Any ideas on her breed?

jolly wattles

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This is her as a pullet 20170519_170752.jpg 20170519_165602.jpg
Now her as a newly egg layer Resized_20170704_185710.jpeg
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Since she is single combed, not pea combed, but has the beard and muff and lays a brown egg, she is probably an Easter Egger hybrid...something like an EE bred to an Australorp.

The other possibility, though she only appears to have 4 toes, is Favorelle to Australorp, since both of those are single combed and lay brown.

Pea comb is usually dominant, and since her comb appears single (in the photos...a bit grainy around the comb area), I'm thinking she may be something like Favorelle/Asutralorp.

LofMc
 
Well the local farm I get our birds from don't have asutralorp. But we do have faverolles. It's just perplexing. And she's half nuts. Lol. Not like a faverolle. I just can't for the life of me figure the mix.
 
Not a first generation Faverolle mix, since she doesn't have feathered legs. Maybe second or third generation.
Could also be from an Olive Egger project.
Actually the farm name is olive Eggers of West Tennessee but it's hard to see that in her. Especially the peronality. I was really expecting blue or green eggs so the brown took me by surprise.
 
Actually the farm name is olive Eggers of West Tennessee but it's hard to see that in her. Especially the peronality. I was really expecting blue or green eggs so the brown took me by surprise.
Olive Egger projects usually consist of a blue laying breed, like Easter Eggers or Ameraucana, and dark brown layers, like Marans (most likely due to the solid black coloring) or Welsummer. Your girl is likely second or third generation Marans/Easter Egger cross. The blue shell gene (to produce green eggs) is usually inherited with the pea comb gene. With her single comb from the Marans ancestor, brown is to be expected.
 

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