I cannot figure this hen out! Help!

[karlyjordan86]

This pretty girl is the sweetest chicken, always wants to be right next to you (including my toddler!) and let's you pick her up, always. She was grabbed as a reddish chick out of a "ornamental mix" sold at Murdoch's. I feel like the chicken expert and can always answer my own questions but this girl is stumping me! Single comb, flops over, white earlobes, yellow legs, reddish coloring with yellow and black in neck feathers and black tips on her tail. Not thin like a leghorn. Built like a golden sexlink but obviously the coloring is way off. Not to mention her comb and earlobes. She lays a olive green, almost brown egg. Any ideas?

 

[LilJoe]

She looks like a leghorn...

Maybe a leghorn mix?


Are you sure the green/olive egg is hers?

 

[SafeHaven]

Non what so ever but boy, she is sooo beautiful

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

She's an olive egger, which are mixed breeds.

 

[karlyjordan86]

She looks like a leghorn...

Maybe a leghorn mix?


Are you sure the green/olive egg is hers?

100% positive. I literately just watched her lay the egg pictured. I kept waiting for a white egg because of her earlobes. So surprised to see the egg color. I heard that mixed breeds tend to lay olive colored eggs? Maybe she's a mix. Leghorn and maybe RIR?

 

[Gray Farms]

Crossbred. Maybe a Legbar cross

 

[LilJoe]

100% positive. I literately just watched her lay the egg pictured. I kept waiting for a white egg because of her earlobes. So surprised to see the egg color. I heard that mixed breeds tend to lay olive colored eggs? Maybe she's a mix. Leghorn and maybe RIR?

https://www.google.com/search?clien...Lts3WAhXmxVQKHRu0DCsQxA0IMDAA&biw=360&bih=615

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https://www.google.com/search?clien...4&ved=0ahUKEwj5wtDUts3WAhVF0FQKHUK8CU4Q-BYIJQ


= Olive Egger




(Penedenca X Cream Legbar) ?

 

[sourland]

Gray farms may very well be correct. Look as that of a 'dark' light brown leghorn, but egg color indicates DNA from a blue or green egg layer ancestor.

 

[karlyjordan86]

https://www.google.com/search?clien...Lts3WAhXmxVQKHRu0DCsQxA0IMDAA&biw=360&bih=615

X


https://www.google.com/search?clien...4&ved=0ahUKEwj5wtDUts3WAhVF0FQKHUK8CU4Q-BYIJQ


= Olive Egger




(Penedenca X Cream Legbar) ?

Yeah, that's a good guess!! I thought for sure she was a Welsummer because I tried to identify her as a chick and that was the closest resemblance. Still looks pretty close! Egg color throws it all off.