I’m Wondering What My Rescue Hens May be 🤔Please take a look!

[EmmaRainboe]

Hi chicken lovers! So as I’ve been studying my white hen, she actually doesn’t seem to be a White Bresse cuz the feather style is different and the weight comparison and face doesn’t look similar. This is so hard lol, I wonder if people can have chicken DNA tests like they do for mix-breed dogs .

I've tried to find out if they do breed test before, but only came to the conclusion that they don't because there are so many breeds, and a lot of the breeds were made from other breeds so it's hard to know what breed a bird is. Though I could be wrong, that's just the conclusion I came to.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I’m wondering if anyone might know the breed of these two chickens I have been raising.

My orange hen is about 4-5years now, is small like a bantam so I thought she could be a mix of a buff Orpington and a bantam of some sort but she has black streams around her neck and blackish tail so I’m not sure what she truly is. She’s definitely nice and not afraid of people, so that kind of resembles an orp.

And for my second hen, I recently got her in July and she hasn't laid one egg that I’ve seen yet. But now that her comb and earlobes are turning more red and I’ve recently been seeing a light brown egg in the next box, I think she might have just started laying! That must mean she’s probably just about 6-9 months old. I think she might be a White Orpington because she isn’t a leghorn or a Cornish or meat chicken. I thought either a white Orpington or a white Wyandotte but Wyandotte’s have rose or pea combs and mine doesn’t so most likely might be an Orpington?

Let me know what you guys think!

The white hen looks like a white Orpington to me. The other hen is probably a mix of mixes, which could include Orpington, dorking, and/or even Japanese bantam.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Sorry late reply but yeah the chicken slaughterhouse that I’ve always gone to rescue chickens, it actually isn’t just a slaughterhouse for just meat chickens, it’s almost all kinds of breeds, I’ve mainly seen R.I.R. And Black S.L. Chickens there, often chickens were all ages from pullet to old age. The white hen stood out from the group she was in, which were all black chickens with black skin. Surprisingly these chickens weren’t caged and roamed free in a building and people had to catch them if they wanted to buy them alive or to cull them. Not sure if those were ayem chemani chickens with her but looked similar. Sadly, I’m guessing it’s the chickens that farmers don’t need anymore or some sort because all of the chickens I’ve gotten from there were different breeds. But yes, I looked into the White Bresse Chicken, it might very well be that or a mix! I think you just solved my case!

It sounds like a live poultry market?

 

[JedJackson]

The buff one is a mixed breed. Her beak and legs are yellow, so she is not a first generation Orpington cross. She has very short legs, which makes me think she might have so Japanese bantam in her ancestry.

The white one looks most like a white Jersey giant. Orps would have white legs, rocks would have yellow legs, so not those breeds. Definitely not a production meat breed, either. She might well be a cross.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

The buff one is a mixed breed. Her beak and legs are yellow, so she is not a first generation Orpington cross. She has very short legs, which makes me think she might have so Japanese bantam in her ancestry.

The white one looks most like a white Jersey giant. Orps would have white legs, rocks would have yellow legs, so not those breeds. Definitely not a production meat breed, either. She might well be a cross.

White Jersey giants would have willow legs with yellow foot bottoms. This hen has slate legs with white foot bottoms. Though less common, white orpingtons can have slate legs, especially if they aren’t well bred. Though I guess she could be a white australorp instead.