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2 of these: (the toes are fine, straightened out when I moved it)
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2 of these:
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3 of these, love their feathered “boots” 😅:
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Here’s the banded one, I’m assuming SFH roo? The other option for yellow band was a black-split lavender Orpington:
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This one, who wasn’t happy to have his picture taken apparently:
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This one, with two random black splotches on its back:
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These two, feathered feet:
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These two, clean legged:
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These two:
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And here’s the whole lot upon opening the box! There was a divider separating them into two groups.
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Looks like you’ve got a nice mix there- a few I’ve recognised would be some marans Potentially some Orpington’s , two orange ones are rhoad island reds
The ones with with stripes could be a speckled or the one does look like a well summer
 

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