Green legged chicken

[birdsrfun]

I have several hens with green legs and feet..so glad to hear they are not sick ...will the eggs be colored/

What kind of chickens do you have?

 

[catschwegel]

not really sure..i recently bought this property and the chickens were abandoned here..i have a beautiful mostly white rooster with what I call a fancy tail that grows real long an pretty..they are all adorable however! we have slowly but surely been winning over their hearts..

 

[Glor]

Did you keep this one? I just hatched some and I have one that looks like your picture here with legs and feet getting greener.

I forgot did you mention wether or not you or your hen hatched them?

I know her (I hope her) dad half Barred Rock and RR (or maybe black andalusia) but leaning more to the RR.

And her mom could be a barred rock or RR or something like her dad..

Love to see what she looks like grown up

 

[kat riley]

I have the same chicken , I have two that have really green legs . I bread a red sex link with a pure white bannam rooster , my baby looks just like the one posted on the site , is something wrong with my chic ?

 

[abbey21]

Hey! I know this was a post from years ago, but did you ever figure out what type of bird she was? And what color eggs she laid? My Annie looks identical to this! I was told she was a BO but she has the same color legs. Thanks!

 

[SuQMar]

I have a red laced buff colored pullet with olive green legs. She's very beautiful. She a cross between a RIR roo and a Buff colored hen. Both Roo and Hen came from a batch of chicks from Tractor Supply. They belong to my neighbor across the road, she gave me 2 chicks. The other is a black laced red pullet with dark slate legs. Can't wait to see if they are in some way Easter Eggers. If not they'll make me some with my Black Ameraucana Roo.

 

[trixiep]

Large Fowl Araucana in Black Breasted Red and Silver and Golden Duckwings do indeed have willow (green) legs, per the APA SOP. Easter Eggers are simply cross breeds that carry the gene for blue eggs, and can be almost any color. Some have muffs and beards but not all.

 

[Stepnout]

Well did a google search brought me back to this old post, very helpful.
I have a mutt pullet 14 weeks old. Pea comb no wattles, no cheeks.
Had White with a few grey feathers and white legs at 6-8 weeks. Slowly the white legs have turned olive and her feathers from her beak over her eyes are turning golden. She seems built similar to my 2 EE pullets.
Can’t wait to see the eggs it will be a mystery.

 

[Wendy Case]

Here she is. Her legs are getting greener and greener. They are a lot greener than they show in this picture. Not the slate, dark color, kinda like a grass green or a blue green.

My Ameraucana has willow green colored legs and has a beautiful color green egg. I read up on this leg coloring and it's actually crossed with an RIR or BR somewhere down the breeding line.

 

[Arbutus Peregrine]

Green legs is simply the visual effect of yellow skin being mixed with another set of leg pigment to create the "green". The same leg pigment on a white skinned chicken creates blue legged chicken.

So.. mixing certain breeds almost inevitably results in green legged birds. An Araucana or Ameraucana (slate/ blue legs so they have the "leg pigment" plus white skin) mixed with RIR or BR or anything with yellow skin will inevitably result in green legged chicks either in the cross or somewhere down the line.

Never thought about this until now, it does seem to be very hard to come up with a breed allowing for green legs in the standard.. Interesting. Wonder why that is? (tiki is correct as for some Modern colors allowing for green legs). I quite like the look of green legs too..

Green legs are also common in Old English or pit game stock, again due to the leg pigmentation and yellow skin genes being widely present in these birds. Many backyard mixes out of miscellanous breeds can have several green leggers.

Leg color is completely independent of egg color.

I’ve got a Dutch with green legs who is the sweetest bird! Do her green legs mean she is from a cross with another breed like OEGB?