Can anyone identify what breed these chickens are??? It would be greatly appreciated :)

[NosiphoChooks]

Im quite new to chickens too so not much help! You have a lovely bunch there though. One I do know is that the golden coloured one in the second photo is a buff orpington cus I've got one at home.

 

[my sunwolf]

1- Rhode Island Red
2- Buff Orpington and Barred Plymouth Rock
3- Speckled Sussex
4- Silver Grey Dorking


All of these breeds lay brown eggs.

Well said

 

[kwinnypoo]

OP mentioned that one lays a blue egg... The odd man out to me is Spice... Which is why I suggested EE ...

 

[my sunwolf]

OP mentioned that one lays a blue egg... The odd man out to me is Spice... Which is why I suggested EE ...

She could be an EE, or something crossed with a dorking, it just doesn't make sense that she would lay a blue egg with a single comb (there is a 3% genetic chance of this happening, ie not very likely). Now a green egg, that's a slightly different story, but still not very likely.

Edit: The genetics is actually much more complicated than that but I don't fully grasp it so can't explain it... just think of it as being pretty unusual to get a single comb bird that lays blue or green eggs.

 

[popsicle]

I don't think Spice is a Dorking--I don't see a fifth toe

ETA: I think the fifth toe is dominant, so if she were a recent cross she should have it.
Legbars lay blue eggs and have single combs. Spice isn't a legbar. I don't have any ideas what kind of cross she is--since most blue egg laying birds have the traits noted above that are dominant.

 

[kwinnypoo]

Isn't blue eggs a dominant trait?? I don't know the genetics either, but, one of those lays a blue egg, maybe the OP can come on here and clarify for sure what color exactly the egg is for us?

 

[hdowden]

if those are all of the chickens then the last one is an EE since an EE is any chicken that carries the blue egg laying gene....

 

[nixzoo]

The last one could also be a silver leghorn cross.

 

[Phoenix Farms]

What about the last one being a Silver Phoenix? It has dark legs. But she would be the blue egg layer. Phoenix/EE cross?

 

[sevenbabychicks]

I agree that it is probably Spice laying those blue-green eggs, even with that single comb. All of my EEs with single-ish combs lay brown eggs, but I've seen a few mentioned on here that express the blue egg gene. Plus, my first generation no-muff EEs have little wattles like that. Congrats to the OP on a beautiful assortment of birds and egg colors!