Chicken "mutt" club!!!

[flytie]

These are the closest pictures I found online-

 

[gg706]

Beautiful! I bet she blends in and can free range pretty well!

 

[ChickNmamma]

These are the closest pictures I found online-

Yes, Easter Eggers are mutts - so they qualify. Try putting some really good food down and see if you can get her picture.

 

[flytie]

I'll see if i can put up a picture tommorow. My camera needs charging.

 

[Polishpal]

I don't have any pictures of my mutt but she is a silkie×barred rock×blue polish cross thing. She ia roughly 4 months and still the size of a young chick, age has the polish head crest but silkie feathers and took her cross breed mothers small size gene and is itty bitty. She has blue feather with whitish faded barred rock pattern. She also has purple pink skin.....she is one ugly bird. I hope I can get a good picture because she is a sight to behold.

 

[Polishpal]

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This hen is silkie x american game

What a preety girl

 

[mlaff]

I haven't uploaded pictures yet either but I have 2 beautiful mutts. They are silkie x phoenix mixes. My roo has beautiful black feathers in which shine green in the sun. Then pullet has gray laced feathers. Both of them are as soft as can be. They are very friendly, my 6 year old is always holding them. I have them in a coop with a white silkie and they all just adore my daughter and follow her around.

 

[bamitsbrittany]

I have no idea what she is lol. I named her Wilma but my husband calls her Ugly. Poor thing lol.

 

[bamitsbrittany]

What are my chickens!!!! This the response I just got about them... =(

"They're barnyard mixes. Parent birds included something barred, a Silkie, and probably an EE but none of these look like hatchery-bred "pure" anything."


What do you all think?

 

[ChickNmamma]

What are my chickens!!!! This the response I just got about them... =(

"They're barnyard mixes. Parent birds included something barred, a Silkie, and probably an EE but none of these look like hatchery-bred "pure" anything."


What do you all think?

I think they are right - but they sure are cool. Why don't you want mixes? They lay eggs or crow - and yours look neat. Were you told you were buying purebred chickens? The first one sure looks like my Silkie mix, the second could be what is sold at the feed stores as Barred Rocks (but they aren't really), the third looks sort of like a white silkie?, the fourth looks like some of my EEs and the fifth I don't know - never had a white chick. If you got them from a feed store or a hatchery - they are all just chickens - not purebred or show quality birds.

P.S. - they do look like "hatchery bred" birds for the most part. However I wouldn't call them "purebred".. most hatchery birds are poorly bred at best - mixed at worst.