- Mar 16, 2014
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I posted about this chick a while back when I first got her, and got a lot of good guesses but no one who could definitely say "Yep! your chick is a ____!" (You can see the original post and her baby pictures here)
Here's the full body. I'm pretty sure this is a pullet as at 4 weeks she has little or no comb development, and no wattles at all.
Her skin is a pinkish with dusky grey in spots, but her feet, beak, and comb have always been very dark. even the bottoms of her feet are almost black!
She has lightly feathered shanks and four toes, solid black legs.
And, this is the recent development, a bronzed "scarf" coming up around her neck. (Sorry for the bluryness, she's a very active bird and this is the best shot I could get!) Up until this point we thought black japanese bantam, but they're solid black.
I got her from a TSC in the assorted bantam bin so I'm pretty sure she's a purebreed (albeit hatchery quality), but I think she may have gotten mixed in by accident? She doesn't look at all (to me) like any of the standard bantam breeds they get in there. If anything, she almost looks like a small black copper maran, but I don't think they come bantam sized? I would almost also say brown red OEGB too, except that she's feather legged and over twice the size of my silver duckwing OEGB.
So, I'm pretty much at a loss. Any thoughts or input would be welcome. Thanks for looking!
Here's the full body. I'm pretty sure this is a pullet as at 4 weeks she has little or no comb development, and no wattles at all.
Her skin is a pinkish with dusky grey in spots, but her feet, beak, and comb have always been very dark. even the bottoms of her feet are almost black!
She has lightly feathered shanks and four toes, solid black legs.
And, this is the recent development, a bronzed "scarf" coming up around her neck. (Sorry for the bluryness, she's a very active bird and this is the best shot I could get!) Up until this point we thought black japanese bantam, but they're solid black.
I got her from a TSC in the assorted bantam bin so I'm pretty sure she's a purebreed (albeit hatchery quality), but I think she may have gotten mixed in by accident? She doesn't look at all (to me) like any of the standard bantam breeds they get in there. If anything, she almost looks like a small black copper maran, but I don't think they come bantam sized? I would almost also say brown red OEGB too, except that she's feather legged and over twice the size of my silver duckwing OEGB.
So, I'm pretty much at a loss. Any thoughts or input would be welcome. Thanks for looking!
The feathered legs would make me think perhaps Langshan, but that isn't common in bantam (and they don't get the coloration on the neck). She may be a hatchery-quality Brown Red Old English Game that ended up with light feathering on the legs, but I would think that even a hatchery Old English Game would have clean legs.
