Thank you goosegrrl! This is great information. I love Sussex chickens, we have one speckled hen. Button is very sweet, and maybe we will get her some more bantam Americaunas/EE's to get some little blue or green eggs.
Thanks everyone! I don't think that she has been attacked by anything, I'm sure I would have noticed. She has slate colored legs. I might try to get some better pictures of her today.
She is definitely a bantam, two pounds or less. None of our hens our laying, but once the weather warms up I might try that. Thank you both for the help.
My blue bantam hen, named Button, is 11 months old, and I am wondering why her comb small and undeveloped, and it has always been this way. It almost looks like a pea comb to me. I thought she was a Belgian bearded d'anvers, but this breed appears to have large, noticeable rose combs. I am...