I’m the only one like me!

[Lacy Duckwing]

"Chicken teeth". Those would be the things on the roof of the chicken's mouth. There's probably a better term for those, but that's what some call those.
If she's losing weight as a lack of those, you might need to step in and help feed her a small food to liquid diet. If she's not losing weight, she'll probably be fine.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

You said they came from Cackle Hatchery? Here's a picture from their catalog:

Splash Sumatra is what you have.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Scroll down to the bottom of this article for another picture: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/sumatra-blue.47405/

 

[eas2]

View attachment 2720293Speckled girl is the only one of her kind from a mixed rare chick order last fall.
She has a pea comb, no feathers on her legs or feet, all her teeth are missing, she has dark gray legs, and is VERY vocal.
Any ideas?

Maybe a Swedish Flower Hen…some are black/gray with white

 

[eas2]

Scroll down to the bottom of this article for another picture: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/sumatra-blue.47405/

 

[canne50]

Do i quallify as a rare breed now?

Love it!

 

[canne50]

What color eggs do you get?
And what other kinds of hens do you have?

We might be able to figure out enough about her egg color to help identify her breed.



Their Splash Sumatra looks a bit like her, but your hen has very white earlobes while the Sumatra in the photo has very red earlobes, so maybe not.

Your hen's comb has me puzzled. I can't decide whether it's a pea comb, a rose comb, or a single comb that is all crinkled up. I usually pay a lot of attention to combs when trying to identify chicken breeds, but the comb of yours has me completely stumped!

I get eggs from white to brown and green to blue.
I keep a mixed breed coop hoping that the good traits may be passed on.
I have a splash Cochin rooster and since June a new rooster with a very sad crow a black copper Marans. He came with some sisters so I’m rethinking my mixing and may try to breed them pure. No eggs from these or the six Welspring pullets, or the five Colombian light Brahma’s.
The rest of my girls are these: bantams; 2 white silkie girls; one red frizzle; one cross a black silkie mix; and Brownie who is tiny and brown speckled like some English game hens. Standards are: several amerucana layers; red comets (2); one black laced golden Wyandotte; one buff Cornish.
This girl has the feather markings of the Erminette, with gray legs of an Easter egger, no extra toes or feathered feet. Today I noticed for the first time ‘she’ has regular spurs about 1 1/4” long, so…what began as a single pea comb is now a full rose comb. It, he or she, does not crow.
Also, it has no dentures, now so the other hens spit their teeth out, too. The only teeth we see now is an occasional egg tooth on a newly hatched chick.
I’m not kidding about its attributes except for the teeth thing!
I’ve looked at the suggestions posited here, but IT does not match any of them… The Erminette seems to have yellow legs. I thought it’d possibly be a splash Marans, but IT is a much smaller stature compared to the ones in the coop. IT is more like the black laced golden Wyandotte. Now, with the spurs appearing, I’m really confused.
Could IT be a splash Easter egger without the beard?

 

[canne50]

Thank you, but not the Sumatra though they are similar.

 

[canne50]

You said they came from Cackle Hatchery? Here's a picture from their catalog:
View attachment 2903933
Splash Sumatra is what you have.

They do have the same color legs and appear to be about the same build, but IT now has spurs, a large rose comb, doesn’t and never has crowed at over one year old. None of my chicks in that batch were white like that one.
Who knows??? Maybe IT is a rare throwback from all the crossbreeding that’s going on at hatcheries???
I’ll let IT be whatever IT wants to be and in the spring I’ll put IT in ITS own pen to see if IT lays eggs or not and if so, what color, too.
Thanks for all the fun folks! I’ll update you all when I learn more.

 

[NatJ]

I get eggs from white to brown and green to blue....
The rest of my girls are these: bantams; 2 white silkie girls; one red frizzle; one cross a black silkie mix; and Brownie who is tiny and brown speckled like some English game hens. Standards are: several amerucana layers; red comets (2); one black laced golden Wyandotte; one buff Cornish.

Sounds like fun!
But I see why you don't know what color eggs IT lays!

what began as a single pea comb is now a full rose comb.

Pea comb and rose comb are caused by different genes. One cannot turn into the other.

But obviously her comb did look like one, and later look like the other, which leaves us not knowing for sure what comb type she has (which means it's not very helpful for sorting out her breed.)

[Sumatras] do have the same color legs and appear to be about the same build, but IT now has spurs, a large rose comb, doesn’t and never has crowed at over one year old.

I am sure IT is not a male Sumatra. The males have extra-long tails, but the females do not, and neither does IT. So female Sumatra might be a possibility.

Females of any breed can grow spurs, although they are more common in some breeds than others.

None of my chicks in that batch were white like that one.

Your chicken looks like a splash, but splash chicks are usually pretty light in color, so that is another puzzle about IT.

in the spring I’ll put IT in ITS own pen to see if IT lays eggs or not and if so, what color, too.

You might be able to tell if IT is laying by checking the vent & pubic bones.

There's an article here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/

The basic idea is that a chicken who is not laying has a small vent that looks dry and puckered, with the tips of the pubic bones right under the vent and close together (they feel like two little bumps.) A laying hen has a larger vent that looks moist and stretchy (so an egg can come out), and the tips of the pubic bones are much further apart and also further below the vent. Of course a chicken that is not laying could be a rooster, a chick, or a hen that is not laying for some reason (broody, molting, taking the winter off). But any chicken that IS laying must be an adult female