Finally I have my first chickens! I'm not sure what breed they are?

[joedie]

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Looks that that to me too! Sorry!

 

[MuranoFarms]

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She lays small white eggs.

Ahhhhh. ok. Otherwise she looks exactly like my 8 week old black copper maran who I'm hoping isn't a roo! lol

 

[CelticMoon1]

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Definately NO wyandottes here, GLW or SLW.

 

[Minniechickmama]

Ludacris -silkie roo
de brat- OEGB pullet
Salt n Pepa are crossed with barred rock, but also the one on the right has feathered legs, which says possibly cochin on one side or Cuckoo Marans
The rest I think are crosses.
I don't agree with you have so many roos, I see one definite (Luda) and two maybes (the barreds)
Good luck with them.

 

[RhodeRunner]

My guesses are
Picture 1: White Silkie Rooster
Picture 2: Gamefowl could be pure, could be a cross hen. Brown Red in Color. To large to be a Old English Game Bantam.
Picture 3: Two roosters (white necks, blacker) 1 hen brown. They all appear to be mixed gamefowl.
Picture 4: Gwen and Steph More cross breeds, don’t appear to have Silkie in them due to the lack of black pigment. Larger one may be a female, the other one looks male.
Nelly: Rooster mixed gamefowl
Salt and Pepper: Probably barred rock crosses, as barred trait is dominate, or sex-linkable. Both look like males males.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Gorgeous collection of healthy looking birds. One note: Chickenwire can be torn apart by dogs & raccoons. Can you replace it with hardware cloth?

 

[CelticMoon1]

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We actually had a chicken hawk sitting on the ground cutting through the chickenwire methodically once. That was years ago when we had budgies - they were all hugging the ground thinking they were camouflaged, there were white, yellow and blue dots all over the ground

Well we caught the bugger because we noticed the budgies' odd behaviour and have stuck to stronger protection ever since, both for budgies and chooks

(even if we don't have coons, we do have fox, hawks and badgers)

 

[chickenlover54]

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jw what makes you think they are those breeds? please explain this to me.

 

[rainnotebook]

Thank you all for your responses and thoughts. I love my birds so much and am very excited to see them grow up.

Gorgeous collection of healthy looking birds. One note: Chickenwire can be torn apart by dogs & raccoons. Can you replace it with hardware cloth?

And here I thought that chicken wire was the best!!!! Thank you so much for telling me. I thought we built something that wouldn't allow anything.​

 

[rainnotebook]

In case anyone cares about the results of who was a rooster and who was a female.

And if you haven't seen this post yet, why don't you try to guess before you read the below answers?

Luda is definitely a Rooster... but we knew that

Da Brat was and still is a laying hen

Out of TLC (the first pic of the 3) the one on the far right is a female

Gwen & Stefani are both females and actually Gwen went broody right away. She's still trying to figure it out though (and if anyone knows what they are that would be great!)

Nelly was indeed a male and was as beautiful, just a very horny one

Salt N' Pepa unfortunately was both males and the biggest bullies I've seen. They would "gang up" on a chicken and pull in different directions. So they had to go.

So there it is... in case anyone wanted to see if they were right or wrong.

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