All My Chickens..... a coop opera!

[cavemanrich]

Explain please
The lady I bought from told me BB reds… I googled them and they look just like this… does the H stand for Hen?

I had in the past Silver Duckwings, and Golden Duckwings. BTW,,, has nothing to do with ducks.
If you look up any variety of chickens,, you will get different variations of any particular breed. So just because they are called a certain name,, they may look slightly different. Show quality,, to SOP is something I don't follow, or care to. I just like my pet chickens equally, to those that are show quality.
So I did look up,, BBReds, and they are very similar to Golden Duckwings.
The ones that I got,,,(remember that I only get mature pullets, because roosters are prohibited) Seller told me they were Golden Duckwings.
Mine looked sooooo similar to your hen pictured. So I assumed They were same breed.
I'm not an expert on these specific breeds. I'm sure my chickens have genes from who knows where.. Like "Whos, ur daddy"

OEGH, yes, The H stands for hen. As I commonly heard at chicken swap meets in the past.
OEGB, The B stands for Bantam.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I had in the past Silver Duckwings, and Golden Duckwings. BTW,,, has nothing to do with ducks.
If you look up any variety of chickens,, you will get different variations of any particular breed. So just because they are called a certain name,, they may look slightly different. Show quality,, to SOP is something I don't follow, or care to. I just like my pet chickens equally, to those that are show quality.
So I did look up,, BBReds, and they are very similar to Golden Duckwings.
The ones that I got,,,(remember that I only get mature pullets, because roosters are prohibited) Seller told me they were Golden Duckwings.
Mine looked sooooo similar to your hen pictured. So I assumed They were same breed.
I'm not an expert on these specific breeds. I'm sure my chickens have genes from who knows where.. Like "Whos, ur daddy"

OEGH, yes, The H stands for hen. As I commonly heard at chicken swap meets in the past.
OEGB, The B stands for Bantam.

Aren’t silver and gold duckwings a coloration pattern, rather than a breed?

 

[RoyalChick]

Aren’t silver and gold duckwings a coloration pattern, rather than a breed?

That’s what I thought too.

 

[WhoDatChick]

I had in the past Silver Duckwings, and Golden Duckwings. BTW,,, has nothing to do with ducks.
If you look up any variety of chickens,, you will get different variations of any particular breed. So just because they are called a certain name,, they may look slightly different. Show quality,, to SOP is something I don't follow, or care to. I just like my pet chickens equally, to those that are show quality.
So I did look up,, BBReds, and they are very similar to Golden Duckwings.
The ones that I got,,,(remember that I only get mature pullets, because roosters are prohibited) Seller told me they were Golden Duckwings.
Mine looked sooooo similar to your hen pictured. So I assumed They were same breed.
I'm not an expert on these specific breeds. I'm sure my chickens have genes from who knows where.. Like "Whos, ur daddy"

OEGH, yes, The H stands for hen. As I commonly heard at chicken swap meets in the past.
OEGB, The B stands for Bantam.

Thank you!
Yea, I think same breed but different color variations… I bought these at a swap and they were started pullets… and I was told BBReds… I will look up golden duckwing

 

[cavemanrich]

Aren’t silver and gold duckwings a coloration pattern, rather than a breed?

That’s what I thought too.

These chickens do fall under same breed,(OEGB) but different variations. Sorry for not being more clear about that.
Just like so many other breeds. I can name many different ones. Orpingtons, Australorps, Leghorns, ALL have different varieties.
Like I stated in my post above. I'm not an expert on chicken breeds, Just going by what I have owned in my 25,, years of keeping them.
I'm sure that 99% of them were not near SOP. Since I purchased only low priced hens,, Some from the Butcher Shop, that I took home LIVE,, (to keep, not to process myself)
One of my earliest acquisitions, was an American Game hen from the butcher shop. All black very similar to what I currently have. She was going thru a hard molt. When I showed off my purchase to my DW,,,, She immediately said ,,, Chernobyl.. That was her name from then on.
She regrew her feathers and was a fine looking hen
FYI. Chernobyl was the nuclear disaster in Power plant in 1986.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

These chickens do fall under same breed,(OEGB) but different variations. Sorry for not being more clear about that.
Just like so many other breeds. I can name many different ones. Orpingtons, Australorps, Leghorns, ALL have different varieties.
Like I stated in my post above. I'm not an expert on chicken breeds, Just going by what I have owned in my 25,, years of keeping them.
I'm sure that 99% of them were not near SOP. Since I purchased only low priced hens,, Some from the Butcher Shop, that I took home LIVE,, (to keep, not to process myself)
One of my earliest acquisitions, was an American Game hen from the butcher shop. All black very similar to what I currently have. She was going thru a hard molt. When I showed off my purchase to my DW,,,, She immediately said ,,, Chernobyl.. That was her name from then on.
She regrew her feathers and was a fine looking hen
FYI. Chernobyl was the nuclear disaster in Power plant in 1986.

So, umm, your butcher shop sells live poultry on the side? That’s different!

 

[cavemanrich]

So, umm, your butcher shop sells live poultry on the side? That’s different!

This is one of the places near me. I also went to 2 others, that are slightly further from me.

They have no problem if you take home live. Same price ether way.

 

[WhoDatChick]

This is one of the places near me. I also went to 2 others, that are slightly further from me.


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They have no problem if you take home live. Same price ether way.
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I’m not sad that you can have the animal prepared for eating…. just sad seeing them crammed up

 

[cavemanrich]

I’m not sad that you can have the animal prepared for eating…. just sad seeing them crammed up

I see your point, But, every time I went there, I did not observe overcrowding. They do maintain the cages clean, so maybe the group was put in with another to cleanout service. They do have to feed the chickens,, so they try not to have too many at any one time, in anticipation of their sales. The feed tray is in front on outside of cage.
Water trough is there also. That may be why you are seeing many hens in front, and the backside of cage is vacant/empty.
I know that they will process your roosters, if you make an appointment. Long ago I did recommend them to an individual seeking such service. They were very happy with the service. There was of course a fee associated with each chicken done, but that individual told me they very happy with the service provided. Took a box of chickens(in plastic bags) home,, clean just like from the grocery store.
Chicago has "up the wazoo" of every kind of inspector imaginable. If there was inhumane treatment,, they would have been shut down long ago.