Got myself some adult hens, no clue on the breeds.

[RavenStorm]

I also got this girl, but she was easy for me to ID on my own. A bantam bearded Polish hen, black laced? I'm not clear on the color titles everyone else seems to know by heart lol. I loved her, but she was getting beat up worse than the white cochin and I knew that after quarantine was over my older girls would pick on her too since she would be the only bantam so I sold her. bye bye Cher!

 

[Lifetime chicken lover]

I agree with Stormy- #5 looks like a black austrolorp and I think #4 might be a Rhode island red- at least she looks like my RIR... but i couldn't see her legs.

 

[RavenStorm]

Really? A New Hampshire Red, a Production Red, or a RIR? I have RIRs and she looks nothign like them, they are a rich dark brownish red color and this chicken is a washed out tannish-buff color. Granted I've never seen a production red, and yeah she could be a NHR, but she's got more black in the tail than I thought NHRs had. Huh, guess that means it's time to go picture hunting, darn my life lol.

 

[StormyMoon]

Is it possible #4 could be mix Buff Orpington x RIR
My BO have a splash color like that.

 

[awheel11]

very pretty girls

. Someone please correct me if i'm wrong (which is likely

), but it kind of seems like in the picture of the legs, they look a little rough. Maybe scaly leg mites? Are the scales raised up and rough looking at all Ravenstorm? It might be just the picture, too lol.

 

[thefishery]

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I was wondering why nobody else mentioned this or if I was the only one that noticed.

 

[StormyMoon]

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I was wondering why nobody else mentioned this or if I was the only one that noticed.

I noticed it on #5 but not the others so much I thought the legs are suppose to be shiny , maybe just under the weather but I had no idea that was leg mites.....
I will know what to look for if that ever happens to mine because it was mentioned.

 

[RavenStorm]

It's one of the reasons I've kept them in quarantine actually. I'm worried about it getting over to my older girls. I tossed on Vaseline on the two with bare legs, not sure how I'm supposed to deal with scale mites on feathers legs and feet. It could be the weather and the previous owners lack of chicken smarts though, the weather has been warm (mid 90's) for a month and has been breaking the 100's daily for the past week with the air going from bone dry one day to Amazon jungle-like humidity the next. When I showed up to get the girls the owners, who no longer live at that house and I doubt the visited the hens every day, had no food out and the one water dish was green with algae and had one a bare amount of water at the bottom of the dish that I doubt they could wet their beaks in. I've been giving them vitamins and electrolytes to combat any dehydration they must have gone through, but the legs are still like that so I'm wondering about leg mites.

 

[RavenStorm]

I went out and shot a pic of the uncertain chicken #4's legs for comparison, and hopefully to help with the id.

 

[awheel11]

Yup that looks like leg mites. Good job with the vaseline, i've heard dipping legs in cooking oil also helps. It's a little messy. I've actually got the same problem at the moment and am using ivermectin tomorrow to hopefully completely get rid of the buggers. This should probably be a last resort though because there's an egg withdrawal period and can potentially harm them if overdosed and such so i'm hoping all goes well for me

good luck!