Can you tell me anything about this lovely lady?

[Kelly&Co]

She wasn't standing still for a great picture, but I'd love to know more about this lovely pullet. She's probably a mixed breed. She's a pretty, speckled dove gray and has some light feathering down her lower legs.

Thank you!

 

[Poultrybreeder]

Looks like a Silkie EE or Ameraucana mix

 

[Kelly&Co]

Looks like a Silkie EE or Ameraucana mix

Thanks! She's quite different looking from all of our others, so I couldn't help but wonder. It's been really neat hatching a random batch of eggs and seeing what we got out of them, but we have no idea what any of them are! Maybe in a few years I'll know more and can start to identity them.

 

[Poultrybreeder]

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Thanks! She's quite different looking from all of our others, so I couldn't help but wonder. It's been really neat hatching a random batch of eggs and seeing what we got out of them, but we have no idea what any of them are! Maybe in a few years I'll know more and can start to identity them.

Are the eggs from your chickens? Next time, what I did, was put separate hens in a different pen/cage for a day, for them to lay their egg. Then if there is only one rooster, you know what the father is. I marked the eggs with their breed crosses.

 

[Kelly&Co]

No, we participated in a classroom chick hatching project through our extension office, so the eggs were supplied by a variety of chicken raisers in the area and mixed up by the extension office for variety.

They printed out this spreadsheet when I asked what varieties they might be from. So they could be all sorts of mixes. I'm guessing each line is a different supplier.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

No, we participated in a classroom chick hatching project through our extension office, so the eggs were supplied by a variety of chicken raisers in the area and mixed up by the extension office for variety.

They printed out this spreadsheet when I asked what varieties they might be from. So they could be all sorts of mixes. I'm guessing each line is a different supplier.
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Ummmm, yeah, she could be a lot of things........

 

[Kelly&Co]

Ummmm, yeah, she could be a lot of things........

It's been really fun experience. I'm hoping for a broody hen in the spring so I can try to get some identifiable day old chicks under her.

 

[Kelly&Co]

I've tried looking up the breeds in the list in a hatchery catalog and it's just overwhelming! And then there's the vague ones and the ????!

 

[nminusyplusm]

She looks like a gorgeous EE to me.

She wasn't standing still for a great picture, but I'd love to know more about this lovely pullet. She's probably a mixed breed. She's a pretty, speckled dove gray and has some light feathering down her lower legs.

Thank you!
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