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[jaredrah777]

Hi i didnt get that much feedback on my prior post wanted to see if i can get more engagement.

This guy is 2.5-3 months old. he/she is a light brahma
thank u!

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Looks to be a pullet so far and not a Light Brahma. She has a beard so perhaps there's some EE in there. Mixed breed either way

 

[jaredrah777]

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Looks to be a pullet so far and not a Light Brahma. She has a beard so perhaps there's some EE in there. Mixed breed either way

hoping for a pullet! thank u

 

[jpalmatier83]

Agreed. Mixed breed. Looks like a pullet.

 

[jaredrah777]

Agreed. Mixed breed. Looks like a pullet.

if its a mixed do they automatically lay different colored eggs like easter eggers?

 

[jaredrah777]

@jpalmatier83 @Rhodebar Lover

do you guys thinks its a light brahma mixed with an Easter egger?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Cockerel.

 

[jpalmatier83]

@jpalmatier83 @Rhodebar Lover

do you guys thinks its a light brahma mixed with an Easter egger?

TSC labeled mine a white brahama, and I guess I don’t know what the “standard” is. I wouldnt begin to guess what yours is mixed with.

The reason I’m guessing mixed, look at the hackle feathers and how much more pronounced my birds are than yours.

As to egg color. Mine (I think it was her) just started laying a very light but not white egg. I don’t know what the genetics are, so I wouldn’t want to guess on that either.

P.S. best pic I have at the moment. It’s a bit old.

 

[NatJ]

if its a mixed do they automatically lay different colored eggs like easter eggers?

A hen will only lay one color of eggs. For Easter Eggers, that means that one hen may lay blue eggs, another hen lays green eggs, another hen lays brown eggs. The same hen does not lay eggs of different colors.

In the case of yours, assuming it is a pullet, the egg color will depend on what genes she inherited from each parent. She is most likely to lay brown eggs or green eggs, but there is a chance of almost-white eggs or blue eggs. You will not know for sure until she starts to lay. Once she does start laying, she will keep laying that same color of egg for her whole life.

A pullet's first eggs are a little darker shade than her later eggs, and the color tends to get gradually lighter as she lays. But if she lays brown eggs, they will all be shades of brown, just gradually becoming a lighter brown. If she lays green eggs, they will always be green, just gradually becoming lighter green. White is white, so that is the one color that does not get lighter as the season progresses.

 

[jaredrah777]

Cockerel.

i hope ur wrong