ID this hen?

[ranchhand]

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Why does being in Spain mean "she's likely a mutt or something else"??? Other countries have plenty of pure breeds and most have been around a lot longer than the APA. In my opinion that was a rude and uncalled for remark.

As speckledhen said, there are many breeds overseas that we don't have here. I'll be checking in to see if she is identified definitively, es una gallina muy bonita.

 

[Treegod]

I hate to say it (it is a rude generalisation after all) but it's not so incorrect what Illia said. All the flocks that I have seen that were personal (not commercial) have been mixed flocks, including mine. I've been to pet shops and markets (gypsy markets) where only a few birds are pure bred.

In general it's true, there are a lot of mutts here. At the same time "in general" doesn't account for everything.

Anyway, who's to say there's anything wrong with mutts?

"es una gallina muy bonita."

Sí, tienes razón.

I don't know if I can ID her definitively, but I'm fairly confident about what people are saying about speckled Sussex and Ancona.

Someone suggested there's something "Leghorn" about this hen. I read up in a book (written in Spanish) that the Ancona resembles the Leghorn: "La Ancona guarda un curioso parecido con la Leghorn, y de hecho sigue en pie el debate acerca de si debería clasificarse como miembro de esa raza."

Which translates roughly as "The Ancona has a curious similarity with the Leghorn, and in fact the debate carries on whether it can be counted as the same breed." I don't know who's debating or why, but apprently there's a debate about it all

I'm looking at a picture of an Ancona hen and it's what Hazel might be if she didn't have any brown bits.

I'm also interested by the fact that one of my cockerels probably has the same sort of breeding even though I bought them in two separate circumstances.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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Sorry, I meant to say splash.
I have flame Jaerhons and that stuck in my head.

 

[Cowgirl71]

I would guess Ancona crossed with... something!

 

[kentuckysilkies]

In Europe there is a brown variety of Ancona. I am not saying this hen is one, but it is a possibility. She looks young so head and comb could change a lot with age. I definitely do not think she is a Sussex mix; everything except the coloration is wrong for a Sussex.