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Help! Whats my chicken???

post #1 of 12
6/30/12 at 7:28am
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I am new to this site. Could anybody please help me determine what breed my chickens are?? We think they are about 9 weeks old. Thank youDSCF4112.JPG


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post #2 of 12
6/30/12 at 8:24am

hmm...... maybe a cornish x rock mix? I once had a cornish x rock who looked quite similar to the pictures but not exactly.

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post #3 of 12
6/30/12 at 9:02am

The legs are definitely not thick enough to be a cornish/rock cross and their faces aren't shaped like cornish/rock either. I'm thinking they are white rock mixed with maybe barred rock because of the pale golden barring on the body. They could be amberlinks too, they are super layer hybrids. Where did you get them? That would help determine your breed / crossbreed possibilities.

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Mixed flock of 51 egg laying hens and an EE rooster
7 Black Copper Marans, only 2 pullets
3 Turkey Poults
109 mixed breed, meat, and assorted laying chicks. yup chicken math LOVES me

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post #4 of 12
6/30/12 at 9:18am

I see some buff on the wings, look like gold sexlinks

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post #5 of 12
6/30/12 at 9:39am

maybe some sort of sex link

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post #6 of 12
6/30/12 at 9:42am

Tetra tint or Amber link.

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post #7 of 12
6/30/12 at 10:12am
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hi thanks for your responces ,

we are in lincolnshire england and totally new to chicken keeping just got 4 chickens in our back garden the 2 were asking about we brought locally as cream crested legbars . after a google search we soon noticed we could find nothing that looked like our chickens .we spoke to the girl we brought from and she suggested looking under white legbar ? still no resemblances the nearest we thought was amber link or star maybe.or a throw back legbar gene . interested in any opinions thanks

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post #8 of 12
6/30/12 at 12:49pm
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we are in lincolnshire england and totally new to chicken keeping just got 4 chickens in our back garden the 2 were asking about we brought locally as cream crested legbars . after a google search we soon noticed we could find nothing that looked like our chickens .we spoke to the girl we brought from and she suggested looking under white legbar ? still no resemblances the nearest we thought was amber link or star maybe.or a throw back legbar gene

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post #9 of 12
6/30/12 at 1:28pm

Welcome to BYC :)  Their combs look too small to be Leghorn so I think they look like they have Rock or Cornish in them. 

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post #10 of 12
6/30/12 at 5:10pm
Being that you are in the UK makes it more likely that they are white legbars. I would suggest searching in the Breeds, Genetics, and showing section for the legbar thread. I remember seeing something about someone here in the US with legbars carrying the white gene.
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