Can anyone tell me what breed this Hen is?

[donrae]

She's certainly a pretty color, I'm just not sure she's pure anything. The comb looks wrinkly to me, often a sign of mixed breeding somewhere in the gene pool. Is she laying, and if so what color eggs? my best guess for a pure breed would be a marans. she's too heavy to be an Andalusian, and no white earlobe. Wrong body shape to be an Orpington. The dark legs make me question if she's mixed also--I'm not sure what color legs blue Marans are supposed to have.

 

[thompson88]

I looked it up and she does look
Like a blue maran the dark blue neck feathers are what they have, some have a red neck feathers others dark blue or black looking

 

[thompson88]

And blue legs, and I second the mixed since blue isn't a certified color for marans

 

[aoxa]

She is great looking

orpington or rock, there isn't a pure bred blue australorp

Yes there is. Check your standard of perfection.

The Australorp currently has three recognised colours according to the Australian Poultry Standard; black, white and blue.

 

[aoxa]

My friend Camille has a flock of Blue Australorps. here is one of the cockerels.

 

[aoxa]

 

[aoxa]

I'm betting she is a Blue Australorp.

 

[thompson88]

Yeah I looked that up, your correct I read further and american society only recognizes black depends where ya look. Id like a pair of them myself now I know

 

[aoxa]

Yeah I looked that up, your correct I read further and american society only recognizes black depends where ya look. Id like a pair of them myself now I know

The best part about them is you can get 50% blue, 25% splash and 25% black from mating two blues