Help Me Identify My Chooks Please

[Finding Fifth]

Hi, I am new to chickens and inherited 5 just before Christmas. Two of them came without passports and so I would like to know what breeds they could possibly be. We live in Australia.

Both are nearly 12 months old.

Our Rooster - lovely temperament and nice to the hens





Our hen

She is a delight and lays large slightly pointy light brown eggs.





Thanks for any help.

Fiona

 

[sevenbabychicks]

Your roo might be a brown leghorn/barred rock cross... and the hen a sex-link?

 

[Finding Fifth]

ooo I'd better go check those breeds out. Are they available in Australia? Thanks

 

[hdowden]

leghorn
black australorp

 

[Finding Fifth]

Ok if Obama is an Australorp can she be on the little side? and have red/orange eyes? She does have a blue/green shimmer to her neck feathers.

 

[gryeyes]

Ummm, Obama could be what we call a "black sex-link," abbreviated as BSL. She kinda looks like my Greta, but with less brown. Because a black Australorp is much more solid black; I have two BAs in my flock and neither have brown in their feathers.

 

[Finding Fifth]

Oh yes she does have brown tinge to her feathers that I hadn't really noticed. I will check out photos of that breed then. Thank you.

 

[Finding Fifth]

Ok I am treating her for scaly legs (need advice on this too) but noticed that her legs are pinky/grey with black patches.


My son just loves her.

 

[NosiphoChooks]

Yay I was going to guess leghorn for the first one! Silver Macgregor is a great name for a rooster. Sorry can't help with the hen but beautiful birds

 

[Finding Fifth]

Her previous owner told me that Obama is an Australorp x Lohman Brown. She has gained weight and grwon beautiful plumage since the January 2013 photo.