Have white earlobes but lay brown!

[crash0330]

Can you huys help me determine the breed or breeds of my little hen, I hatched her out of eggs I bought from a guy thought they'll all be pure bred but turns out maybe they aren't after all.
She's red but has kind of a double penciled pattern on her feather barely noticeable but its there!

 

[technodoll]

That gorgeous hen has red earlobes, so it's normal that she lays brown eggs

 

[Desert Rooster]

she looks like a RIR

 

[PotterWatch]

She probably has a white egg-layer in her ancestry, but her lobes aren't the straight white that a leghorn or other white-layer will have so it isn't too surprising that she is laying brown eggs.

 

[Illia]

Looks like a Production Red x Brown Leghorn.

Often you can indeed cross a white layer with a brown layer and get a brown egg laying bird with white dusted earlobes.

Also, the earlobe rule doesn't always apply. Penedesencas have white earlobes and lay very dark brown eggs.

 

[crash0330]

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Yeah the're not 100% white but she always has more white on her earlobes then red.

 

[crash0330]

Do you guys think maybe a Game X Production red would be possible. Im thinking cuz I also hatched out what I thought it was a Game Silver Duckwing out of the same batch of eggs, and she also lays brown. Thats her

 

[Minniechickmama]

I too thought Brown Leghorn at first, or maybe some Welsummer in her?