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[kabhyper1]

Oh and then there's this little beauty... She is one of the three that just showed up outta nowhere.

We have one like her. Leghorn mixes tend to have black spots. Ours is leghorn/ australorp.

 

[racinchickins]

Brad, I don't know I looked they the breeds on this site and she looks to me like she might have some type of Game bird in her and maybe white leghorn. I don't know. I'm going to name her "dazzle" cuz she sure Dazzles me.
RacinChickens, she has ALL grey feet including the bottoms. I was kinda leaning toward Australorp on her but the legs n feet thru me.

The ideal for JG's (and Java's) is yellow bottoms on the feet. The same goes with white on the bottoms for Australorps. So it could one or the other, but since the other two seem to be mixed breeds, I'd lean towards her being a mix also. If she stays the same size as the other chickens, call her an Australorp mix. If she gets really big, then I'd call her a JG mix.

Either way, your getting eggs from her, which is more than I can say for most of my ungrateful flock of on strike she-heathens.

 

[hanakimi]

The ideal for JG's (and Java's) is yellow bottoms on the feet. The same goes with white on the bottoms for Australorps. So it could one or the other, but since the other two seem to be mixed breeds, I'd lean towards her being a mix also. If she stays the same size as the other chickens, call her an Australorp mix. If she gets really big, then I'd call her a JG mix.

Either way, your getting eggs from her, which is more than I can say for most of my ungrateful flock of on strike she-heathens.

racinchickins; That is a funny description of chickens

lol but it feels true lately as with my flock of 8 hens I'm only getting 1-2 eggs a day or on some days no eggs.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Chicken feed recalled! Says it was sold in southern Indiana.
http://www.cargill.com/feed/poultry-feed-recall/

Did it say that it had too much calcium? I have gotten their all flock in the past but of course it is long long gone. If it was too little calcium there would not be a big issue as long as oyster shell was offered.

 

[minmin1258]

I'm going to have to call her a JG cross then because she and her identical twin sister are huge compared to my other birds. That is they are when they are fully feathered. They are in molt right now so are looking kinda puny compared to whats normal for them.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

racinchickins; That is a funny description of chickens

lol but it feels true lately as with my flock of 8 hens I'm only getting 1-2 eggs a day or on some days no eggs.

I am not getting very many eggs either. I have around 30 (that have previously laid), and around 15 that could start anytime (but I am sure they will hold off until spring), then some really young pullets but they are not going to be affecting my egg count anytime soon. today I got 3 eggs, day before that 6, they following days before lucky to get 3 many days I got none.

 

[minmin1258]

Oh and UPDATE: Big Momma is doing much better!!! She and Sassy are back in with the other girls, re-establishing their place in the pecking order. I'm so glad she pulled through that! I hope it isn't a yearly thing for her to go into molt that long and hard...she may not make it next year. : (

 

[minmin1258]

Kab: does yours have those large fanned tail feathers too? That's why I said it looks like could be Game fowl of some kind. That and the body size n shape. She's really tall and skinny!

 

[minmin1258]

This is Big Momma and Sassy

 

[kabhyper1]

She lives with my mother in law now, but yes she does. They were more fanned before her first molt. Yours looks young. It could be a game fowl/ leg horn cross. I know EE white leghorn produces White with black spots also.