Curious what breed she is...

[mountainbunny]

I'm still not sure what breed my little bantam girl Wiggles is. Would love some input. My best guess is Black Sex Link. Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[User395221]

I don't know, but I think she's very pretty.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Just so people know, she is not a BSL.

Black Sex Links are predominantly black with some red bleed through. It comes from mixing a barred hen (typically Barred Rock) over a rooster that is red based (typically RIR or NH).

The boys hatch black with a white head dot and grow into roosters looking similar to Barred Rocks, with more white barring and white in the saddle.

The girls hatch totally black and often have some red bleed through at the hackles, sometimes down the chest, sometimes laced elsewhere.

However, your girl is not predominately black. She is a partridge color, probably with some Welsummer in the background (which would explain the dark speckled eggs).

Feed stores like Atwoods are notorious for mixing their bins and getting a mixed variety of birds marked wrongly.

I think she is a mix from some chicks someone brought into the store, or a mixed oops from the hatchery.

Her legs suggest some willow color to them in some of the photos. I can't tell if that is true willow or simply photo shadow. If she has willow legs, she may be an EE/Welsummer mix though she does not have muff or beard. (Many mixes from EE's don't).

But she is definitely not a BSL.

LofMc
Edited to correct barred rooster to barred hen...typed too late last night....a barred rooster produces all barred chicks. Sex linking can only happen if the hen alone is barred and the roo solid non dominate as in red due to how the barred gene is on the sex related part of the genome of the mother, who determines the sex in birds. The father's base color cannot obscure the head dot as can happen with dominate white and in my experience certain wheaten.

 

[drumstick diva]

I wish I knew. I don't think sex links come in bantam size.

 

[Chicken Girl1]

Are you sure she is a bantam? Where did you get her?

 

[JennaMW14]

I also don't know, sorry.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

She's not any breed, she's a mix.

Probably with a smaller bantam and a larger bird if she is a 3/4 size (which she appears to be).

She *might* have some Welsummer in her. I had a Welsummer/Wyandotte/EE mix that looked very similar, but I've had other mixes look similar too....although the Welsummer tends to crop up with that color combination when mixed.

So that brings me back to a mixed breed girl.

LofMc

 

[mountainbunny]

I got her and all my chicks at Atwood's. They were marked as bantams but most everyone around me that's had experience with chickens tell me they look too big to be bantams. This is my 1st time raising chickens so I'm learning as I go. They've just started laying in the past month or so and I'm getting pretty much an egg s day from all 5 hens. There eggs are small... Same size as small eggs bought at grocery but the yolks are large so 2 eggs are just as filling as 2 large store bought eggs, and so much tastier!
Anyway whatever breed Wiggles I'd, she's happy, sweet and a good little layer. I love all my girls and my one rooster that protects them.

 

[QueenMisha]

That is a mixed breed.

 

[mountainbunny]

Thanks for the replies. Oh and she lays speckled eggs. Brown eggs sometimes with white speckles sometimes dark speckles.