Chicken Breed Help

ChickenCanoe said:

Whenever people talk about what a chicken will look like that is crossed, I think all bets are off.

As for large combs. Someone in our local chicken group saw a picture of some of my birds and asked what breed that cockerel was. I said, it's a pullet and it's an Ancona. It was only half grown. Normally even Mediterranean breeds pullets wait forever to get big combs but not always.

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Seesagirl said:

The Tractor Supply in our area is crap too. I was told the two bantams I got were silkies. Sadly I was still too much of a novice to realize they weren't. Called the manager and she's like oh, well they came in a box marked assorted bantams. They were Mille fleur d'uccle bantams. But that's all good, one turned out to be a beautiful roo!

Just go to all the different feed stores near you until you find a good one. I have the options of four different places. One they sell boring breeds, two they mislabel breeds, but the last is amazing. They get a huge variety including game birds, they actually know about the chicks (!) and they're very accommodating. They sell thousands of chicks every year, which is amazing since they're in a semi rural area. You just need to find a reliable store.

I have no idea what breed yours are, but I have Black Australorps and those aren't.

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