Iowa Blue Hen?

[Futuregreenefarm]

I am completely new to chickens. Always wanted some but waiting for bigger property we own and will build on. However, we recently had a Mama hen come into our current yard with 12 baby chicks. After some research, I believe she is an Iowa Blue Hen. After further research and comparing pictures of baby chicks, some of them strongly resembled black copper maran chicks and there is a rooster in our neighbor that's the spitting image of a BCM rooster. We have now aqcuired a coop, though small and the hen has taken to the house and goes in every night with her chicks. Don't know who owns her (have tried to find out) but I would like to keep a couple of the chicks. Any idea what kind of chicks they may turn out to be? I know they are mixed and this may be a dumb question (I am new to this), but would they be what y'all call a sex-link? Thank you

 

[cstephens1987]

Such a cute little family ( sans the deadbeat rooster)

 

[piyo piyo]

I'm not good at identifying breeds, but the sex-link trait depends on the mix the chickens are. So you would need to know the parents in order to know if they're sex links.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Looking at the mother, and not knowing what the father was, the chick's can't be sex linked.
That said, does the hen have a pea comb, or a single comb? It looks like a pea from the pics. If it is in fact a pea comb, then this chicken isn't an Iowa Blue as they have single combs.
Does she have feathered legs? how big is she?

 

[Gray Farms]

She doesn't look like an Iowa Blue to me. Chicks are crossbreds and won't be sexlinked.

 

[Futuregreenefarm]

Looking at the mother, and not knowing what the father was, the chick's can't be sex linked.
That said, does the hen have a pea comb, or a single comb? It looks like a pea from the pics. If it is in fact a pea comb, then this chicken isn't an Iowa Blue as they have single combs.
Does she have feathered legs? how big is she?

Hey thanks everyone for replying. I honestly don't know the different combs. I'm including a close up of her and a pic (best I could get anyways) of the rooster that I believe is the father. And a body shot of her. She does not have feathered feet, however, a couple of the chicks do have feathered feet. I was just wondering about the sex link as I will need to re-home several of them and hoping to try to tell roosters from hens. It's fine with me if she is or isn't Iowa Blue. I think she is beautiful either way and I think she will stay with us if we don't find her owner. However, I hope I don't give away the hens and keep a bunch of roosters lol

 

[cstephens1987]

Kinda looks like a rose comb from these pics

 

[Frazzemrat1]

what color are her legs? she looks like an easter egger to me. I think she's some sort of cross.

 

[Futuregreenefarm]

Thanks for your help. Her legs are grey. Not black but definitely dark grey and very shiny. A couple of the chicks have her legs and some have legs with the bottoms orange and the tops black. I wish to goodness I could get ahold of the chicks to post pics. I feel like some of them are looking like roosters already just from what I have seen on this site and 4 are already chest bumping or sparring off. I am sure they probably are a mix. How many roosters would you say on average would come out of a flock of 12 chicks?
Thanks again.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Thanks for your help. Her legs are grey. Not black but definitely dark grey and very shiny. A couple of the chicks have her legs and some have legs with the bottoms orange and the tops black. I wish to goodness I could get ahold of the chicks to post pics. I feel like some of them are looking like roosters already just from what I have seen on this site and 4 are already chest bumping or sparring off. I am sure they probably are a mix. How many roosters would you say on average would come out of a flock of 12 chicks?
Thanks again.

Chest bumping isn't a male behavior. Its a pecking order behavior.
At this point, I think the hen is a mix as well.