I posted this somewhere else regarding the colour change, but I thought I'd ask about her breed here.
I've got a hen who I got last winter. She is just a cross breed. She was totally white as a chick, at around 20 weeks I noticed a tiny amount of pigment on her, but hardly anything. She's just gone through a pretty bad moult and now she's got a heap of brown on her!!
Based on her colour now, anyone know what breed she might be mixed with? Never seen that kind of colour in a chook before. I've got two other hens that were hatched with her, which look pretty much the same except they're both pure white (one with pale legs, one with black legs) I understand they probably have different mothers, but seeing as they all came from the same place, its likely they've all got the same dad.
This is her at around 20 weeks (The pink is antiseptic spray for some wounds after she was attacked by a dog)
The next three photos are her today
I've got a hen who I got last winter. She is just a cross breed. She was totally white as a chick, at around 20 weeks I noticed a tiny amount of pigment on her, but hardly anything. She's just gone through a pretty bad moult and now she's got a heap of brown on her!!
Based on her colour now, anyone know what breed she might be mixed with? Never seen that kind of colour in a chook before. I've got two other hens that were hatched with her, which look pretty much the same except they're both pure white (one with pale legs, one with black legs) I understand they probably have different mothers, but seeing as they all came from the same place, its likely they've all got the same dad.
This is her at around 20 weeks (The pink is antiseptic spray for some wounds after she was attacked by a dog)
The next three photos are her today
