:) They are built different, in fact, don't be suprised if the heavier bird gives you light brown eggs. Her body shape and small comb look more like a white rock. The bird in question looks like a leghorn with her lighter narrow body and large comb.
I agree MegC's bird looks like a dark cornish. I have one from Murray Mcmurray who is 5 months. She's a nice calm bird who enjoys foraging, even in our cold weather. Yours looks like a pullet so far. My birds legs looked off until 4 months of age. Now they're clearly yellow like they should...
Mine too! 2 blue eggs every day out of the three 1 year old hens. Nothing from the sex link. I've got 3 pol pullets who should be laying soon with two who might lay blue or green!
A white rock is a possibility as well. They look too wide for a leghorn but I'm not getting a cornish cross feel from those chicks either. Another week or two of development will help. My white rock is much wider then my leghorn crosses but nothing like a cornish cross.
The barred rock hens will not contribute to the nice dark brown you're needing to get olive eggers. Try putting in some cuckoo marans with your olive egger roo. Depending on his genes you could get sex links and about half of his female offspring will lay olive eggs.
It is very common for an adult EE hen to have three rows of peas. Its just when a young chick has three rows its generally a rooster. Enjoy those blue eggs!
Yes the large white hens are easter eggers. They have some leghorn (father) in their background which contibutes to the white coloring and yellow legs. They are considered EE and not your typical barnyard mix because they carry the blue egg gene from their EE mom. They started laying at 16...
Neither are showing large or reddened combs and I would lean toward pullets at this time. I like to give mine 8 to 10 weeks before deciding who is what so I don't miss any late maturing cockerals.
Chickens will eat anything, including a baby chick. I've had a similar accident happen with mine. :( I think losing the chick is punishment enough for your daughter and a good life lesson she won't forget. Sorry for your loss!
I haven't had to trim before so I'm unsure how much I'll take off. Enough to see his little butt hole clearly I guess. He is nearly 8 months old and should be fertile! He crows and mates and the girls hatched on the same date have been laying for over 2 months.