What breed is this blue egg laying hen???

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I got this hen from the auction about a year ago and really don't know what she is. She lays nice blue eggs and loves going broody for me. Is she a Easter egger?? She dusnt look like one to me.. I dunno what do you think she could be?

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It could also be an EE crossed with something else...thus giving you a different look, but still the blue eggs. Like a Dark Cornish EE mix or something...Then again, it would be easier to carry over the blue egg laying if the hen in the breeding laid white eggs and the male was the giver of blue it seems to me. Alot of times when you mix a blue egg layer with a brown, you get a green layer...But if the mother was a cornish that laid very light brown eggs, then it stands to reason that a few chicks out of that hatch could possibly also lay blue eggs. I'm guessing cornish, because they just have a look to them (they might be one of the only breeds I can recognize right away, them and Buff Orpingtons) Anyway, I'm also guessing Cornish because they have those same markings, and they go broody fairly often, and also usually lay a light brown egg.

But before I go off the rails with cornish, how big is she? Like medium, small, large?
 
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I'd say she's a medium size bird.

I just did a google search for Cornish chickens and I found this picture. It looks a lot like her!! Wow I would of never guessed!!! But why in the world would someone want to cross an EE with a meat bird.. That sems really odd to me.

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are you sure that bird is laying blue eggs and not one of your other birds? if it is laying a blue then its an easter egger
 
Dark Cornish aren't meat birds the way that Cornish x are. But obviously they use Cornish chickens to get the Cornish x but dark Cornish are normal hens with normal life expectancies. And yes it would still be an Easter egger, but I think it's a second mixed Easter egger. I really think its a dark Cornish Easter egger mix. Then again it really could be anything, but Cornish have a really severe face and yours has that face from what I can tell.
 
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EE is not a breed so there's no standard for them to match. The very bare minimum would be they were bred for mixed color eggs.. for the rest it can be 'anything goes'.

the fact a lot of EE having a 'look' is largely coincidence/result of how most of the current stock were produced. purposefully breeding for laced, feather leg, crested, specific colors etc would be fine- but there will be some who might object because they don't have the 'typical EE look' but ask them for a standard.... same goes for breeding EE with whatever breed, you can call them EE for the same reason.

the main reason is though, the gene for blue/green eggs is dominant and as result is extremely easy to breed for, even by accident.

I could easily believe your hen being EE dark cornish mix, her color patterning plus the yellow legs. I wouldn't be surprised if she was a second generation cross back to cornish. this would be great for producing a dual purpose bird for meat and colored eggs.
 

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