Is she an Australorp - White eggs?

[CityClucks]

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Oooh..."beetling"...love learning new words. Thanks Davaroo.

 

[#1California Chick]

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Oooh..."beetling"...love learning new words. Thanks Davaroo.

Me, too!!

Is "beetling" a term used by people that show their birds?


Cindy

 

[SussexInSeattle]

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She's quiet, shy, and doesn't lay every day - 'bout 3-4 a week.

Thanks all!

Looks like I was way off on the ancona guess, seems all I can find are pictures of them with white in the feathers. Still researching....

 

[beefy]

i'd say black minorca is a pretty swell guess.

 

[Davaroo]

#1California Chick :

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Oooh..."beetling"...love learning new words. Thanks Davaroo.

Me, too!!

Is "beetling" a term used by people that show their birds?


Cindy​

It is now!

Seriously, that's the "official" term. Use it in good health.

 

[Mahonri]

 

[EweSheep]

Black Minorca or Black Leghorn but thats my guess due to her comb, I figured the Minorcas would flop very heavily over to the side while the Leghorn isnt much so.

Maybe a DNA test will reveal what she is LOL

 

[corancher]

She could be Andulusians. She looks a lot like one and the flighty thing sure sounds like them.

 

[digitS']

I'd like to agree with the idea that she doesn't have too much of an Australorp look but . . .

I've had flocks of Australorps several times over the years. I've always thought of their eggs as "light brown."

This year, I have 2 Aussies and one lays what I think of as a typical egg. The other has a much darker egg and it is sometimes speckled a little. The one with the lighter egg has "nearly" white ear lobes. I can't really remember what color ear lobes they had in the past . . . not my focus when looking at a chicken, I guess

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What I'm wondering about is a tendency to mix breeds on some breeder farms. Just being suspicious . . .

Steve

 

[CityClucks]

I took Penny the Minorca-maybe to her new home today. She will live with 3 silkie hens and 1 silkie rooster, 3 spangled hamburgs hens (those are pretty!), 2 barred rocks hens and one RIR hen. I hope she will be okay. She will win the biggest comb contest every time!

Hard to lose the last of my first little flock of three, but I didn't think she'd be happy being the only cluck at my place.

Thanks all for your help letting me know what breed she might be. I read that the Minorca is also called the "red-faced black chicken" and she sure fits that description. I'm looking forward to starting over with more peeps in March!