Blue Star chicken - info?

[Tstierwalt]

Hi folks
I have one Blue Star that I got from an excellent local hatchery. Other than their description, I can't find much about them online. So far she is a very sweet hen and beautiful blue-grey and fairly small compared to her giant cuckoo Maran sister. Anyone else have a Blue Star, and can you tell me if they're a proper breed or a hybrid mix of certain parents etc? It's very hard to find any info on them!

I just got a blue star hen and roo and they came from Ideal Poultry. If you look it up on their website it explains which two breeds were mixed to create the blue stars

 

[Chickadee_Mama]

Hi folks
I have one Blue Star that I got from an excellent local hatchery. Other than their description, I can't find much about them online. So far she is a very sweet hen and beautiful blue-grey and fairly small compared to her giant cuckoo Maran sister. Anyone else have a Blue Star, and can you tell me if they're a proper breed or a hybrid mix of certain parents etc? It's very hard to find any info on them!

I bought a few from a local hatchery as well, and they are gorgeous! This hatchery says they are a hybrid created by crossing a Blue Andalusian with Plymouth Barred Rock. They really make an Instagram-worthy flock.

 

[mossyoakpro]

I bought a few from a local hatchery as well, and they are gorgeous! This hatchery says they are a hybrid created by crossing a Blue Andalusian with Plymouth Barred Rock. They really make an Instagram-worthy flock.

I have 3 of them...great birds. Mine are all 3 different shades of gray.

 

[Bfast4Dinner]

Do you think this is a blue star rooster? I don't have any barred chicks so I'm assuming he is a blue star from ideal. Does anyone else have a picture of a blue star rooster? 10 weeks old.

 

[Bfast4Dinner]

Do you think this is a blue star rooster? I don't have any barred chicks so I'm assuming he is a blue star from ideal. Does anyone else have a picture of a blue star rooster? 10 weeks old.

 

[NatJ]

Do you think this is a blue star rooster? I don't have any barred chicks so I'm assuming he is a blue star from ideal. Does anyone else have a picture of a blue star rooster? 10 weeks old.

It looks like he has a crest of feathers behind the comb. A Blue Star should not have a crest like that.

If he came from Ideal, he is probably a "Blue Olive Egger."
https://www.idealpoultry.com/product/1996/47
The description includes, "some will have a small crest."

 

[Bfast4Dinner]

Thank you. Here is what I ordered from ideal. I think I have everyone accounted for other than a blue star or blue australorp.

 

[Bfast4Dinner]

It looks like he has a crest of feathers behind the comb. A Blue Star should not have a crest like that.

If he came from Ideal, he is probably a "Blue Olive Egger."
https://www.idealpoultry.com/product/1996/47
The description includes, "some will have a small crest."

One of my welbar has the same crest like feather behind it's comb. Thank you for help! Someone is crowing....I'm trying to find out who.

 

[Bfast4Dinner]

One of my welbar has the same crest like feather behind it's comb...from ideal as well. Thank you for help! Someone is crowing....I'm trying to find out who.

 

[FunClucks]

I think it's an olive egger. Might be a boy depending on the age of the chicken vs the size of the wattles. But that head poof is, IMO, from cream crested legbar parentage - they're a blue or green egg layer often crossed with barred rock or really any brown egg layer to create olive eggers.