chicken cross pheasant?

[Emzyyy]

Do you know what type of pheasant are in your area? Maybe it might look like them?

 

[melhorne]

The phesants are all richly coloured game birds, with white collars , the pheasant hens are lighter browns and fawn. This chick is very much like its Mum with bright white feathers but a brown breast, the only thing is the strange coloured legs which are a grey/blue unlike any of my other chcikens and something I have not seen before. It also seems to have almost a crest and very little comb. The chick hatched out on the 01.04.09 - no really LOL ir did, so it has been a bit of a joker from the word go !

 

[Chris09]

young hen
chris

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Your "light sussex" has those willow colored legs.

 

[Sunny the Hippie Chick]

If you have not had your hens for awhile.. I mean if you just got them right before she laid the eggs and decided to hatch them.. The place you got her from may have had a roo.. And in that case she may have been fertile for a few weeks with out a roo..

Im no expert.. And I dont know if she was a new hen to you.. But I have heard of people buying hens.. And they hatched out eggs.. And the new owner never had a roo..

Just an idea...

 

[melhorne]

I had the mum for about 3 months before she hatched the chick so would be suprised if she was still "carrying" for that long. The mums legs are no where near the colour of the chicks . I think the chick is cute though

 

[PotterWatch]

Are you certain there isn't a sneaky hen-looking roo in your bunch?

 

[nzpouter]

that's a pure chicken... a girl too..

what else in your flock have that pom pom on the head... those things doesn't come out by themselves... possibly a silkie/ polish cross somewhere...

 

[KinderKorner]

It looks like a silkie cross to me.

 

[melhorne]

I am very sure we dont have a roo !! Ah well the mum hen is very independant and lives out most of the time, she must have gone visiting over the hill !! nature will out as they say