Found stray chicken - need help with breed ID please!

[slickware]

One of our friends had a visitor in their yard the other day, and after checking with neighbors, we ended up adopting another stray chicken into our flock (now 11 total).

I went through the Cackle Hatchery magazine and my best guess is she's either a Yokohama or some type of English Game bird... but I'm no chicken-breed master here.

Can anyone shed some light on what she might be?

 

[donrae]

She looks like some type of game hen, likely mixed.

 

[Irishhenman]

It is some sort of game hen, oxford old English, American game or something simular

 

[slickware]

Wow. She certainly looks almost exactly like this

Black Breasted Red Old English Game Hen:​

 

[KieksterChicken]

This is probably going to sound naive on my part but is that for sure a hen and not a trimmed up fighting roo?

 

[slickware]

That's entirely possible, given that she was found in South Dallas. However, (s)he has been clucking very chicken-ly and doesn't appear to have any spur growth at all. I don't get a roo vibe from it at all.
Hopefully it's not a roo, as I've already got one and the neighbors would kill me if I added to the volume with a second.

 

[KieksterChicken]

lol Well guessing if that rescue is a fighting roo it will totally annihilate the roo you have now if you put them together. Assuming if it's a hen it won't fight your roo. Anyways I was just curious as to roo or pullet becuase fighting roosters have their combs/wattles trimmed down and the natural spurs trimmed way down to nubs so the owners can strap long razor sharp metal spurs to the legs in place of the natural ones when the birds fight. So with all that stuff trimmed off sexing has to be done by behavior and feathering and we obviously can't determine behavior from pics and I'm having trouble seeing the hackles and saddle feathers and if there are any sickle feathers growing in that tail lol.

 

[donrae]

That's absolutely a hen, roosters just don't come in that color. The equivalent colored rooster would have a black breast.

 

[KieksterChicken]

lol, right as you were writing your post I was writing this one Donrae. Can't believe I thought that was a roo..lol! Oops, I derped. That is a pullet, roo would be much more colorful. So just iggy my previous posts. I'm going to get some tea..caffeine may help me actually think clearly today..lol. Apologies.

 

[slickware]

That'd be my next question, actually. Does this look like a pullet, or is this a mature-sized chicken? I know there's not much for sale in the photo, but if I had to go by my experience raising the ones I've got already, I feel like this one is pullet-sized. However, from what I gather, the OEGs are not a whole lot larger than bantams, is that right?