Breed and Gender Thread, anyone ask!

[debid]

Easter egger or sliverudd blue (isbar) ??

You have two juvenile chickens pictured and are asking what breed they are? Let's start with origin. Where did you get them? That's a pretty important clue.

 

[drumstick diva]

x2 Debid - precisely

 

[Svaness]

You have two juvenile chickens pictured and are asking what breed they are? Let's start with origin. Where did you get them? That's a pretty important clue.

I know one is a barred rock. Sorry, they're really close and it's hard to get a picture of just one. I got the barred rock from a local farm. The black coloured one I got from a farmer and he was unable to tell me her breed but said she would lay green eggs.

 

[debid]

I know one is a barred rock. Sorry, they're really close and it's hard to get a picture of just one. I got the barred rock from a local farm. The black coloured one I got from a farmer and he was unable to tell me her breed but said she would lay green eggs.

Ah. She's almost certainly a barnyard mix, then. He likely hatched her from a green egg but that is not a guarantee that she'll lay green eggs herself. If he were intentionally breeding easter eggers or olive eggers, I'd expect him to say so. But "I don't know" normally means it isn't a pure bred anything, he runs a mixed flock.

 

[Svaness]

Ah. She's almost certainly a barnyard mix, then. He likely hatched her from a green egg but that is not a guarantee that she'll lay green eggs herself. If he were intentionally breeding easter eggers or olive eggers, I'd expect him to say so. But "I don't know" normally means it isn't a pure bred anything, he runs a mixed flock.

Thank you! That's what I was thinking but couldn't be sure

 

[hosh1045]

This pullet came with my sapphire gems and blue Australorps, but definitely isn't either of those. She's got a brownish head and blue body with lightly feathered legs and feet... Any guesses?