cheitz20

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Trying to figure out a breed here. One of my hens is a mixed-breed, born this spring, I think she's probably crossed with a purebred black ameraucana (hence the cheek puffs), however it is also possible her mother is a mixed breed as well. My flock of 6 started laying for the first time recently, and it's possible my only mixed-breed has started laying blue-ish green eggs. (I have 3 brown egg layers, 1 ameraucana, and 1 olive egger in addition to my mixed-breed). I'm wondering if there's an expert on chicken genetics here that can help me determine her breed lol. Her dad could be one of 3 different roosters: a copper maran, a golden-laced wyandotte, and one I don't recognize the breed of (it doesn't seem like a common breed, but I will include the photos of her possible fathers). I will also include some photos of her as well as the eggs I've gotten from my flock. This is definitely a puzzle I've been trying to figure out for a while!
 

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Trying to figure out a breed here. One of my hens is a mixed-breed, born this spring, I think she's probably crossed with a purebred black ameraucana (hence the cheek puffs),
EE have puff cheeks. Pure Ameracaunas are uncommon so the dad was most likely and EE.

Your hen is an Easter Egger
https://www.backyardchickens.com/attachments/screenshot-2024-09-19-at-10-31-03-pm-png.3947643/

What did the mothers comb look like? A pic of her may help.
Muffs (puff cheeks) are dominant meaning only one copy is need for the hen to show the cheeks. She got her cheeks from her mother. Any of the roosters could be her father I believe you’d get a black bird from any of those pairings. From my experience breeding yellow leg to black leg hens will have black legs while rooster will have green legs so again any of these roosters could be the father.

And the rooster you don’t know the breed he is a mixed breed. Meaning he won’t breed true and neither will your Easter Egger or Olive Egger.
 
I'm not totally sure who the mother is, but in the flock that her parents came from (the flock is from a local farm), there is a hen that looks almost identical to her: muffs, black feathers, pea comb. I'll attach a picture here, not the best quality but you'll see the similarities. Definitely the most similar out of all the other possible mothers.
 

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Do you have a better picture of her comb? Marans have white legs, and your mixed breed looks to have white legs as well, though I can't tell from the picture, which would make the wyandotte the most likely source of the yellow. But I would expect the rose comb from the wyandotte combined with the pea comb from the ameraucana/easter egger to result in a walnut comb. Unless the wyandotte is heterozygous for rose comb (not uncommon).
 

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