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 Hi, the pictures are of Tink, our smallest hen who is already laying. The other variety of her "sisters" born on 3/17/12 are not laying yet. We ordered a rainbow assortment from McMurray,so we have all kinds. For a bit there we thought Tink was going to be Tank. I am beginning to doubt that she is a Buff Orp, b/c she is small, has a bent comb, and lays white eggs. She's been laying a week now. She is calm and not skittish. We have a buff that I have zero doubts about b/c of her size and dark spot behind her ear. Tink {and her sister Dumplin} are small. Sorry if the pic is kinda fuzzy.

 

 

Walking. She's little,but not a bantam.

 

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Edited by TnMama - 8/6/12 at 5:17pm

 Mama to country kids. Hen Mama to ; Molly & Prudie RIRs. Lacy & Sylvia silver spangled hamburgs. Maple & Hazel EEs. Minnie  barred rock.Sydney black minorca. Tink & Dumplin buff minorcas. Sally buff orpington. Missy andalusian {we think}. Peggy ancona. Patti dark cornish {I think}.  Foghorn leghorn rooster.

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 Mama to country kids. Hen Mama to ; Molly & Prudie RIRs. Lacy & Sylvia silver spangled hamburgs. Maple & Hazel EEs. Minnie  barred rock.Sydney black minorca. Tink & Dumplin buff minorcas. Sally buff orpington. Missy andalusian {we think}. Peggy ancona. Patti dark cornish {I think}.  Foghorn leghorn rooster.

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She might be a mix and she looks alot like a banty, but she is very beautiful!!!

Ameraucanas are so awesome! They are beautiful, sweet, and amazing :)

I am a young, proud owner of my own Ducks, Chickens, Turkeys, and Geese :)

RIP One of my first hens named Pickled. She was a Red Sexlink. Past on Jan-24-2013

Oh my gosh! Click this! NOW! This is totally CRAZY! (Click to show)

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Ameraucanas are so awesome! They are beautiful, sweet, and amazing :)

I am a young, proud owner of my own Ducks, Chickens, Turkeys, and Geese :)

RIP One of my first hens named Pickled. She was a Red Sexlink. Past on Jan-24-2013

Oh my gosh! Click this! NOW! This is totally CRAZY! (Click to show)

Ha ha, fail

 

 

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 Thank you! I'm attached to all of my girls. She's friendly too. I talk really nice to her since she's the one laying,lol. She very well could be a banty, b/c when we were brooding my cousin added some of her home hatched ones to the mix. She does have all kinds of banties.

 

 Do you know anything about solid black hens? I have a solid black hen, red comb,but a white dot behind her ear lobe. I thought she was an austrolorp {sp} but she's not. 

 Mama to country kids. Hen Mama to ; Molly & Prudie RIRs. Lacy & Sylvia silver spangled hamburgs. Maple & Hazel EEs. Minnie  barred rock.Sydney black minorca. Tink & Dumplin buff minorcas. Sally buff orpington. Missy andalusian {we think}. Peggy ancona. Patti dark cornish {I think}.  Foghorn leghorn rooster.

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 Mama to country kids. Hen Mama to ; Molly & Prudie RIRs. Lacy & Sylvia silver spangled hamburgs. Maple & Hazel EEs. Minnie  barred rock.Sydney black minorca. Tink & Dumplin buff minorcas. Sally buff orpington. Missy andalusian {we think}. Peggy ancona. Patti dark cornish {I think}.  Foghorn leghorn rooster.

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 Thank you! I'm attached to all of my girls. She's friendly too. I talk really nice to her since she's the one laying,lol. She very well could be a banty, b/c when we were brooding my cousin added some of her home hatched ones to the mix. She does have all kinds of banties.

 

 Do you know anything about solid black hens? I have a solid black hen, red comb,but a white dot behind her ear lobe. I thought she was an austrolorp {sp} but she's not. 


Do you have a photo of her?  Your buff hen looks like a hen we used to have which was a Buff Minorca. She was a small bird; not a bantam, just a small hen, like a Leghorn or Campine.  I would have mentioned Buff Leghorn, but the McMurray catalog doesn't have them. The only bird that looks like your hen in the catalog is the Buff Minorca. Hope this helps! She's a cute, pretty hen, by the way!!! :)

         

"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Jeremiah 1:5
 
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"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Jeremiah 1:5
 
 Children are a blessing from the Lord! ~ Psalms 127
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 Thank You for the info. I named her Tinkerbelle b/c she was the teeniest one of the bunch and the feistiest! In the brooder she was always snatching stuff and running off with it! She does that now sometimes too when we feed them scraps. This may sound silly to say about a hen,but she's a clown!

 

 

I've been trying to upload the other pictures, but for some reason BYC is not letting me. 


Edited by TnMama - 8/6/12 at 6:07pm

 Mama to country kids. Hen Mama to ; Molly & Prudie RIRs. Lacy & Sylvia silver spangled hamburgs. Maple & Hazel EEs. Minnie  barred rock.Sydney black minorca. Tink & Dumplin buff minorcas. Sally buff orpington. Missy andalusian {we think}. Peggy ancona. Patti dark cornish {I think}.  Foghorn leghorn rooster.

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 Mama to country kids. Hen Mama to ; Molly & Prudie RIRs. Lacy & Sylvia silver spangled hamburgs. Maple & Hazel EEs. Minnie  barred rock.Sydney black minorca. Tink & Dumplin buff minorcas. Sally buff orpington. Missy andalusian {we think}. Peggy ancona. Patti dark cornish {I think}.  Foghorn leghorn rooster.

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 This is  Missy Mae. She looked like a mocking bird when she was little, and it's the state bird of Ms, where I'm from.

 

 

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{We don't chain up our girls. They're perched on a tractor in our yard . That's Peggy the Ancona and Sylvia a Silver laced hamburg under there too}

 

 

 This is Sydney. I thought she was an Australorp, but looking at pictures of them I'm not sure. They don't have a white dot. Sorry for fuzzy pic. BYC is not letting me upload the good ones I took w my camera. She is solid black with almost a green tint. Her feet are yellow with some black.

 

 

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 Mama to country kids. Hen Mama to ; Molly & Prudie RIRs. Lacy & Sylvia silver spangled hamburgs. Maple & Hazel EEs. Minnie  barred rock.Sydney black minorca. Tink & Dumplin buff minorcas. Sally buff orpington. Missy andalusian {we think}. Peggy ancona. Patti dark cornish {I think}.  Foghorn leghorn rooster.

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 Mama to country kids. Hen Mama to ; Molly & Prudie RIRs. Lacy & Sylvia silver spangled hamburgs. Maple & Hazel EEs. Minnie  barred rock.Sydney black minorca. Tink & Dumplin buff minorcas. Sally buff orpington. Missy andalusian {we think}. Peggy ancona. Patti dark cornish {I think}.  Foghorn leghorn rooster.

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Do you have a photo of her?  Your buff hen looks like a hen we used to have which was a Buff Minorca. She was a small bird; not a bantam, just a small hen, like a Leghorn or Campine.  I would have mentioned Buff Leghorn, but the McMurray catalog doesn't have them. The only bird that looks like your hen in the catalog is the Buff Minorca. Hope this helps! She's a cute, pretty hen, by the way!!! :)

 

  THANK YOU SO MUCH! I googled Buff Minorca, as I was looking at pics, the oldest son came behind me and says "Hey! There's tinkerbelle!".  You called it perfectly! I knew they weren't orp's. but when you type in Buff Breeds the orps always come up. 

 Mama to country kids. Hen Mama to ; Molly & Prudie RIRs. Lacy & Sylvia silver spangled hamburgs. Maple & Hazel EEs. Minnie  barred rock.Sydney black minorca. Tink & Dumplin buff minorcas. Sally buff orpington. Missy andalusian {we think}. Peggy ancona. Patti dark cornish {I think}.  Foghorn leghorn rooster.

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 Mama to country kids. Hen Mama to ; Molly & Prudie RIRs. Lacy & Sylvia silver spangled hamburgs. Maple & Hazel EEs. Minnie  barred rock.Sydney black minorca. Tink & Dumplin buff minorcas. Sally buff orpington. Missy andalusian {we think}. Peggy ancona. Patti dark cornish {I think}.  Foghorn leghorn rooster.

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Missy Mae looks like  a blue andalusian, but they usually have large white earlobes (that is what those spots are called). I think Sydney might be a black Mincora, or maybe an andalusian. Mincoras are smaller, like your tink. 

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Well, the kittens aren't so cute anymore and the easter egger cockerels are in the freezer. Plus, I think offering them as "prizes" scared folks off! So, I'm still posting quotes, if you know it let me know. I'm very enamored of this new one, it may hang around for a while!

 

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Rachel BB
 

Well, the kittens aren't so cute anymore and the easter egger cockerels are in the freezer. Plus, I think offering them as "prizes" scared folks off! So, I'm still posting quotes, if you know it let me know. I'm very enamored of this new one, it may hang around for a while!

 

"If I'd known the world was ending I'd have brought better books"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Missy Mae looks like  a blue andalusian, but they usually have large white earlobes (that is what those spots are called). I think Sydney might be a black Mincora, or maybe an andalusian. Mincoras are smaller, like your tink. 

 

 Thanks. I got to looking in one of my chicken books and thought the same thing about Sydney. She's larger than Tink  and the other buff minorca we have. It's been so hot here in West Tn this summer,so I think laying might be delayed a bit. We feed and water them well,and they are growing great. How old are they when full grown? Any hen?

 Mama to country kids. Hen Mama to ; Molly & Prudie RIRs. Lacy & Sylvia silver spangled hamburgs. Maple & Hazel EEs. Minnie  barred rock.Sydney black minorca. Tink & Dumplin buff minorcas. Sally buff orpington. Missy andalusian {we think}. Peggy ancona. Patti dark cornish {I think}.  Foghorn leghorn rooster.

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 Mama to country kids. Hen Mama to ; Molly & Prudie RIRs. Lacy & Sylvia silver spangled hamburgs. Maple & Hazel EEs. Minnie  barred rock.Sydney black minorca. Tink & Dumplin buff minorcas. Sally buff orpington. Missy andalusian {we think}. Peggy ancona. Patti dark cornish {I think}.  Foghorn leghorn rooster.

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 Hi, the pictures are of Tink, our smallest hen who is already laying. The other variety of her "sisters" born on 3/17/12 are not laying yet. We ordered a rainbow assortment from McMurray,so we have all kinds. For a bit there we thought Tink was going to be Tank. I am beginning to doubt that she is a Buff Orp, b/c she is small, has a bent comb, and lays white eggs. She's been laying a week now. She is calm and not skittish. We have a buff that I have zero doubts about b/c of her size and dark spot behind her ear. Tink {and her sister Dumplin} are small. Sorry if the pic is kinda fuzzy.

 

 

Walking. She's little,but not a bantam.

 

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She looks like a Buff Leghorn   

 

 

In Italy, where the Livorno breed standard is recent, ten colour varieties are recognised.[1] There is a separate Italian standard for the German Leghorn variety, the Italiana (German: Italiener).[1] The Fédération française des volailles (the French poultry federation) divides the breed into four types: the American white, the English white, the old type (golden-salmon) and the modern type, for which seventeen colour variants are listed for full-size birds, and fourteen for bantams; it also recognises an autosexing variety, the Cream Legbar.[7] Both the American Poultry Association and the American Bantam Association (ABA) recognize a number of Leghorn varieties including white, red, black-tailed red, light brown, dark brown, black, blue, buff, Columbian, buff Columbian, barred, exchequer and silver. In Britain, the Leghorn Club recognises eighteen colours: golden duckwing, silver duckwing, partridge, brown, buff, exchequer, Columbian, pyle, white, black, blue, mottled, cuckoo, blue-red, lavender, red, crele and buff Columbian.[2] Most Leghorns have single combs; rose combs are permitted in some countries, but not in Italy. The legs are bright yellow, and the ear-lobes white.[1]

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change; 
courage to change the things I can; 
and wisdom to know the difference.

In Jesus name Amen :)

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God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change; 
courage to change the things I can; 
and wisdom to know the difference.

In Jesus name Amen :)

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